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Shawn Lockhart examines a meningitis-causing fungus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday in Atlanta. Investigators are looking into how the fungus tainted steroids produced by a Framingham, Mass., pharmacy. (Associated Press)

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Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, a tea party favorite, is facing stiff opposition in her congressional re-election campaign from Democrat Jim Graves. (Associated Press)

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Richard Lee Norris, shown after his accident and before reconstructive surgery, was injured in a 1997 gun accident, losing much of his upper and lower jaws as well as his lips and nose. (University of Maryland Medical System)

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Richard Lee Norris, shown after reconstructive surgery completed on March 20, 2012. The surgery included replacement of both jaws, teeth, tongue, and skin and underlying nerve and muscle tissue from scalp to neck. (University of Maryland Medical System)

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Richard Lee Norris, shown in September of 2012 after reconstructive surgery. (Photo/University of Maryland Medical System)

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Mourners walk Oct. 16, 2012, to Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, Pa., for former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter's funeral. Family members say Specter died Sunday of complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was 82. (Associated Press)

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Soldiers applaud as 70 D.C. Army National Guard soldiers with the 273rd military police company returning from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan are welcomed home at a ceremony held in front of the D.C. Armory, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 16, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks Oct. 16, 2012, during a rally at Automated Conveyor Systems in Lynchburg, Va. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama arrives Oct. 9, 2012, to speak at The Ohio State University Oval in Columbus, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** H. Ross Perot looks through binoculars with eyeglasses held in his teeth in May 1992 in Austin, Texas. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** H. Ross Perot, chairman emeritus of Perot Systems, gives a thumbs up Sept. 21, 2009, in Dallas during the annoucement that Dell had acquired Perot Systems for $3.9 billion. (Associated Press/Perot Systems)

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Malala Yousufzai, 14, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, is transferred Oct. 15, 2012, from a plane aboard a stretcher as she arrives at Birmingham Airport in England. Yousufzai will receive specialist medical care by doctors and nurses who are specialists in helping British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, after she was shot on a bus in front of her friends for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants. (Associated Press/David Jones)