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Mayor Michael Nutter's purchases are scanned by a cashier at a ShopRite grocery story Monday, April 23, 2012, in Philadelphia. Nutter pledged Monday to live on the average food stamp benefit of five dollars a day for the entire week. The challenge takes place the week before the planned asset test for food stamps goes into effect in Pennsylvania, which critics say will disqualify thousands of low-income families from food assistance. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A sign lets people know where to line up for early voting at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati. Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling places have been blocked or delayed, pleasing opponents who contend the laws were among a variety of partisan attempts to prevent minority voters from casting ballots this election season. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Syrian refugees children flash victory signs Oct. 2, 2012, as they stand in front of their tents at a refugee camp in Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border. This Lebanese border town has become a safe haven for war-weary Syrian rebels, a way station for wounded fighters and home to hundreds of frightened Syrian refugee families. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama listens as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney speaks during the second presidential debate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Alexis Wright, 29, a Zumba instructor, is facing 109 counts of prostitution, violation of privacy, tax evasion and other charges for allegedly providing sex for money at her Kennebunk fitness studio and office. Some men are facing charges of engaging in prostitution. (Associated Press)
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Richard Lee Norris, shown in September of 2012 after reconstructive surgery. (Photo/University of Maryland Medical System)
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Trays of printed Social Security checks in Philadelphia wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury in 2005. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Kelly Buckland (left), of the National Council on Independent Living, at a Monday hearing at D.C. city hall, discusses the Accessible Parking Amendment Act of 2012, which would designate 1,800 parking spaces with red-top meters for the disabled. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Vice President George H.W. Bush (left) won in 1988 in part owing to Michael Dukakis’ opposition to the death penalty. (Associated Press)
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Dr. Molly O'Dell, right, health director of the New River Valley Health District, addresses a press conference on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 in Roanoke, Va., concerning the recent fungal menigitis outbreak investigation tied to tainted injections. Other health care officials participating are, from the left; LewisGale Regional Health System CEO Victor Giovanetti, Director of the Roanoke-Alleghany Health Department Dr. Stephanie Harper, Chief Medical Officer for LewisGale Regional Health System Dr. Gary Winfield, Dr. Thomas Kerkering, Infectious Disease, Carilion Clinic. Public health officials in Virginia say the number of suspected cases of a rare and potentially deadly outbreak of meningitis has increased to five. The state has recorded one death linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak.(AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Stephanie Klein-Davis)
