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A member of the Goud family administers “fish medicine” to an asthma patient in Hyderabad, India, on June 8, 2012. Started by the Bathini Goud family, the therapy is a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into a patient's throat. (Associated Press)

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The helmet of Kenyan soldier Nicholas Munyanya reads in Kiswahili "Tea in Kismayo," no doubt hoping for respite in the strategic Somali port city that African Union troops hope to wrest from the control of al-Shabab terrorists by late August. (Associated Press)

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The Napa Valley resort, Auberge du Soleil, with La Plage below, is seen in early evening in Rutherford, Calif. (Auberge du Soleil via Associated Press)

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Control a visual effects comparison of Warhoons in the iPad companion app synced to the Blu-ray release of John Carter.

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Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, a Denver psychiatrist taking over as the American Medical Association's president later this month, said not to expect chaos if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects all or part of President Obama's sweeping health care law. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Jack Reed (left), Rhode Island Democrat, and Sen. Tom Harkin (center), Iowa Democrat, meet on Capitol Hill on Wednesday with college interns as they call for action on averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for students. More than 30 million Americans are repaying student loans. (Associated Press)

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Veterans visit the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day as part of the Honor Flights program which flies U.S. veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit memorials on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Ellis Island's boarded up hospital for contagious disease ward, which opened 1909 in New York as part of the island's main hospital complex, is seen here on May 8, 2009. (Associated Press)

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Author Ray Bradbury appears at a signing for his book "Quicker Than the Eye" in Cupertino, Calif., in 1997. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta speaks on Indo-U.S. defense relations at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis in New Delhi on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)

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**FILE** Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, speaks March 8, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Michael Tobiason, Jr., of Wilmington, Del., still draws strength from his father, Michael Sr., who died of bile duct cancer nearly two years ago. Tobiason qualified for the U.S. Open in 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)