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Anne, a child with Down syndrome, draws during a meeting in Paris on April 11, 2001, of the Collective Against Handiphobia, a French advocacy and support group for parents of children born with birth defects. AP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG
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Election officials prepare a polling station in a village just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Election officials prepare a polling station in a village just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 25, 2010. Kyrgyzstan's central government pledged to help ethnic Uzbeks vote in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, encouraging participation by a minority group that has supported the interim administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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A burned out police jeep lies on a road as a reminder of the local people's protests against "land grab" for building factories in Nandigram, India. (Sujoy Dhar/Special to The Washington Times)
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-OH, speaks during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 24, 2010. Behind him from left are Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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People march during a protest on the Old-Port in Marseille, southern France, on Thursday June 24, 2010. Many French trains stood still, schoolchildren played instead of studied and post offices were shuttered as workers nationwide went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 200 marches and protests are planned for several cities over a broad reform to the money-losing pension system, part of efforts around Europe to cut back on growing public debts. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, displays his budget box outside his official residence at 11 Downing St. in central London on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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From left: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare President and Chief Executive Officer, former Connecticut Rep. Barbara Kennelly, discuss benefits and questions about the Affordable Care Act and Medicare at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. The White House released the "patients bill of rights" on Tuesday, June 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Dodge County Election Commisioner Fred Mytty holds the unofficial results to a special election held Monday June 21, 2010, in Fremont, Neb. The election was for a proposal to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
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An absentee father "leaves a hole in a child's life," President Obama says Monday in Anacostia while announcing a mentoring program for fathers, including job training and violence prevention, and initiatives to help ex-offenders return to parenting. (Associated Press)
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Ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz jointly dismantle a street barricade on the border of Uzbek district in the southern city of Osh, Saturday, June 19, 2010. Some 4,500 refugees have returned to Kyrgyzstan from neighboring Uzbekistan in the past few days, the Kyrgyz Border Service said in its press release on Saturday, according to reports by Itar-Tass. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)
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People protest against Ronnie Lee Gardner's death penalty at the Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty rally at the Utah State Capital in Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday, June 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Matt Gillis)
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People reflect on Ronnie Lee Gardner's death penalty by singing, prayers, and reading at St. Mark's Cathedral in Salt Lake City, Thursday, June 17, 2010, hours before Gardner was executed by firing squad. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Matt Gillis)
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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party face a water-canon burst as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party face a water-canon burst as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party face a water-canon burst as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Charity society volunteers repack food for distribution in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Ethnic Uzbeks walk on Uzbekistan territory after they crossed the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border near the southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010, as Uzbek border guards look on. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
