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A supporter of Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania Senator and Republican presidential candidate, during one of Santorum's campaign stops in Hiawatha...

Jesse Smith, a leader of the local NAACP who says the cities made criminals out of everyone associated with Section 8, in Palmdale, Calif., Aug. 3, 20...

A neighborhood in Palmdale, Calif., Aug. 3, 2011. Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Lancaster and the neighboring city of Palm...

A sign indicating a home for rent in a neighborhood in Lancaster, Calif., Aug. 3, 2011. Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Lanc...

A neighborhood in Lancaster, Calif., Aug. 3, 2011. Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Lancaster and the neighboring city of Pal...

A neighborhood in Lancaster, Calif., Aug. 3, 2011. Civil rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Lancaster and the neighboring city of Pal...

Author Kevin Wilson, at the cabin that he shares with his wife and son in Sewanee, Tenn., Aug. 10, 2011. In his first novel, "The Family Fang," publi...

Author Kevin Wilson, at the cabin that he shares with his wife and son in Sewanee, Tenn., Aug. 10, 2011. In his first novel, "The Family Fang," publi...

The home of Patrick Mets, the director of finance and human resources for Aremis, in a decommissioned water tower, in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7,...

Patrick Mets and his partner, Valerie Lecherf, who made a decommissioned water tower their home, in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2011. Mets and Le...

The third level of the home of Patrick Mets in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2011. The bedroom of daughters Aurelie, 13, and Justine, 11, takes up...

The bathtub in the home of Patrick Mets, the director of finance and human resources for Aremis, settled his family into a decommissioned water tower,...

The home of Patrick Mets, the director of finance and human resources for Aremis, settled his family into a decommissioned water tower, in Steenokkerz...

The home of Patrick Mets in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2011. A steel staircase connects the master bedroom to the kitchen and living room above,...

The cat house in the home of Patrick Mets in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2011. Grizzly keeps an eye out from the cat house which is set into the...

The kitchen in the home of Patrick Mets in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2011. The futuristic kitchen with its recessed oven and hidden fridge and...

The home of Patrick Mets in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium, Aug. 7, 2011. The living area on the sixth level is dominated by the long and low $8,000 rectangu...

Tattoo artist Mike Fite works on a tattoo of the patron saint for police officers for a police officer at Black Lantern Tattoo in Phoenix, Aug. 10, 20...

A police officer shows her female version of Saint Michael, the patron saint of police officers, tattoo at Black Lantern Tattoo in Phoenix, Aug. 10, 2...

President Barack Obama hosts an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, on Aug. 10, 2011. It was t...

Horses who race at Saratoga Racecourse get worked out at the Oklahoma training track, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug. 8, 2011. The Oklahoma training t...

Horses who race at Saratoga Racecourse get worked out at the Oklahoma training track, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug. 8, 2011. The Oklahoma training t...

President Barack Obama's place setting at an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, on Aug. 10, 2...

Ed Hendrickson shows his hat autographed by Herman Cain, a Republican presidential candidate, at the Dickinson County GOP Picnic in Okoboji, Iowa, on...

Herman Cain, a Republican presidential candidate, greets a supporter at the Dickinson County GOP Picnic in Okoboji, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2011. Major con...

FILE -- Henry Hynoski carries the ball during a New York Giants practice at the team's training facility in East Rutherford, N.J., July 31, 2011. As t...

Horses who race at Saratoga Racecourse get worked out at the Oklahoma training track, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Aug. 8, 2011. The Oklahoma training t...

President Barack Obama hosts an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, on Aug. 10, 2011. It was t...

Raylene Lewis, with her daughter, Rilynn, 5, whom a test from a now-defunct company indicated was going to be a boy, at their home in College Station,...

Raylene Lewis, with her daughter, Rilynn, 5, whom a test from a now-defunct company indicated was going to be a boy, at their home in College Station,...

A herd of goats graze on dried brush beneath the Angels Flight railway, in Los Angeles, Aug. 8, 2011. For the fourth year, the goats from Environmenta...

A woman photographs a goat from a herd brought in to graze on dried brush beneath the Angels Flight railway, in Los Angeles, Aug. 8, 2011. For the fou...

President Barack Obama's motorcade during his arrival at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Aug. 9, 2011. Obama made the unannounced trip to Dover t...

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) speaks with a local resident at a town hall event during a campaign stop in Sioux Ci...

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) greets locals at a town hall event during a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa, Aug....

Local residents listen to Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) speak at a campaign stop in Arnolds Park, Iowa, Aug. 9, 20...

Johnny Gonzalez, the flock manager for Environmental Land Management, holds a kid goat from a herd that was brought in to graze on dried brush beneath...

A message on a bus in part of the "Values Voter Bus Tour," organized by a group of conservative organizations, at an event where Tim Pawlenty, former...

A pair of goats from a herd brought in to graze on dried brush beneath the Angels Flight railway, in Los Angeles, Aug. 8, 2011. For the fourth year, t...

Dr. Diana Bianchi, executive director of the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center, in her lab at the facility in Boston, Aug. 9, 2...

Javier de la Cueva, a lawyer specializing in the relationship between law and technology, during an interview at his office, in Madrid, July 7, 2011....

Marine One, left, en route with President Barack Obama to Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Aug. 9, 2011. Obama made the unannounced trip to Dover...

Mohammed Rahman, who operates the Fahima Halal food cart, brushes butter onto a row of cooking hotdogs, in New York, Aug. 1, 2011. The New York hot d...

Analleli Rios Ramirez drives her packed pick-up truck toward Nogales, Ariz., where she will meet her husband and travel into Mexico where she plans to...

A gallery of Italian Renaissance and Baroque sculptures at the Bode Museum, a World Heritage Site, which house a extensive collection of sculptures, o...

Earl Holland, who was a paramedic supervisor for North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System when he responded to the disaster after the second World...

Fernando Perez, director of the Spanish government's official gazette "Boletin Oficial del Estado," at his office, in Madrid, July 7, 2011. The Spanis...

Nerlens Noel, a 6-foot-11 high school junior considered one of the top five basketball prospects nationally in his class, on the court at the Elite Yo...

Nerlens Noel, a 6-foot-11 high school junior considered one of the top five basketball prospects nationally in his class, signs an autograph at the El...

President Barack Obama's motorcade during his departure from Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Aug. 9, 2011. Obama made the unannounced trip to Dov...