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In this July 29, 2012 photo, an artist who calls himself the Urban Maeztro and prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons, works on a reproduction of Rene Magritte's "Son of Man," substituting the apple covering the face of the suited subject in a bowler hat with a pink grenade, at his studio in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The 26-year-old graphic artist left his day job at an advertising agency to work on pieces like this one, to encourage Hondurans think about how violent their country has become. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
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In this July 29, 2012 photo, an artist who calls himself the Urban Maeztro and prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons, works on a black-and-white reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" holding a pink gun at his studio before hanging it in a public space in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The 26-year-old graphic artist left his day job at an advertising agency to work on pieces like this one, to encourage Hondurans think about how violent their country has become. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
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In this July 29, 2012 photo, a masked artist who calls himself the Urban Maeztro and prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons, walks away after pasting one of his "interventions" on a street wall showing Rene Magritte's "Son of Man," substituting the apple covering the face of the suited subject in bowler hat with a pink grenade, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The 26-year-old graphic artist left his day job at an advertising agency to work on pieces like this one, to encourage Hondurans think about how violent their country has become. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
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Nicholas Delpopolo of the United States (left) and Nyam Ochir Sainjargal of Mongolia compete July 30, 2012, during the men's 73-kg judo competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Associated Press)
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This photo from Aug. 5, 2012, made available by NASA, shows the Curiosity rover (bottom) and its parachute descending to the surface from the vantage point of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Associated Press)
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (center), a member of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot, is escorted Aug. 6, 2012, to a courtroom in Moscow. Tolokonnikova and two other members of the group are facing trial on charges of hooliganism for performing a "punk prayer" at Moscow's main cathedral against Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian presidency. (Associated Press)
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associated press U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney botches her dismount during the artistic gymnastics women’s vault final Sunday. “Sometimes things don’t go as you planned,” said the silver medalist.
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Spencer Perez, 11, from Leesburg, Va. races a car he built from Legos during the Brickfair Lego Convention at the Dulles Expo Center. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)
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Spectators examine a miniature Serenity spaceship built by D.J. Farly, from Scarborough Maine, during the Brickfair Lego Convention at the Dulles Expo Center. Farly was inspired by his favorite science fiction television series Firefly. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)
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Tim and Meg Allwein, from Columbus, Ohio, spent over three years creating Studsville, a large village equip with it own train system, on display during the Brickfair Lego Convention at the Dulles Expo Center on Sunday, August 5, 2012, in Chantilly, Va. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)
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Gary Hornbaker, who served as warden of the Maryland House of Corrections from 2006 until it closed down in 2007, poses for a portrait in one of the cell block corridors on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Corrections Officer Anthony Smith stands guard outside the Maryland House of Corrections in Jessup, Md., as the general public walks up to the facility, following the same path a visitor visiting an inmate would have followed, during an open house. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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People touring the Maryland House of Corrections are seen reflected in a mirror as they make their way into a day room outside of one of the dormitories. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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People walk through a barbed-wire gated area to enter the Maryland House of Corrections in Jessup, Md during an open house on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
