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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks Feb. 22, 2012, to the media after a Republican presidential debate among the 2012 candidates in Mesa, Ariz. (Associated Press)

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A spiced plum crisp dish is good place to start when looking for more healthy desserts. Fruit not only packs plenty of its own no-added-sugar sweetness, it also has fiber and nutrients. (Associated Press)

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The breakfast area adjacent to the kitchen shares the same flooring. It has a triple window facing the courtyard as well as a side window.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, waves to the crowd as he is introduced at the start of a Republican presidential debate among the 2012 candidates Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks Feb. 22, 2012, during a campaign rally at the Sabbar Shrine Center in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

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Dan Danner, president of the National Federation of Independent Business, said Wednesday that the NFIB's friends in the business community and on Capitol Hill initially told him his fight to overturn the new federal health care law was quixotic. “I can tell you today that most of them are no longer saying that,” he said. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Dr. Margaret Hamburg is commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks Feb. 20, 2012, at the Kent County Lincoln Day Dinner in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Associated Press)

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Members of Muhammad Ali's family arrive at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday for his 70th-birthday celebration, also a fundraiser for brain research. (Associated Press)

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Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, speaks to the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo on Feb. 20, 2012. At right is Apache Chairman and CEO G. Steven Farris. (Associated Press)

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Dr. Norman Spack of Children's Hospital Boston poses for a photograph on Dec. 12, 2011. Spack is author of one of the reports in the journal Pediatrics about teens and children who insist they were born the wrong sex and are requesting body-altering treatments. (Associated Press/Children’s Hospital Boston)

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**FILE** Students try samples of AeroShot, an inhalable caffeine, from a lipstick-sized canister on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston. The FDA will review the safety and legality of the advertised dietary supplement. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Singer Whitney Houston arrives Oct. 28, 2006, at the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Associated Press)

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that self-insuring religious employers will be exempted from a contraception coverage mandate. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. joined her Tuesday for the release of a health care fraud and abuse control program report. (Associated Press)

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Dale Knupp of La Plata, Md., has begun hunting for the seasonal run of yellow perch. When the water temperature rises enough to induce the female perch to move upstream, the males follow. (Gene Mueller)

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L.A. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter says it is not unusual that Whitney Houston's medical providers have been subpoenaed to provide records on her. (Associated Press)

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Matthew Huron, owner of two medical-marijuana dispensaries and an edible-marijuana company in Denver, pays his bills with money orders. That's because processing transactions or investments with pot money puts federally insured banks at risk of federal drug-racketeering charges. Mr. Huron's business is cash-only. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outline the main areas of proposed defense spending cuts during a Jan. 26, 2012, news conference at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

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In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 photo, Caroline Swain poses for photographs with her sons Max, left, 10, and Luke, 9, at their home in Rayleigh, England. Swain was diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant with Luke. She had her left breast and many lymph nodes removed and had to wait until her fetus was 12-weeks-old before starting chemotherapy. Researchers have encouraging news for women who have cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)