Often typecast as the blonde ditz, Diaz also hit the big screen opposite Tinseltown goofball Ashton Kutcher in Twentieth Century Fox's spring comedy, What Happens in Vegas.

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Subprime mortgage giant New Century had collapsed that spring.

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The driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest recorded April to June in a dramatic turnaround never documented before.

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The '"lost" photographs, thought to be missing for much of the 20th Century, were acquired by the Scott Polar Research Institute in the spring.

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Cracks started showing up in subprime mortgage lending in the spring, accompanied by the bankruptcy of some large lenders, including New Century Financial.

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