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**FILE** A construction worker carries a load of wood to a new home as they frame the house in Chester, Va., on May 16, 2012. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks at a fundraiser in San Antonio on Tuesday. As the incumbent, he has tactical advantages over his challenger. (Associated Press)
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In the wife carrying world championships men carry women on their a shoulders, climbing over obstacles and crossing a pool of water. The annual competition is organized in the Finnish town Sonkajarvi. (Veera Tegelberg/Special to The Washington Times)
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Master of airemonies Dan Crane, center, presents the 2011 best three air guitar performers during the 2011 championship. (Pasi Lehtinen/Special to The Washington Times)
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Colby Anderson delivers an argument during his midterm last week for Mr. Di Resta’s class, “The Not-So-Dark Art of Campaign Research.” The eight-week course has been offered three consecutive summers. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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In the wife-carrying world championships, held in Sonkajarvi, Finland, men carry women on their shoulders while climbing over obstacles and crossing a pool of water. (Veera Tegelberg/Special to The Washington Times)
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Maureen Donegan, center, serves Aromatic Foie Gras soup to Gene Mattiuzzo, left, and his wife Sue Ann, right, of Fort Bragg, Calif., during lunch at the Presidio Social Club restaurant Tuesday, July 17, 2012 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Michael Webb of Dominion Paving endures the heat as he uses a pickax while working on a road project near downtown Richmond on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Auto mechanic Junior Doral sweats it out at the Belle View Exxon in Alexandria on Tuesday, the 108th anniversary of Willis H. Carrier’s invention of modern air conditioning. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Karlen Bley seems pleased to get her foie gras from waiter Andrew Houge on Tuesday at the Presidio Social Club restaurant in San Francisco. California’s ban on the production and sale of foie gras took eight years to go into effect. But the restaurant claims an exemption because it is located on federal land. (Associated Press)
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Jack Koehler, business has been up since he put Simpson statues in front of Sweety’s Frozen Yogurt store in Springfield, Ore., a nod to “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, who used a city in his native state as a model for the show. (Associated Press)
