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Activist Lori Lamb distributes stickers to travelers to protest against TSA's new security procedures at Los Angeles International Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. Holiday travelers dismayed by airport body scans planned protests at bustling airports Wednesday, while the head of the nation's transport security agency urged passengers to comply with searches to reduce the possibility of delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Protesters let off a smoke flare as thousands of students protest against tuition fees at Whitehall in London, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Protesters break down a construction barrier as thousands of students protest against tuition fees at Whitehall in London, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Protesters gesture on top of a stranded police van as thousands of students protest against increased tuition fees at Whitehall in London, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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An injured protester is treated by police medic as thousands of students protest against tuition fees at Whitehall in London, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A police officer guards the area where a bus was burned by alleged drug traffickers at the Santa Cruz slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Nov. 24, 2010. Heavily armed men halted buses and cars, robbed their passengers and set the vehicles ablaze Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a wave of violence that has rattled rich and poor alike in a city Brazil hopes to make a showplace for the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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A worker cuts damaged cables next to a bus burned by alleged drug traffickers at the Santa Cruz slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Nov. 24, 2010. Heavily armed men halted buses and cars, robbed their passengers and set the vehicles ablaze Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a wave of violence that has rattled rich and poor alike in a city Brazil hopes to make a showplace for the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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British police officers prepare to barricade off the Liberal Democrats Party headquarter in central London in readiness for a student protest against raised tuition fees on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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"We cannot balance the budget" on the backs of residents and small businesses, said council member Jack Evans. (The Washington Times)
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In a May 2006 file photo, Gilead Sciences Inc. Chief Executive John Martin holds a Truvada pill bottle in a lab in Foster City, Calif. Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Daily doses of Truvada, a pill already used to treat infection with HIV, the virus that causes the disease, helped prevent healthy gay men from catching it through sex with an infected partner. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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"Americans don't want Congress passing massive trillion-dollar bills that have been thrown together behind closed doors," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, here with Sen. Lamar Alexander (center), said recently. Big-ticket economic issues face the lame-duck Congress after Thanksgiving. (Associated Press)
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Fernando Mateo, left, the president of Hispanics Across America, and attorney Kevin Faga announce in New York on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, that the estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed in a 2008 confrontation with a mob of teens in in Patchogue, Long Island has filed a $40 million federal civil rights lawsuit. Hate crimes reported last year by police agencies nationwide were down by 15 percent compared to 2008 and hit their lowest point in 15 years, the FBI said Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Fernando Mateo, left, the president of Hispanics Across America, and attorney Kevin Faga announce in New York on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, that the estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed in a 2008 confrontation with a mob of teens in in Patchogue, Long Island has filed a $40 million federal civil rights lawsuit. Hate crimes reported last year by police agencies nationwide were down by 15 percent compared to 2008 and hit their lowest point in 15 years, the FBI said Monday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy watches from the sidelines during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Texas, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London on Oct. 23, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor has asked for a court order to detain Mr. Assange for questioning on suspicions of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.(AP Photo/Lennart Preiss/File)
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U.S. Congress Sen. Peter V. Domenici, co-chairman of the task force, calls the growing deficit "a quiet killer."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Fifty-six new members of the Maricopa County sheriff's "Immigration Posse" are sworn in Phoenix. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deputized nearly 3,000 posse members since 1993. He is fighting U.S. Justice Department accusations that he discriminates against Hispanics.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Fifty-six new members of the Maricopa County sheriff's "Immigration Posse" are sworn in Phoenix. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has deputized nearly 3,000 posse members since 1993. He is fighting U.S. Justice Department accusations that he discriminates against Hispanics.
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U.S. Congress Sen. Peter V. Domenici, co-chairman of the task force, calls the growing deficit "a quiet killer."
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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Rastafarian inmates Allen McRae (above) and Kendall Ray Gibson (top) have been in isolation for more than 10 years in Virginia prisons because state policy bans beards and calls for hair above shirt collars. Now they and other inmates who refused to comply will live together in a southwestern Virginia prison.
