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Nationals’ first baseman Adam LaRoche leads the team in homers with 23 and RBI with 71 and has contributed as much with his glove as he has with his bat. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks Aug. 6, 2012, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington after signing the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012. (Associated Press)

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One inmate at the Maryland House of Corrections in Jessup, Md. penned the words "There is freedom beyond these walls. Just Believe!" inside his cell. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Dr. Saul Levin, chief of D.C.’s Department of Health, wants an expansive HIV/AIDS awareness campaign with churches.“I believe every pastor, every priest, every minister, every rabbi, every imam wants to do good for their congregants,” he says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Sian Beilock, a University of Chicago psychologist, professor and author of the book “Choke,” looks at a brain scan from an MRI machine in the lab at the University in Chicago. Ms. Beilock studies the science behind “choking under pressure” and says the problem starts when players start worrying about the consequences of failure, what’s on the line and what others will think of them. “What messes you up is not the worries, but the overattention to detail,” she adds. (Associated Press)

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1956’s “The Man Who Never Was” is an antiquated antidote to today’s brain-dead blow-’em-ups that try to pass themselves off as spy movies.

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Allyson Felix tied for third in the 100 meters in the U.S. trials, but Jeneba Tarmoh conceded, giving Felix the spot on the Olympic team. (Associated Press)

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Donald Foster III, 49, listens Aug. 2, 2012, to a judge during his bond hearing in Lexington, S.C. Foster was charged with attempted murder for pouring bleach into water tanks used by kidney dialysis machines at a kidney dialysis center after the center suspended him from his job as an equipment technician and patient care technician, investigators said. (Associated Press)