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** FILE ** Dolphins swim in the Navesink River, near the Shrewsbury, in Sea Bright, N.J., on June 24, 2008. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A tip is left by a customer at Linda's Place Restaurant in St. Clair Shores, Mich., on June 19, 2008. (Associated Press)

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Photographs by John Tully/ The Washington Times Mary Carter, center, walks with her children Heather, 14, and son Justin, 8, back to board the truck after a break before heading back on the road to Pennsylvania from New Hampshire. Carter and Russell will be traveling with Carter's children for a month this summer. "It's affecting money we could send home to help the kids. To put food in their stomachs and clothes on them. To give them a life," Russell said about the rising cost of diesel and having to juggle their daily expenses.

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Above: Mobs scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, in April 1975 to escape the imminent communist takeover. Left: In April 1956, black and white passengers sit segregated on a trolley in Atlanta, despite a Supreme Court decision. Both were pivot points in U.S. history.

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Seven-year-old Dionte Lewis, from DC, cools off at the spray park of the Girard Street Park in Columbia Heights in NW Washington, D.C., Monday, June 9, 2008. Due to extreme heat, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) opens 10 outdoor swimming pools and 4 spray parks from 3 to 8 pm at DPR locations across the District today. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Sen. Jim Webb was the chief author of the 21st Century GI Bill of Rights. (The Washington Times)

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The Washington Dulles International Airport terminal, with its swooping roof and mobile lounges, is one of Mr. Saarinen's iconic architectural works.

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** FILE ** The Greystone Grill's 20-ounce rib-eye steak is cowboy-cut but well-served with broccoli. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)

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Photographs by Michael Connor / The Washington Times The Greystone Grill's cowboy cut rib-eye steak is a full 20 ounces and is served with a side of broccoli. Below: A dish of roasted bacon-wrapped sea scallops on sauteed baby spinach is enhanced by a warm citrus beurre blanc.

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Signs from the late 1800s to the present can be seen at the American Sign Museum, and a Kentucky Fried Chicken sign from the 1950s is among them (above left). (Associated Press)

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Emily Boone (right), 15, consulted with her friend Becky Harmik at the Fair Oaks Mall, but so-called millennials also help their boomer parents shop. (Erin McCracken/The Washington Times) **FILE**

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** FILE ** In this 2008 photo, faux pirates cruised Tampa's waterfront for the city's Gasparilla festival, which drew about 300,000 people. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** This file photo from October 2008 shows a coal-fired power plant in Colstrip, Mont., the state's largest producer of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. (Associated Press)

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An antique handwritten Koran is displayed inside the museum in Harar, Ethiopia, named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2006. ** FILE **

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The first light of dawn silhouettes the Katahdin Range east of Chesuncook Lake in Maine. (Associated Press)

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NOT THIS Nike sneakers are on display with a variety of quirky toys at Kickballers in Washington, DC on Saturday, August 11, 2007. (James R. Brantley/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Jesse James and others tried to rob a bank in Northfield, Minn., in 1876. Adelbert Ames was among the locals who assembled to drive off the robbers. (Historical Society of Missouri)