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Ehibitors arrive at the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Two women take a photograph outside of the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (Associated Press)

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Visitors arrive at the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Friends inspect each other's tattoos at the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A tattoo artist starts a tattoo on the back of a visitor at the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A tattoo artist starts a tattoo on the back of a visitor at the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A Taiwanese woman displays her body tattoo at the International Tattoo Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 30, 2010. Tattoos, once seen as a symbol of underworld membership in conservative Taiwan, have burst into the mainstream. Tattoo artists from around the world flocked to the festival to display their works. The festival will run from July 30 to August 1. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Thai soldiers hold anti-government protesters in their encampment in Bangkok on May 19, ending a nine-month showdown that caused up to 90 deaths.

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President Obama delivers an education reform speech at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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President Obama delivers an education reform speech at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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President Obama greets the crowd after delivering an education reform speech at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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**FILE** Retired Gen. Hamid Gul, former Chief Inter Services Intelligence, addresses students of a Dar-ul-Alumi-Islami, Islamic religious school during a graduation ceremony in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sept. 30, 2001. (Associated Press)

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In this July 16, 2010 photo, members of the religious group Minyan Tehillah, Gershon Marx, right, of Somerville, and Lieba Savitt of Somerville, holding her one-year-old son Eliyah, prepare for a Saturday morning Kabbalat Shabbat worship service at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, in Cambridge, Mass. The group is an "independent minyan," and dozens of these unaffiliated Jewish worship communities have sprung up in the past decade, mixing elements of the mainstream denominations while answering to none of them. A Torah scroll is in the foreground. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

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** FILE ** Bell, Calif., resident Marcelino Ceja yells at City Council members during a meeting addressing city leaders' pay on Monday, July 26, 2010, in Bell, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Bell, Calif., resident Vanessa Moya, 15, holds up paper cut-outs of Bell city officials as she awaits a city council meeting addressing city leaders' pay, Monday, July 26, 2010, in Bell, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Sitting from left, Bell city councillor Teresa Jacobo, Mayor Oscar Hernandez and city councillor George Mirabal listen to Bell resident Guadalupe Angelo, foreground, during a city council meeting addressing city leaders' pay, Monday, July 26, 2010, in Bell, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)