Photos: Easter. Gorilla and Tamarin monkey have baskets; Vienna, Germany, Swiss chocolates; Hong Kong; Miami

A gorilla carries an Easter basket filled with eggs and treats ...
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Fri Mar 21, 12:27 AM ET
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A gorilla carries an Easter basket filled with eggs and treats at the Cincinnati Zoo, Thursday, March 20, 2008, in Cincinnati.

(AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, ...
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Fri Mar 21, 5:50 PM ET
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In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a Red-handed tamarin examines an Easter Basket, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at the Bronx Zoo in New York. The exercise is part of the zoo's animal enrichment program as the creative keeper staff work to keep the animals in their care stimulated mentally and physically. This species gets its name because of its reddish-orange hair on its hands and feet.

(AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)


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An Easter egg installation is displayed at a Hong Kong mall ...
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Sat Mar 22, 5:15 AM ET
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An Easter egg installation is displayed at a Hong Kong mall Saturday, March 22, 2008.

(AP Photo/Lo Sai-hung)


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Ashland University professor Jeff Weidenhamer scrapes paint ...
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Fri Mar 21, 12:20 PM ET
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Ashland University professor Jeff Weidenhamer scrapes paint from plastic Easter egg toys in the chemistry lab Friday, March 14, 2008 in Ashland, Ohio. Ashland University senior Melissa Ciacchi participated in a chemistry class project to test the lead content in common Easter items sold in discount stores. The results showed that 13 of 43 Easter items had surfaces with lead paint.

(AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

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Easter eggs on display at a market on Freyung square are covered ...
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Thu Mar 20, 11:28 AM ET
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Easter eggs on display at a market on Freyung square are covered with snow the first day of spring in Vienna March 20, 2008.

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Confectioner Monika Gleim works on two EURO 2008 chocolate Easter ...
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Thu Mar 13, 7:03 AM ET
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Confectioner Monika Gleim works on two EURO 2008 chocolate Easter bunnies, symbolizing the participating nations of Italy, left, and Switzerland, right, in the confectionery store 'Beck Glatz Confiseur' in Berne, Switzerland, in this Feb. 28, 2008. Easter is on Sunday, March 23, 2008.

(AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro della Valle)

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Ute Henschel, dressed in a feast day costume of the slavic sorbs ...
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Sun Mar 16, 8:14 AM ET
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Ute Henschel, dressed in a feast day costume of the slavic sorbs minority called "burska drastwa", decorates an egg with a special colour wax technique at the open air museum of Lehde, about 110 kilometres (68 miles) south-east of Berlin March 13, 2008. The sorbs, a German minority of about 60,000 people, are mainly resident in the east German states of Brandenburg and Saxony. Germans are preparing for Easter on March 23 in which according to tradition people eat painted eggs. Picture taken March 13, 2008.

REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY)

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Adam Jarrett, dressed as the Easter Bunny, waves to passersby ...
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Tue Mar 11, 4:05 PM ET
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Adam Jarrett, dressed as the Easter Bunny, waves to passersby at Lake Champlain Chocolates in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Lake Champlain Chocolates is busy getting ready for the upcoming Easter season.

(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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In this photo released by Lindt & Sprungli, 19 month-old twins ...
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Sat Mar 22, 4:47 PM ET
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In this photo released by Lindt & Sprungli, 19 month-old twins Mikaela, left, and Tiana Tolles, of Miami Beach, Fla., hold Easter baskets Saturday, March 22, 2008, at the New York Palace Hotel, during an Easter celebration.

(AP Photo/Lindt & Sprungli, Diane Bondareff)

 

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