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President Obama speaks about the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative on April 2, 2013, in the East Room at the White House. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Scottish author Iain Banks, pictured in 2004, has been diagnosed with late-stage gall bladder cancer and has just months to live. (AP Photo/Yui Mok, Press Association)

National School Shield Task Force director Asa Hutchinson speaks during a news conference at National Press Club in Washington on April 2, 2013. The National School Shield program is a framework to arm security guards in any school system who want to be part of the program. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, file photo, a pharmacist works in a lab where medicines are being produced at a Cipla manufacturing unit on the outskirts of Mumbai, India. A lawyer for healthcare activists says India's Supreme Court has rejected drug maker Novartis AG' right to patent a new version of a lifesaving cancer drug. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

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**FILE** Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks on a cell phone from a member of the audience at the Disabled American Veterans National Convention in Las Vegas on Aug. 4, 2012. (Associated Press/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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Susan Rogers, executive director of the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry, speaks during a news conference regarding the practices of Tulsa oral surgeon Wayne Harrington, at the Tulsa Health Department's James O. Goodwin Health Center in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Health officials said that thousands of Harrington's patients should undergo testing for HIV and hepatitis after officials looking into the source of a patient's viruses discovered the dentist's instruments weren't being cleaned properly. (Associated Press)