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Walgreen's pharmacy manager Sarah Freedman stands in her store in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Would you go to a pharmacy to get tested for the AIDS virus? Health officials want to know. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday announced a $1.2 million pilot project to offer free rapid HIV tests at pharmacies and clinics in 24 cities and rural communities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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The OraQuick ADVANCE Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test (shown here) is used in pharmacies and drugstore clinics for rapid-result AIDS tests. A home version of the test was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. (AP Photo/OraSure Technologies)

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As abortion foes pray outside, Jackson Women's Health Organization owner Diane Derzis stands at the gate of Mississippi's only abortion clinic, in Jackson, Miss., on Monday. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday that blocked enforcement of a law that could effectively regulate it out of business. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Four aid workers arrive by Kenyan military helicopter in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, three days after they were kidnapped by gunmen who attacked a convoy from a Kenyan refugee camp. "We are happy. We are back. We are alive and we are happy this has ended," said Qurat-Ul-Ain Sadazai, one of the four workers with the Norwegian Refugee Council. They were rescued by a pro-government Somali militia group.

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"No, it's a penalty. It's a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1 percent perhaps of the population who may decide that they are going to be free-riders." - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat (Associated Press)

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Brian Conklin (far right), a regional campaign director for the re-election of President Obama, briefs volunteers about registering new voters prior to them canvassing a heavily Latino neighborhood in Phoenix. Across the country both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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In this photo combo, at left, in an Oct. 8, 2011 file photo, Penn State president Graham Spanier walks on the field before an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa. At right, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse in custody after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. CNN says it has seen emails showing Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against Sandusky to authorities but worried they'd be "vulnerable" for failing to report it. CNN says the emails followed a graduate assistant's 2001 report of seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in a shower. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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In this image released Thursday June 28,2012 by The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health showing the winning design for it's first ever contest to design condom wrappers. Health officials on Thursday unveiled the winning design for LA's Next Sex Symbol. The bow-tie image with the words "Suit Up" won over about 500 entries. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)