How to restore contacts & bookmarks from Time MAchine?

OSX Lion 10.7.5 - iMac mid 2011 running Time Machine
Today I enabled photo stream on Icloud resulting destroying (getting an old version) my bookmarks & contacts.  How do I restore from Time Machine?
Thank you.
Dan from New York

Others have reported that problem. Post that question in the Time Machine forum as it may be more TM related that iPhoto.

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