Social Issues

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada addresses volunteers at a campaign office in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Reid campaign painted the opponent as a radical extremist who wanted to end Social Security, work with Scientologists to give prisoners massages and eliminate veterans' benefits.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada addresses volunteers at a campaign office in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Reid campaign painted the opponent as a radical extremist who wanted to end Social Security, work with Scientologists to give prisoners massages and eliminate veterans' benefits.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS House Minority Leader John A. Boehner signs in before casting his vote on Tuesday at a polling place in West Chester, Ohio.

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Members of the mariachi band "Los Munecos," along with volunteers from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) urge immigrant voters to vote early in the California election in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes/File)

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MARQUEE NAME: The story line of the Indian comedy "Phas Gaye Re Obama" was inspired by President Obama and the global recession, says the director, who hopes his movie will benefit from the president's upcoming visit to India. (Provided by Revel Films Pvt. Ltd.)

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From left: Isai Aguilar Morales, 22, Crisantos Moroyoqui, 36, and Jose David Castro Reyes, 25, are suspected in connection with the beheading of Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy, 38, in suburban Phoenix. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Associated Press)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shares a laugh with girls from the Siem Reap Center, a U.S.-funded shelter in Siem Reap, Cambodia, that provides rehabilitation and vocational training for sex-trafficking victims. (Associated Press)

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A sign at a sewage pond at an unpermitted trailer park in Mecca, Calif., attests to the hazard there. Squalid housing for migrant farmworkers has for decades been a reality in many places where crops are grown. But the situation in the Coachella Valley, 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles, is unique for both its severity and for the hundreds of hidden and largely unplanned trailer parks that house workers. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this March 7, 2009 file photo, Chinese film director Jia Zhangke speaks during a press conference of his new film titled "24 City" in Shanghai, China. The Golden Lion-winning Chinese director best known for portraying working-class struggles on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 defended his decision to try his hand at commercial cinema as he prepares to make his first kung fu epic. (AP Photo/File)

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New Jersey state Sen. Barbara Buono stands with other lawmakers in Trenton as she answers a question Monday about a bill they introduced to toughen the state's anti-bullying laws after the widely publicized suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. The bipartisan group of lawmakers touted the "anti-bullying bill of rights" targeting public schools and colleges. (Associated Press)

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A woman shows support of rights activist Abdel-Jalil Singace outside the courthouse in Manama, where the trial opened for him and two dozen others accused of plotting against Bahrain's rulers. (Associated Press)

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In a photo provided by Goldberg McDuffie Communication, Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia University is seen in an undated photo. Despommier's book titled "The Vertical Farm" was published in Oct. 2010, and explores the possibility of farming in skyscrapers as a way to solve food and fresh water shortages. (AP Photo/Goldberg McDuffie Communication, Marlene Bloom, HO)

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Bosnian Serb refugee Borka Mandzo, 68,with her nephew Nemanja, 6, right, and niece Natasa,13, left, reflected in a wall mirror sits in her small room , inside the collective refugee center in the Bosnian town of Rogatica, 73 kms east of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. The Babic sisters were among other 15 refugees visited in April 2010 by UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie. Refugees in Rogatica belong to population of 117.000 who were not able to return their homes 15 years after Bosnian war. Refugees in this center after Jolies visit are convinced that things have started moving in terms of getting some donation leading the solving their house problem.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)

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In May 1997, a Hutu refugee with his hands bound pleads for his life to two soldiers, whom the photographer identified as Rwandan Tutsis, about 30 miles south of Kisangani in Congo, then known as Zaire. The photographer said the soldiers killed him moments later. (Associated Press)