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Chinese President Hu Jintao (left) shakes hand with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner during the opening ceremony of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing on Thursday, May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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**File** Harvard President Drew Faust (left) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield speak at a news conference in Cambridge, Mass, May, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Russian leader Vladimir Putin (right) examined a proposed project last year in Tver, one of his country's poorest regions. Residents are becoming increasingly frustrated as government spending on roads and other infrastructure has dried up. (Associated Press)

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DC Entertainment has released six more titles to readers, including a contemporary take on the vintage war comic, "G.I. Combat." (DC Comics via Associated Press)

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Dan Pritchett, vice president of Marketing & Business Development for Logos Bible Software, stands behind a pair of computer monitors as he works April 9, 2009, in his cluttered office in Bellingham, Wash. (Associated Press)

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The podium stands alone onstage May 2, 2012, at the Hilton Arlington in Arlington, Va., following Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's announcement that he is suspending his 2012 presidential campaign. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is joined May 2, 2012, onstage at the Hilton Arlington in Arlington, Va., by his wife, Callista, and family members as he announces that he is suspending his 2012 presidential campaign. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks to supporters at Exhibit Edge in Chantilly, Va., on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Barges filled with coal and wells pumping natural gas give the U.S. enough fuel to export to burgeoning markets in Asia, but proposals to build a natural gas liquefaction and export plant in Maryland and coal export facilities in the Pacific Northwest have raised environmental concerns about the global use of fossil fuels. (Associated Press)