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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney meets with Krysalis Fit CEO Jennine Hynes at Bizdom University in Detroit on Thursday. Bizdom is a business development center to help people in Michigan. It provides real-world training, mentorship and support for entrepreneurs. (Associated Press)
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Many Americans trying to sell their homes are having to make some adjustments. Nearly 25 percent of the nation's 74.5 million homeowners have negative equity in their homes, and another 25 percent are nearing that point. (Associated Press)
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An assortment of corn and seeds, as well as a lightning rod and rattle, is displayed for visitors to examine. (Associated Press)
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While the color scheme of the mudroom often is an extension of nearby rooms, some homeowners choose to make it a space in which to play with color. (Photo courtesy of Rill Architects/Kay Kim)
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Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress speaks to reporters after being released from the Oneida County Correction Facility in Rome, N.Y., Monday, June 6, 2011. Burress was released from prison after spending nearly two years behind bars on a gun charge. (AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth)
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Photograph provided by Mission New Energy Jatropha seeds yield as much as 40 percent oil that has been touted for use in diesel applications and refined into aviation-quality jet fuel.
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Trader Christopher Morie works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on June 7, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press With a courthouse in Somerset, Pa., as backdrop, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania announces he is entering the crowded field for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He criticized President Obama as having put the country on a path to moral and fiscal ruin.
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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Courts building on Monday for his arraignment proceedings on charges of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. The French economist and diplomat has said he is not guilty. (Associated Press)
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New York hotel workers jeer Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he arrives at the courthouse. "New York is the wrong place to mess with a hotel worker," said Aissata Bocum, a Ramada Inn housekeeper. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press MIT economics professor Peter A. Diamond said critics had failed to recognize the value of his expertise on the causes of unemployment in blocking his bid for a seat on the Federal Reserve board.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Apple CEO Steve Jobs, interrupting his medical leave to attend the firm's developers conference on Monday, introduces the new iCloud system, which stores user information from several devices, including iPhones and iPads, and makes sure the same data is available on all of them.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Apple CEO Steve Jobs tells the firm's developers conference on Monday the new iCloud system enables users to share songs and data among devices.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is contending with a scandal involving her chief of staff, issues about her own health and the intervention of her predecessor in a legislative issue at the same time she is managing a slowing economy and high inflation.
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Todd Allen, the lawyer for Warren and Maureen Nyerges, speaks to the media outside a Bank of America branch in Naples, Fla., while sheriff's deputies meet with the bank manager inside. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News, Eric Strachan)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs gestures to his audience during a keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 6, 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama tours Chrysler Group's Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday. "We´ve got a ways to go. Even though our economy has created more than 2 million private-sector jobs over the past 15 months and continues to grow, we´re facing some tough headwinds," he said.
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June Gregg of Bainbridge, Ohio, displays her original bankbook during her 100th-birthday celebration at the Chillicothe branch of Huntington National Bank on Tuesday in Chillicothe, Ohio. Miss Gregg's father opened a bank account for her in 1913, and she has held the same account ever since. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Former Sen. John Edwards (center) leaves the Federal Building in Winston-Salem, N.C., on June 3, 2011, with his daughter Cate Edwards (left). (Associated Press)
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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Human Services Committee Chairman Jim Graham confers with D.C. Council members about the nomination of Neil A. Stanley as director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
