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Thai woman Nong Na holds a scorpion as she poses inside a glass room, at the start of a world record attempt at a shopping mall in Pattaya, eastern Thailand, on December 22, 2008. Nong hopes to break her own world record by staying 33 days ands nights in a glass enclosure along with 5,000 scorpions. AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT