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Georgia safety Bacarri Rambo works out for NFL football scouts during Georgia pro day, Thursday, March 21, 2013, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A Bangladeshi rescuer looks out from a hole cut in the concrete as he searches for survivors on Thursday, April 25, 2013, at the site of a building that collapsed the day before in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Fresno State safety Phillip Thomas (16) looks on during a break between plays in the third quarter of the Hawaii Bowl in an NCAA college football game Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)
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The New York Rangers celebrate Ryan Callahan's overtime goal to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes in an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, April 25, 2013. New York won 4-3. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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A Bangladeshi garment worker who soldiers said was pulled alive from the rubble reacts as he walk on his own at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. By Friday, the death toll reached hundreds of people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing.(Associated Press)
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Afghan men surround a burned bus after it collided with the wreckage of a truck that was attacked by Taliban insurgents in Maiwand district, on the highway between Kandahar and Helmand, Afghanistan, Friday, April 26, 2013. Scores of people aboard the bus were killed in the fiery crash, officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq Kandahari)
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Ministry for Emergency Situations workers and firefighters work at a site of a fire of a psychiatric hospital Friday morning, April 26, 2013. At least 38 people died in the fire in the psychiatric hospital outside Moscow late Thursday night. (AP Photo/Pavel Sergeyev)
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Chinese soldiers unload relief supplies from a helicopter in quake-ravaged Sichuan province. Saturday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least 186 and injured thousands. The military is in full control of relief and rescue, with citizen-initiated efforts to help strictly banned.
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A pond that was dry during last year's drought is full again near Sprague, Neb., on Thursday, April 25, 2013. Farmers who have spent the past several months staring at parched fields have a new problem: mud. A rainy spring has brought weeks of rains to the middle of the country, and while it hasn't completely ended the historic drought, new forecasts show it surely has helped. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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A group of San Francisco firemen make their way up a hill after a fire was contained at a multi-unit Pacific Heights building in San Francisco, April 24, 2013. Some San Francisco firefighters are raking in six-figure overtime paychecks because of staffing shortages that have department managers scheduling numerous extra shifts, a newspaper reported.
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Patrick Burke is the co-founder of the You Can Play Project, which "is dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation." (You Can Play Project)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks at Wednesday's memorial service for fallen MIT Officer Sean Collier, fatally shot during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. With bagpipes wailing, the line of mourners stretched for a half-mile.