Images of the Day

Florida's Aury Cruz jumps for the spike against Florida State University Tuesday night in the O'Connell Center.

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Against Tennessee, Florida wide receivers Kelvin Kight, above, Carlos Perez and O.J. Small came through with big catches, taking some of the defensive focus off Taylor Jacobs.

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U.S. troops headed to West Africa on Tuesday to safeguard 100 American school children holed up in the rebel-held city after the bloodiest-ever uprising in the Ivory Coast. Frightened residents reported heavy artillery and gunfire.

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James Gandolfini stars in "The Sopranos," a hit series about a modern_day mob boss caught between responsibilities to his family and his "family."

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Crime scene investigator Deborah Elwell of the West Palm Beach Police Department, dusts a pickup truck for evidence Tuesday in Lake Worth, Fla. Five people who lived in a nearby house were killed.

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A television crew from Orlando films the site where longtime Kanapaha Botanical Gardens director Don Goodman had his arm bitten off by an 11-foot alligator Monday.

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Rep. Porter Goss, left, R-Fla., and Sen. Bob Graham, center, D-Fla., chairmen for the House and Senate Intelligence Committees' Joint Inquiry into intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, prepare to begin their hearing on Capitol Hill.

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Roxanne Quimby, owner of the all-natural cosmetics company Burt's Bees, poses Thursday, Sept. 19, 2002 at her home in Winter Harbor, Maine. Quimby has bought more than 15,000 acres for a proposed national park and is working to build a visitor center for the proposed park, which she hopes to open next summer.

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Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen looks for a receiver as he drops back to pass during his team's 44--22 win over Middle Tennessee Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002, in Lexington, Ky. Just shy of 300 pounds, the left-handed Lorenzen has Kentucky off to a 4-0 going into this week's SEC matchup against No. 7 Florida.

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