AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

North Carolina State University tree researcher John Frampton's university truck carries this license plate Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000, as he travels betw...

Jim Victor sculpts a cow out of butter in a refrigerated enclosure in the Jim Graham Building, Friday, Oct. 13, 2000, in Raleigh, N.C., on the opening...

Tyler Sharp, 5, right, of Rock Ridge, N.C., talks to the lamb he is about to show at the Jim Graham Building as part of the N.C. State Fair opening-da...

Tammy Long, a Strates Show employee, walks through the pool of water as she moves a whale decoration Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 as she prepares the Kiddi...

Japan's Miki Imai clears the bar during qualifying for the high jump at the Summer Olympics, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney. (...

Japan's Chiemi Takahashi, front left, and Yuko Kawakami, front right, compete in a first round heat of the 10000-meter race at the Summer Olympics, We...

The Japanese softball team acknowledges the applause of the audience during the medals award for softball Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2000, in Sydney. Japan lo...

Japan's Hideaki Kawamura competes in the 400-meter hurdles at the Summer Olympics, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney. (AP Photo/Dou...

Naoko Takahashi of Japan wins the women's marathon final with a new Olympic record time of 2:23:14 at the Summer Olympics Sunday, Sept. 24, 2000, at O...

Naoko Takahashi of Japan reacts to winning the women's marathon final with a new Olympic record time of 2:23:14 at the Summer Olympics Sunday, Sept. 2...

Naoko Takahashi of Japan walks through Olympic Stadium with the Japanese flag after winning the women's marathon final with a new Olympic record time...

Japanese batter Reika Utsugi (28) celebrates her two run home run during the first inning of the women's softball game against the New Zealand women's...

Japan's Koji Murofushi competes in a qualifying heat of the hammer throw at the Summer Olympics Saturday, Sept. 23, 2000, at Olympic Stadium in Sydney...

Japan's Ryoko Tamura acknowledges the crowd after winning the gold against Russia's Lioubov Brouletova in the women's 48 kg judo at the XXVII Summer G...

Actress Shirley MacLaine poses with her book

Eddie Murphy, star of the new comedy film

Actor and former Screen Actors Guild president Charlton Heston joins other SAG strikers on the picket line in front of a McDonald's restaurant in the...

Branch Davidian Clive Doyle reacts as he speaks to reporters after a ruling was announced in the Branch Davidian trial in Waco, Texas, Friday, July...

Writer Norman Mailer is seen at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena, Calif., July 13, 2000. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The entrance to the Davidian center at Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, Friday, June 23, 2000. Mount Carmel has a new chapel that was built on the site...

Actors Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar are seen through the crush of media at the arrivals of the 9th Annual MTV Movie Awards, June 3, 2...

Actors Mike Myers, left, and Verne Troyer, co-stars in

Ed Franzese, left, makes a picture of Roberta Ferrante in front of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton, N.C., Tuesday, May 16, 2000. The lighthouse...

Chef Rick Bayless poses for a photo at the Food Channel Studio in New York on May 18, 2000. Bayless' new TV cooking show 'Mexico One Plate at a Time,'...

Rev. Abraham L. Woods Jr. is shown in his office at Saint Joseph Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., May 18, 2000. A seven-year investigation that re...

Hostage rescue team equipment is seen on display Sunday, March 19, 2000, that could be used during the field test that will re-enact critical aspects...

Burchell Rhoden prepares scotch bonnet pepper, one of the main ingredients used in the making of the jerk seasoning at Walkerswood Caribbean Foods, in...

Restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, owner of Le Cirque 2000 stands inside the celebrated French restaurant, Nov. 12, 1999, New York. Le Cirque is the dining...

Final preparations were underway Thursday afternoon Oct. 14, 1999 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. as this Strates Shows emplo...

William Harper, an employee of Strates Shows, gets some shut eye Thursday afternoon Oct. 14, 1999 after putting in a 12 hour day setting up rides and...

Actress Lauren Bacall poses in a New York City rehearsal studio on Oct. 12, 1999. From the time of her 1944 film debut in

A truck drives over a bridge in downtown Kinston, N.C., Monday, Sept. 20, 1999, as the floodwaters from the Neuse River rise to the bottom of the brid...

Japan's Ari Ichihashi poses with a fan, after taking the silver medal in the Women's Marathon at the seventh World Track and Field Championships in Se...

Japan's Ari Ichihashi poses with her Women's Marathon silver medal, after the presentation ceremony at the seventh World Track and Field Championship...

Japan's Ari Ichihashi Women's Marathon silver medalist shown during the presentation ceremony at the seventh World Track and Field Championships in Se...

Shen Tong, left, Chinese dissident and pro-democracy leader during the Tiananmen Square Movement, gestures as he addresses an audience, Thursday, June...

Sanderson High School student Kevin Cochran places a two figure trash sculpture Saturday, May 22, 1999, on the grounds of the North Carolina Art Museu...

Sanderson High School art teacher Bob Rankin helps place sculpture figures made from trash and orange trash bags Saturday, May 22, 1999, next to the...

Former television anchor woman Eriko Nakamura poses during a photocall at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, Friday, May 21, 1999. (AP P...

Japanese TV-star Eriko Nakamura, arrives with a unidentified man for the screening of the film

St. Louis Cardinals' Fernando Tatis is congratulated by teammate Mark McGwire after hitting the first of two grand slam home runs in the third inning...

New Orleans Saints first-round draft pick Ricky Williams, left, checks out his New Orleans Saints jersey as coach Mike Ditka, wearing a dreadlock wig,...

Tatiana Cooley poses with her trophy after winning the 1999 Memoriad, a memory competition, Feb. 6, 1999, New York. Cooley retained her title as natio...

Japan's Naoko Takahashi closes her eyes in celebration as she wins the Women's Marathon Sunday, Dec. 6, 1998, at the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok. Taka...

Japan's Naoko Takahashi beams as she crosses the finish line of the women's marathon in the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok Sunday, Dec. 6, 1998. Takahash...

Japanese women's marathon winner Naoko Takahashi carries a Japanese national flag as she celebrates her Asian record victory in the 13th Asian Games i...

Japan's Naoko Takahashi crosses the finish line of the women's marathon in the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok Sunday, Dec. 6, 1998. Takahashi led all the...

Postmaster Mark Meyer poses for a picture at the U. S. Post Office, Sept. 9, 1998, Tenakee Springs, Alaska. Meyer, 41, left, South Dakota seeking more...

Postmaster Mark Meyer poses for a picture at the U. S. Post Office, Sept. 9, 1998, Tenakee Springs, Alaska. Meyer, 41, left, South Dakota seeking more...

Shelly Wilson, harbormaster for Tenakee Springs, left, chats with Ruth Craine, a clerk in the towns general store, Sept. 9, 1998, Tenakee Springs, Ala...