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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Chris Viehbacher CEO of Sanofi-Aventis SA, gestures while announcing the 2008 full year result in Paris. French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA has agreed to buy Genzyme Corp. in a sweetened all-cash deal that values the U.S. biotechnology company at $20.1 billion Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, ending months of corporate haggling. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott announces his new budget during a tea party event in Eustis, Fla., on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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Mary Sullivan adopted Roger on the condition that she would not have him declawed. She said she regrets having the procedure performed on another cat, who "was in agony the whole time" before he died. (Associated Press)
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In this , Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 photo Andrei, a 2-year-old HIV-positive boy in the Ukrainian city of Cherkassy hides his face in his hands as his mother Yelena, 33 embraces him in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Ukraine has Europe's worst AIDS epidemic _ and it risks getting much worse because of drug supply cuts blamed on government corruption and official harassment of AIDS groups and HIV-infected drug users, health experts warn. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson has pleaded not guilty to a series of charges stemming from a corruption investigation. (Associated Press)
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This Jan. 2011 picture provided by the Kessler Foundation shows Dr. Jordan Grafman in West Orange, N.J. The director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Research Laboratory at the Kessler Foundation Research Center says brain rewiring - scientists call it plasticity - is driven by what a patient is learning and experiencing. (AP Photo/Kessler Foundation, Joan Banks-Smith)
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People use computers at an Internet cafe in Fuyang, in central China's Anhui province, on March 12, 2010. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 picture, Dame Elizabeth Taylor speaks during the 26th Annual Macy's Passport to Fashion gala in Santa Monica, Calif. Several movie stars, including Taylor, have suffered strokes, a reminder that money and fame can't insulate you from a health risk that much can be done to prevent, researchers reported at an international stroke conference in Feb. 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm speaks to the North Dakota House's Industry, Business and Labor Committee on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, about legislation that helps to implement a federal health care reform law in North Dakota. The North Dakota Legislature will be reviewing a series of health-care measures during its 2011 session. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)
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Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, set off a flurry of speculation about his successor after he announced that he would not seek another Senate term next year. (Associated Press)
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Wake Forest outfielder Kevin Jordan, right, speaks as his coach Tom Walter, center, and transplant surgeon Dr. Kenneth Newell look on during a news conference in at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, two days after Walter donated a kidney to Jordan. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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In this provided by Wake Forest University, Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter, right, visits with player Kevin Jordan one day after donating a kidney to Jordan at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Jordan was diagnosed last April with ANCA vasculitis, a type of autoimmune swelling disorder caused by abnormal antibodies. (AP Photo/Wake Forest University, Steve Shutt)
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In this provided by Wake Forest University, Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter, right, visits with player Kevin Jordan one day after donating a kidney to Jordan at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Jordan was diagnosed last April with ANCA vasculitis, a type of autoimmune swelling disorder caused by abnormal antibodies. (AP Photo/Wake Forest University, Steve Shutt)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Moore family shows retired Pittsburgh oncology nurse Pearl Moore, right, with her daughter Cheryl. Pearl Moore's experience watching her mother's painful cancer death persuaded her to make her own living will, and give a copy to her daughter, while she is still healthy. New guidance to cancer doctors says they need to be more candid with advanced cancer patients about when it's time for that kind of end-of-life planning, so they can better choose how to spend their remaining time. (AP Photo/Moore Family)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Moore family shows retired Pittsburgh oncology nurse Pearl Moore, right, with her daughter Cheryl. Cheryl Moore's experience watching her mother's painful cancer death persuaded her to make her own living will, and give a copy to her daughter, while she is still healthy. New guidance to cancer doctors says they need to be more candid with advanced cancer patients about when it's time for that kind of end-of-life planning, so they can better choose how to spend their remaining time. (AP Photo/Moore Family)
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Sen. Orrin G. Hatch says lawmakers should end special individual and corporate tax breaks but not to put money back into the federal government. (Associated Press)
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This screenshot made on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 shows Dr. Edward Zuckerberg's Facebook page. Dr. Edward Zuckerberg, father of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said in a radio interview Friday that Mark's early exposure to computers helped inspire his interest and expertise in technology. Dr. Zuckerberg also said he uses Facebook to promote his dental practice and spends about an hour a day on the site. He also still does Mark's "routine dental care." (AP Photo/Facebook) NO SALES; EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, under Republican fire for supporting the health care initiative in 2009, now says he doesn't want to scrap the entire law but would consider tweaking it or even repealing some of its provisions. (AP Photo)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vows that Republicans will keep revisiting the health care law in a variety of ways in an effort to modify it or repeal it.
