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Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik of the Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) casts his vote at a polling station in Banja Luka, Bosnia, 74 miles west of Sarajevo, on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. With the top candidates fiercely at odds over Bosnia's future, the elections are likely to further entrench the nation's ethnic divisions and threaten possible European Union entry. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Activists gather at the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the "One Nation Working Together" rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rutgers University students sign condolence cards Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, in New Brunswick, N.J., for the family of fellow student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide apparently after his roommate allegedly broadcast video of his having sex with another man. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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**FILE** Sex education teacher Shayna Knowles (center) talks Sept. 10, 2010, to students during class at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth, Fla. (Associated Press)
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This April 2010 photo shows Chris Armstrong, the gay University of Michigan student assembly president in Ann Arbor, Mich. Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general, is using his personal blog to target Mr. Armstrong, calling him a racist with a "radical homosexual agenda." The lawyer claims that when he's not at work, he has the right to say whatever he wants. (AP Photo/AnnArbor.com, Melanie Maxwell)
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Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa protest against rebellious police outside the hospital where Ecuador's President Rafael Correa is located in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)
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Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, carrying a poster of Correa, protest against rebellious police outside the hospital where Correa is located in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)
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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, wearing a gas mask, is caught in the middle of a police protest at a police base in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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A French riot policeman, left, holds an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 on the ground. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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A French riot policeman, left, holds an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 on the ground. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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A French riot policeman, left, grab an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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A French riot policeman, left, holds an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 on the ground. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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FILE - In this May 18, 2009 photo, former New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, right, addresses a City Hall news conference on the swine flu outbreak with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in New York. Now director of the CDC, Frieden has chosen six priorities _ winnable battles, he calls them. The six public health problems are smoking, AIDS, obesity/nutrition, teen pregnancy, auto injuries and health care infections. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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File-In this photo taken Friday Dec. 19, 2008, a patient lays in her bed in the hospice at the Tapalogo project in Phokeng, Rustenburg, South Africa. The bleak burden of AIDS in South Africa is extraordinary, but there is reason for hope, a researcher who has mapped the cost of controlling the epidemic said in an interview. A report Robert Hecht helped prepare, which was released Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, concludes reversing the country's deeply entrenched AIDS epidemic is "extremely difficult, if not impossible, in the coming years." The nation of almost 50 million has more people than any other country with the virus that causes AIDS, an estimated 5.7 million HIV-positive citizens. (AP photo/Denis Farrell-File)
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A policeman demonstrates Thursday at a police base in Quito, Ecuador, next to a bonfire during a protest of police officers and soldiers against a new law that cuts their benefits. President Rafael Correa tried to speak to a group of protesting police officers but was shouted down. (Associated Press)
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A lie-in for "civility" takes place at Rutgers University in response to the suicide of freshman Tyler Clementi, who jumped off a bridge after a recording of him in a gay encounter was broadcast online. (Asssociated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio addresses the American Enterprise Institute in Washington about ways to make Congress more fiscally responsible.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. prior to the Senate vote on the defense authorization bill.
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Riot police hit out at demonstrators during protests in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.(AP Photo/David Ramos)
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Riot police take to the streets during riots in Barcelona, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
