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AP Photo – Jordanian boys warm themselves at a workshop during their break in Amman. Keep warm today, and remember that some people have it worse than you. On another note, whatever happened to our child labor laws? Never mind.

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GETTY PICTURES – Father of Jordanian Mahmoud Mahdi Zeidan, a Taliban fighter killed by US in Waziristan, looks on at the family’s home in Irbid Camp for Palestinian Refugees, on January 11, 2010 in Irbid, Jordan. Zeidan was a spiritual leader as well as a fighter with the Taliban and was killed whilst on an [...]

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REUTERS PHOTO: A Jordanian demonstrator steps on a picture of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak during a protest near the Egyptian embassy in Amman January 6, 2010. The demonstrators were protesting against Wednesday’s clash at the port city of Arish, 40km (25 miles) from Egypt’s border with Gaza, between Egyptian security forces and members of a [...]

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AP Photo – A boy sells pickled olives from a stall on the Amman-Jerash Highway in Jordan, Sunday, Dec, 20, 2009. Interestingly enough, Jordan produces 28,000 tonnes of olive oil a year with 24,000 tonnes consumed domestically.

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REUTERS Photo – Adnan Hadeed, a zoo keeper, kisses Warda, a five-year-old female African leopard, at the Ghamadan zoo near Amman, December 2, 2009. Also see: Laith the Lion Never been the Ghamadan zoo, but I think I should put it on my 2010 to-do list…

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AP Photo – Jordanian children wait for their turn to have a ride on a wood traditional swing during the second day of Muslim’s Eid al-Adha, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. The thing about Eid is that it’s a time when people typically spend two full days visiting each other. In Amman, they [...]

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AP Photo – A Jordanian driver removes the Parliament plates of the car of one of the Jordanian lawmakers at the Jordanian Parliament offices in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.

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AP PHOTO – Laith Shbailat, a prominent Jordanian opposition figure, is seen at a hospital in Amman Sunday Oct. 25, 2009, after he was attacked Sunday morning by unidentified assailants. Shubeilat says Sunday’s early morning attack followed a televised interview he gave to an Arab satellite channel, in which he accused the government of corruption [...]

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