Social Issues

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Newly born babies lie at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, on Monday. Already the second most populous country with 1.2 billion people, India is expected to overtake China around 2030 when its population soars to an estimated 1.6 billion. (Associated Press)

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:Protesters scuffle with riot police in Athens on Friday during a march marking the 71st anniversary of Greece's entry into World War II. Greek anger against harsh austerity measures have been targeted at the ruling Socialists, who are under pressure to appease international creditors. (Associated Press)

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US soldiers secure the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, a U.S. official says all 13 NATO service members killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital were American troops. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed four Afghans, including a policeman. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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"We are excited about being able to offer people better Medicare at less cost. That just makes sense," said Dr. Donald M. Berwick, administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate Gary E. Johnson vows to submit a balanced budget his first year in the White House, a budget he said would amount to a 43 percent spending cut. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Andrea Moton (left) and another abortion clinic worker, Sherry West (right), pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in two deaths at a Philadelphia clinic, where seven babies were said to have been killed with scissors and a woman died from a drug overdose. (Associated Press)

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A human hairball from the exhibit "Visibly Human: Health and Disease in the Human Body" at National Museum of Health and Medicine. (National Museum of Health and Medicine)

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Elephantiasis scrotum from the exhibit "Visibly Human: Health and Disease in the Human Body" at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. (National Museum of Health and Medicine)

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Myrtilla Miner Elementary School student London Gray, 5, tries out some traditional Swedish food in the cafeteria as H.R.H. Prince Daniel of Sweden makes a visit to Myrtilla Miner Elementary School in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, October 26, 2011. The Embassies of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden along with the D.C. Public Schools Office of Food & Nutrition Services, the Office of Secretary for the District of Columbia and the DC Embassy Adoption Program, bring Nordic food to all 45,000 D.C. Public School students at 125 schools. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Democratic Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey opposed a bill that would overturn several NLRB rulings, but it passed a House committee 23-16. (Associated Press)

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Gita Deane (left) and Lisa Polyak (right) are shown at their wedding in Washington with their daughters, Maya (center left), 15, and Devi, 12. Ms. Polyak is chairwoman of the statewide gay-rights group Equality Maryland. "The root of my activism is denial of equal treatment of my children," she said. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rajat Kumar Gupta, former chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, listens during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella, File)

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry holds up the tax form he says that Americans would fill out as he outlined a broad economic proposal of a flat 20 percent income tax rate during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at the State House in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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Rep. Steve King, one of the most fiery opponents of President Obama's "executive amnesty" for illegal immigrants, backed away from his previous calls for impeachment. "I don't want to do the 'I' word. Nobody wants to throw the nation into that kind of turmoil," the Iowa Republican told CNN immediately following Mr. Obama's executive action. (Associated Press)

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This arrest photo, made available by the Tampa Police Department, shows Michael Lohan following his arrest, Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011 in Tampa, Fla. Lohan was arrested after police received a domestic violence call from his Tampa home. He was arrested for battery on his live-in girlfriend. (AP Photo/Tampa Police Department)