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In this Oct. 30, 2007, file photo, employees are silhouetted at the Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical factory in Ingelheim, central Germany. Boehringer Ingelheim has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve its drug flibanserin for women who report a lack of sexual desire, a market that drugmakers have been targeting for more than a decade since the success of Viagra in men. Federal health regulators said Wednesday, June 16, 2010, the first pill designed to boost the female sex drive failed to make a significant impact on libido in two studies.(AP Photo/Michael Pobst, file)
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Uzbeks who fled Kyrgyzstan live in a refugee camp on the border at the Uzbek village of Erkishlok on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Many thousands of refugees have fled the pogrom that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)
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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian lawmakers vote on procedures before a no-confidence vote in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, left, and Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos talk to reporters as they leave the prime minister's office in Athens after talks on draft reforms to the country's pension system, on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. On Monday, JUne 14, 2010, Moody's Investors Service slashed Greece's credit rating to junk status, the latest blow to the debt-ridden nation. This led to fears Greece and other European governments could default on their debts and drove up gains in U.S. Treasury securities holding by China and other governments. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says fees have to be raised to cover the budget for processing requests for immigration benefits. But proposed increases are being kept as low as possible, he says.
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This photo provided by his family shows Darren James LaBonte, 35, in Afghanistan in 2007. Mr. LaBonte was one of seven CIA employees who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a U.S. base in Khost, Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Courtesy of LaBonte's Family) ** FILE **
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**FILE** Judy Schulz (front) and her husband, Richard Schulz (left), both of Glendale, Ariz., joined hundreds on June 5, 2010, for a rally near the capitol in Phoenix supporting Arizona's new law on illegal immigration. (Associated Press/Ross D. Franklin)
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A photojournalist (left) runs Friday June 4, 2010, as Israeli soldiers try to stop a vehicle decorated in a shape of a ship by Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters. The vehicle depicted one of the ships of the humanitarian flotilla that tried to get to Gaza, during a protest against Israel's separation barrier, in the outskirts of the West Bank village of Bilin, near the city of Ramallah. Tensions are high in the aftermath of an Israeli naval raid targeting the aid flotilla to Gaza that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, mostly Turks, in the ensuing clash. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A family stands next to a statue depicting a typical Chinese family with one child in Shanghai in 2008. (Associated Press)
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Sen. John McCain, seen at a May 17 Senate hearing, disagreed Thursday with objections to boosting a program that jails illegal immigrants briefly rather than immediately releasing them across the border. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A lab technician at the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Science in Bangkok who works with the HIV Vaccine Trial Phrase Project in Thailand holds up a vial of AIDS vaccine in 2005 to check information and the manufacturing date printed on the vials. (AP Photo/Thai Public Health Ministry)
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**FILE** Ernie Getford holds a sign in support of the controversial SB1070 illegal immigration enforcement bill during a rally at the state Capitol in Phoenix on April 23, 2010. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 15, 2010, a candlelight vigil is held at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts for freshman Phoebe Prince, 15, who had killed herself the previous day. Nine teens were charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of Prince, originally from Ireland, who killed herself after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online. (Associated Press)
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A box of syringes used in a needle exchange program is displayed in an RV outfitted as a "mobile health unit" in the Trinidad neighborhood of NE Washington D.C., Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The program, run by non-profti PreventionWorks! is the oldest and largest syringe exchange program in Washington, D.C. and also offers HIV testing, drug treatment referrals, wound care and safer sex kits, food and other services. (Allison Shelley/ The Washington Times)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), Kentucky Republican, listens as Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, talks to the media after the Senate Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** Demonstrators hold a large U.S. flag at the state Capitol in Phoenix on Friday, April 23, 2010, to protest immigration bill SB1070. Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the U.S.'s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure which critics saY could violate people's civil rights. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle)
