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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)

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** FILE ** Jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford arrives in custody at the federal courthouse in Houston in August 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Russian police detain opposition activists Monday in St. Petersburg. More than 100 were arrested in Russia's second-largest city, where about 2,000 gathered to protest results of the presidential election.

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Virginia Capitol Police arrest more than 30 pro-choice activists when they refused to disperse as ordered. (Associated Press)

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Virginia State Police stand by as protesters are removed from the front steps of the state Capitol in Richmond on Saturday. (Associated Press)

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Georgetown University law student and activist Sandra Fluke (center) speaks March 5, 2012, during an appearance in New York on the daytime talk show "The View" as co-hosts Joy Behar (left) and Sherri Shepherd listen. Fluke talked about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and the comments he made on his program after she testified to Democratic members of Congress in support of a requirement that health care companies provide coverage for contraception. (Associated Press/ABC)

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A protester chants slogans in front of blocked ticket machines with a banner that reads "Occupation" placed on them at the Syntagma Metro station in Athens on Saturday, March 3, 2012, during a protest against the Greek government's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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An Afghan refugee girl reacts March 4, 2012, after another child stole her food voucher while she was queuing in front a truck organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner at Bowling Green State University, Saturday, March 3, 2012, in Bowling Green, Ohio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, and his wife, Karen, right, visit volunteers during a stop at his campaign field office, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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In a video, Eliana Lopez is seen with a bruised right arm in San Francisco (above). Less than two years after moving to the United States, Mrs. Lopez blogged about her hopes and aspirations for her new, simpler life as a wife and mother, far from the bright lights of Latin American TV and movies. Now, Lopez is back in the spotlight in a domestic-violence case involving her husband, embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi (left, with his wife). (San Francisco Attorney's Office via Associated Press)

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The D.C. Council is looking to smooth the process for registering a gun in the District. What's up with that? "I think they should be making it harder because too many innocent people are getting killed, especially children and bystanders. I hate to hear about that." Alex Shelman, 49, Northwest, unemployed veteran

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign stop at the Lake County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner, Friday, March 2, 2012, in Willoghby, Ohio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Dharun Ravi looks at spectators during his trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. on March 1, 2012. Ravi is accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, intimate encounter with another man. Days later Clementi committed suicide. (Associated Press/The Star-Ledger)

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Mark Mihelcic of Annapolis, Md., talks to his son Solomon, 5, about the importance of the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which he and Solomon came to the State House to see signed into law on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Mihelcic says he is not gay, but he believes this act protects an important civil liberty. He has a good friend who was born and raised in Maryland but is now living in Arizona, and he says that friend would like to come back to Maryland now so that he and his partner can get married. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley moves out to the crowd to hand out pens after signing the Civil Marriage Protection Act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Supporters of the Civil Marriage Protection Act wave to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley after he and Speaker of the House Michael Busch, right, signed the act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)