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Marina Poplavskaya and Matthew Polenzani during a rehearsal of Willy Decker's production of "La Taviata" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, on Dec...

Maria Fransiska, an Indonesian nurse, right, in Kashiwa, outside of Tokyo, Jan. 2, 2010. Despite facing an imminent labor shortage as its population a...

David Senft, father of Staff Sgt. David Senft, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he died in a "noncombat-related incident," at his home in Nap...

Ana Ochoa, a close friend of Staff Sgt. David Senft, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he died in a "noncombat-related incident," at her home...

Former New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo acknowledges the applause of the crowd during a speech by his son, Andrew Cuomo, during the inauguration in the st...

FILE -- Harry Macklowe outside his building in New York, Sept. 27, 2005. Macklowe nearly lost his empire on a gamble on seven Midtown skyscrapers, but...

Students after gathering for a Gay-Straight Alliance club meeting in St. George, Utah, Dec. 1, 2010. Students at three local high schools this fall cr...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his daughter, Michaela, after speaking at the inauguration in the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 1, 2011. Cuomo,...

As the New Year's Eve ball drops and confetti flies, people celebrate the start of 2011 in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an an...

Francesca Esposito in Rome, Nov. 24, 2010. Esposito, who has a law degree and a master's and speaks five languages, recently quit her unpaid job for I...

FILE -- New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis (24) after winning an NFL football game against the Houston Texans at New Meadowlands Stadium in East...

People celebrate the start of 2011 shortly after midnight as the New Year's Eve ball drops in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an...

As the New Year's Eve ball drops and confetti flies, people celebrate the start of 2011 in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an an...

Bill Rahl, a retiree who says people shouldn't have to give up a pension, stands outside the municipal building in Washington Township, N.J., Dec. 9,...

Michael Tini, a card dealer in Atlantic City, N.J., who thinks public school teachers should take their fair share of the pain on budget cuts, stands...

Francesca Esposito in Rome, Nov. 24, 2010. Esposito, who has a law degree and a master's and speaks five languages, recently quit her unpaid job for I...

A boy tends to a herd near the village of Beldenadji, Mali, Nov. 19, 2010. Extreme poverty in parts of Mali helps drive narcotics trafficking and Isla...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at the inauguration at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 1, 2011. Cuomo, whose political career began guiding...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at the inauguration at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 1, 2011. Cuomo, whose political career began guiding...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at the inauguration at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 1, 2011. Cuomo, whose political career began guiding...

Andrew Cuomo is sworn in as governor of New York by State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman at the inauguration in the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Jan....

FILE -- Scott Lawlor, the founder of Broadway Partners, in New York, Aug. 14, 2006. Lawlor is trying to line up wealthy investors after he bought 28 o...

People celebrate the start of 2011 shortly after midnight as the New Year's Eve ball drops in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an...

As the New Year's Eve ball drops and confetti flies, people celebrate the start of 2011 in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an an...

As the New Year's Eve ball drops, people celebrate the start of 2011 in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an annual gathering plac...

As the New Year's Eve ball drops, people celebrate the start of 2011 in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an annual gathering plac...

FILE -- Planes sit idle on the tarmac at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Dec. 27, 2010. A powerful storm system produced blizzard c...

Eric Hamren of the Utah Pride Center who trains student organizers, at a club meeting in Salt Lake City, Dec. 1, 2010. Students at three local high sc...

Eric Hamren of the Utah Pride Center who trains student organizers, at the Marmalade Cafe at the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City, Dec. 1, 2010. St...

Support words written on the hand of Bethany Coyle, who describes herself as straight and a supporter of equal rights, at a Gay-Straight Alliance club...

Bethany Coyle, who describes herself as straight and a supporter of equal rights, at a Gay-Straight Alliance club meeting at the St. George Public lib...

Outside a lactation room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 22, 2010. New mothers can nurse their babies and pump their milk at four lactation suites...

Francesca Esposito, who has a law degree and recently quit her unpaid job for Italy's social security administration, in Rome, Nov. 24, 2010. Young pe...

A woman removes husks from rice in the village of Soumouni, Mali, Nov. 21, 2010. Mali aims to establish a more visible government presence in the nort...

As the New Year's Eve ball drops and confetti flies, people celebrate the start of 2011 in Times Square in New York, Jan. 1, 2011. The square is an an...

Nancy Mendelsohn with her mother, Rose Taran, who was kicked out of other nursing homes, at the Beatitudes nursing home in Phoenix, on Sept. 21, 2010....

The house cat, Miss Kitty, lounges near the black rectangle that keeps patients from wandering onto the elevators at the Beatitudes nursing home in P...

Nancy Mendelsohn with her mother, Rose Taran, who was kicked out of other nursing homes, at the Beatitudes nursing home in Phoenix, on Sept. 21, 2010....

Chocolates, given as an unlimited treat to some patients, at the Beatitudes nursing home in Phoenix, on Sept. 21, 2010. The nursing home disregards ty...

Margaret Nance with the doll that has been calming to her at the Beatitudes nursing home in Phoenix, on Sept. 21, 2010. The nursing home disregards ty...

Aloysius Nachreiner, one of the country's first baby boomers, at Designers Folding Box Corporation, his workplace, in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 31, 2010. On...

Aloysius Nachreiner, one of the country's first baby boomers, at Designers Folding Box Corporation, his workplace, in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 31, 2010. On...

In a copy photograph, Aloysius and Anna Nachreiner, parents of the first baby born in Buffalo in 1946, in an undated photo. On New Year's Day, the old...

Aloysius Nachreiner, one of the country's first baby boomers, at home in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 31, 2010. On New Year's Day, the oldest members of the Ba...

Aloysius Nachreiner, one of the country's first baby boomers, outside his home, in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 31, 2010. On New Year's Day, the oldest members...

Aloysius Nachreiner, one of the country's first baby boomers, outside Designers Folding Box Corporation, his workplace, in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 31, 201...

In a copy photograph, Aloysius Nachreiner, America's first baby boomer with his grandma in 1960. On New Year's Day, the oldest members of the Baby Boo...

A newspaper clipping announcing Aloysius Nachreiner's birth, the first baby born in Buffalo in 1946, thus making him one of the country's first baby b...

Wisconsin Gov.-elect Scott Walker eats while working at the Milwaukee County Executive's office in Milwaukee, Dec. 31, 2010. Walker has said that he h...

A pre-Columbian Ceramic vessel from Costa Rica, in the Minor C. Keith Collection at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, Dec. 14, 2010. The Brooklyn Muse...