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** FILE ** This mouse was produced from stem cells coaxed from skin tissue of adult mice and then reprogrammed. Two teams of Chinese scientists have made a major advance in the development of a new kind of stem cell that doesn't involve destroying embryos. (AP Photo/Nature, Dr. Qi Zhou)

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NOT THIS Jeremey Renner, actor; Brigadier General Loree Sutton, M.D., director of Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury; and Brandon Millet, president of the GI Film Festival answer questions from audience at a screening of The Hurt Locker. (Photo by Renae Kleckner)

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, is critical of the CBO analysis on the Democrats' health care bills. (Katie Falkenberg/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Rebecca Miller, an animal keeper at the National Zoo, brushes the teeth of Summer the seal. The seals get their teeth brushed every day with a regular toothbrush and seafood-flavored toothpaste. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS John Daigh, assistant inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs, tells lawmakers Tuesday that the findings of a review of VA medical centers “troubled me greatly.”

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getty images The Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic, which now serves as a memorial to Dr. George Tiller's death in Wichita, Kan., will be "permanently closed," the Tiller family has said.

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** FILE ** Dr. Ben Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, is pictured in 2009. (The Washington Times)

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a practicing surgeon and an on-the-ground medical reporter for CNN. (Associated Press)

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Soldiers mount up on their Humvees as the sun rises in the Mohave Desert while they prepare for a live-fire training mission at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. ** FILE **

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Bill Kristol ** FILE **

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Chesapeake Bay blue crabs (The Washington Times)

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**FILE** In this file photo originally made available by Advanced Cell Technology in 2006, a single cell is removed from a human embryo to be used in generating embryonic stem cells for scientific research.

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**FILE** In this 2008 photo, cigarettes run through one of the production lines at the General Tobacco facility in Madison, N.C. (Associated Press/Winston-Salem Journal)

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In this photo released by Chrysler Corp., a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee is shown. (Associated Press/Chrysler Corp.)

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Mike Quigley

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Clustered Gram-negative Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria are shown under a magnification of 5000X in a colorized scanning photomicrograph. (AP Photo/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Janice Haney Carr) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** Van Jones focused on green jobs, enterprise and innovation as a special adviser on the Council on Environmental Quality.

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** FILE ** Hanna Carter, 5, of Roanoke, Va., takes a dose of peanut protein from nurse practitioner Pam Steele at the Duke South Clinic at Duke University in Durham, N.C., on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Hanna is being treated for peanut allergies. A handful of children once severely allergic to peanuts now can eat them without worry after scientists retrained the children's immune systems so they're allergy-free. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)