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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, actor Chris Pine poses in the press room at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pine says the US should have done more in the run-up to the Olympics to protest Russia’s anti-gay legislation, which he calls “clearly awful, archaic, hostile nonsense.” “I think we should do more than just send gay Olympians there,” he said in an interview while promoting his film “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit," which opens Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, actor Chris Pine poses in the press room at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pine says the US should have done more in the run-up to the Olympics to protest Russia’s anti-gay legislation, which he calls “clearly awful, archaic, hostile nonsense.” “I think we should do more than just send gay Olympians there,” he said in an interview while promoting his film “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit," which opens Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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In this image from video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard a Coast Guard helicopter crew hoists one of four people from the 42-foot sailboat Be Good Too, background, about 300 miles off Virginia's coast Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014. Be Good Too was headed to the British Virgin Islands from New York when the crew contacted the Coast Guard on Monday. The Coast Guard says the crew reported that the sailboat was disabled and adrift. The sailboat's crew was rescued around 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard)
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An unidentified medical clinician interviews a patient at a Planned Parenthood location in Boston. The abortion rate fell 5 percent and the abortion ratio fell 4 percent from the previous year, reaching "historic lows for all three measures of abortion," according to a new report. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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This photo taken Dec. 17, 2013 shows anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen, of Boston, standing at the painted edge of a buffer zone outside a Planned Parenthood location in Boston. The regulation of protests outside abortion clinics returns to the Supreme Court for the first time since 2000 to find the justices seemingly more protective of speech and less committed to abortion rights. That combination could prove difficult to overcome for the state of Massachusetts as it seeks to defend a law, in arguments at the high court on Jan. 15, that prohibits abortion protests any closer than 35 feet from the entrance to clinics. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, a suspect is taken into custody in Bennington, Vt., one of dozens of suspects rounded up in southwestern Vermont on charges related to the distribution and sale of illicit drugs. In his State of the State address on Jan. 8, 2014, Gov. Peter Shumlin called for treatment and education in addition to law enforcement as the best way to meet the state's growing challenge from the abuse of heroin and other opiates, which are fueling crime and wrecking lives of families in the state. (AP Photo/The Banner, Peter Crabtree, File)
