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ASSOCIATED PRESS Jenny Rodriquez, 69, leads a gathering of seniors in song during a visit to La Marqueta in New York's East Harlem neighborhood. School buses use the time between their morning and afternoon runs to transport seniors like Ms. Rodriquez to activities as part of the city's "Age-Friendly NYC" program.ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A resident of the Marion Apartments, makes use of a ramp newly constructed by the Atlanta Regional Commission project to accommodate the city's aging population. Cities across the U.S. are beginning to grapple with a fact of life in the 21st century: People are getting old, fast, and they're doing it in communities designed for the younger and more mobile.
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** FILE ** WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the High Court in London on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, for his extradition appeal hearing. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, April 14, 2010, file photo Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Ahmad Wali Karzai was killed in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
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** FILE ** Chinese Gen. Chen Bingde (left) and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony for Adm. Mullen at the Bayi Building in Beijing on Monday, July 11, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Madison Hawkins, 8, enjoys the cool water and hot sun on Monday, July 11, 2011 as she lays on the steps of The Passage in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Alex Washburn)
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Timmy Clark rehydrates with a drink in the shade after cutting a yard in Tuscumbia, Ala. (AP Photo/TimesDaily,Daniel Giles)
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Mike Cox, of Sherman, Ill., positions a large fan and specially designed water hoses to cool his Standardbred trotting filly named Master Charge It, Monday, July 11, 2011, at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ill. Around the country temperatures have been reaching 100 degrees. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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China's Gen. Chen Bingde (right) and Adm. Mike Mullen, who is on a four-day visit to China, disagree on the propriety of American naval exercises with its allies on the South China Sea. (Associated Press)
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Rescuers stand near the sheet-covered bodies of some of the 12 people killed by an explosion's concussion wave near the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base in Mari, Cyprus, on Monday July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Christos Theodoridis)
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A new escalator (left) is set to open Monday at the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro station in the District. Foggy Bottom is Metro's eighth-busiest station with an average weekday ridership of 21,587. Its new escalator is the Metro system's 588th people mover. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, holds a leadership position in his father's media group as chairman of News International. (Associated Press)
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Georgian journalists blind-fold themselves before forming a human chain around the Interior Ministry office in Tbilisi on Friday. The Center for Human Rights in Tbilisi said recent detention of members of the media were an attack on media freedoms and demanded the release of three detained photographers. (Associated Press)
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"It's an absolute shame regardless of what area we're in. What I've heard is that a lot of programs for the poor, specifically with housing in the District area, has changed and folks who are homeless or less fortunate have moved to a different area. That area happens to be Prince George's County." Jeffrey Washington, Bowie, contract specialist
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta greets members of the helicopter medivac crew attached to the 115th Combat Support Hospital while making an unannounced visit to Camp Dwyer in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)
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Old friends, Denise McCabe, of Vero Beach, Fla., center left and Cheryl Giesa, or Northville, Mich., cheer as they watch the Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-135, launch from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center from the roadside in Titusville, Fla., seven miles away, to begin the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, Friday, July 8, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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**FILE** This photo from Jan. 4, 2011, shows Ohio State linebacker Brian Rolle (36) holding up the Sugar Bowl trophy after Ohio State beat Arkansas 31-26 in the Sugar Bowl at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. (Associated Press)
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Denise McCabe (left center) of Vero Beach, Fla., and Cheryl Giesa (in white shirt) of Northville, Mich., cheer on Friday, July 8, 2011, as they watch from the roadside in Titusville, Fla., as the space shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Dana Frentz (left) of Raleigh, N.C., sleeps on Friday, July 8, 2011, next to Bryan DuBray (center) and his mother, Charlotte DuBray, both of Houston, along the roadside in Titusville, Fla., while waiting to watch the space shuttle Atlantis launch from the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Eli Villaverde (right) of Orlando, Fla., sells parking spots on Friday, July 8, 2011, at his family's property in Titusville, Fla., about seven miles from the Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Atlantis launched that morning. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
