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Pro-bullfighting supporters shout at anti-bullfighting supporters in front of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The parliament voted to outlaw bullfighting, making Catalonia Spain's first major region to do so after an impassioned debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture. (AP Photo/David Ramos)
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Pro-bullfighting supporters argue with police officers in front of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The parliament voted to outlaw bullfighting, making Catalonia Spain's first major region to do so after an impassioned debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture. (AP Photo/David Ramos)
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Animal rights activists toast with sparkling wine to celebrate Catalonia's parliament decision to ban bullfights on their northeastern region, in Madrid on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Lawmakers in Catalonia outlawed bullfighting Wednesday, making it Spain's first major region to do so after an impassioned debate that pitted the rights of animals against preserving a pillar of traditional culture. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FBI oversight. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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In this still from the film "City of Ruins," provided by The Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, the ruins of the Ghetto are seen in Warsaw in 1944 after the uprising. Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. (AP Photo/Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image)
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Pakistani rescue workers examine the site of a plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official said all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo)
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Pakistani rescuers surround the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)
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Pakistani rescuers surround the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo)
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Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)
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Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Irfan Haider)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni Sarkozy is pictured during filming of a scene of the movie "Midnight in Paris", directed by Woody Allen, in Paris, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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President Obama makes an appeal for bipartisanship on his legislative agenda on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Nine people died when two Metro trains collided near the Fort Totten station in Washington, D.C. in 2009 “after the automatic train control system failed. ”With IoT, this likely would have been averted," writes Peter Lewis. (Photo: The Washington Times)
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Sen. John Kerry's yacht, Isabel, undergoes warranty repairs in Portsmouth, R.I., Friday. It will be based in nearby Newport, potentially saving Mr. Kerry a $437,500 Massachusetts sales tax and $70,000 in annual state excise taxes, which he says he'll pay anyway. (Associated Press)
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Mr. Kerry speaks to reporters in Weymouth, Mass. He issued a statement saying he plans to pay "the equivalent taxes as if the boat's home-port were currently in Massachusetts." (Associated Press)
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Laura Hedlund (right) and Sue Skog protest in front of Target in Bloomington, Minn., on Saturday after the company donated $150,000 to a group backing the Republican candidate in the governor's race Target Corp.'s CEO Gregg Steinhafel defended the donations. (Associated Press)
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Argentina's national soccer team coach Diego Armando Maradona listens to a question from the press prior to his meeting with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, unseen, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for Senate in California, has the backing of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. (Associated Press)
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HELP ON THE WAY: An Afghan soldier fighting alongside U.S. troops launches a grenade during a clash in Kandahar. President Obama will get a $59 billion emergency war-spending bill to sign to fund his U.S. troop surge. (Associated Press)
