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A heron waits to catch preys at a zoo Monday Dec. 12, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Southeast Asian leaders opened their annual summit Monday, grappling with myriad problems, from the Myanmar junta's snail-paced steps toward democracy and the bird flu to economic competition from China and India. The summit will be followed by an inaugural East Asia Summit on Wednesday when its 16 members are expected to pledge a raft of steps to prevent a possible human pandemic of bird flu that has killed 69 people in Asia since 2003. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)