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**FILE** People wait to talk with potential employers Dec. 12, 2011, at a job fair in New York sponsored by National Career Fairs. (Associated Press)

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Rosalia Adhiambo, 52, and grandniece Emily, 5, both of whom are HIV positive and who share one meal a day that Mrs. Adhiambo, a widow, gets for free from a medical clinic, stand outside their shack in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Then-Sen. Ben Nelson announces in 2011 that he will not seek a third term in Congress. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Dozens voice their concerns about proposed budget cuts in the Medicaid system during a rally at the State House in Augusta, Maine, on Dec. 14, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh wants permission to travel to the U.S. for medical treatment. (Associated Press)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, Chantal Guerin, a 46-year-old accountant and mother of three, displays a breast implant made by Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, that was removed from her left breast, during an interview with The Associated Press in Paris. Guerin had her left breast removed after cancer and had PIP implants put in both breasts. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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Visitors are reflected next to a Christmas tree on the rain-streaked Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Miriam Udel leads a song in Yiddish at Emory University in Atlanta. "The generation that passively knows Yiddish is dying out. There are treasures that need to be preserved because we'll lose access to them if we let Yiddish die," she says. (Associated Press)

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River guide Andy Andrzejewski hoists a bass taken from the Occoquan River. (Gene Mueller/The Washington Times)

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This is Michael Graham's 22nd year as the Santa at Tyson's Corner Center where, from Thanksgiving to December, he can be seen greeting children and some young adults during the holiday season, Tyson's Corner, VA, Wednesday, December 14, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Legendary Syrian assassin Altair takes care of a Crusader in the video game Assassin's Creed Revelations.

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Washington Capitals veteran forward Mike Knuble was a healthy scratch on Thursday against the Winnipeg Jets. It was the first time he's been scratched for performance reasons since the 2002-03 season. (Associated Press)

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Actor Gary Oldman is shown in a scene from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson's new screen adaptation of the John le Carre novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted from a security vehicle to a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., on Dec. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta greets members of the Libyan delegation on the tarmac during his arrival in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

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ON THEIR OWN: Iraqi army soldiers train with an M1 Abrams tank, purchased from the U.S., during an exercise in Baghdad.

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President Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the campus in Washington on Dec. 15, 2011, where he announced action to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for in-home care workers. (Associated Press)

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Dan Johnson uses a hands-free device to talk on a cellphone Dec. 14, 2011, while driving in San Diego. Johnson, an operations manager, uses his cellphone while driving frequently for business. (Associated Press)

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Indian patients receive intravenous saline solution during treatment in a hospital in Diamond Harbour, India, near Kolkata, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, after drinking tainted liquor. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

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** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center right) walks across the apron with Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III (center left), commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, after arriving in Baghdad on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Mr. Panetta was participating in ceremonies marking the end of the U.S. military mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)