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Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan, which performed Bach's Mass in B Minor as part of the Japan Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York on...

Keisher McLeod-Wells at Gleason's Gym in New York, on March 9, 2011. McLeod-Wells, who has several New York Golden Gloves championships and 12 amateur...

Keisher McLeod-Wells trains at Gleason's Gym in New York, on March 9, 2011. McLeod-Wells, who has several New York Golden Gloves championships and 12...

Nancy Vermeer, the first teacher in her Christian school to divorce back in 2002, in her home in Sioux Center, Iowa, March 21, 2011. For the first tim...

John Lee, a young pastor who has tried to encourage change in his county by taking on taboo topics like divorce and mental illness in his sermons, at...

Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan, which performed Bach's Mass in B Minor as part of the Japan Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York on...

A young man has his car inspected by the police during an operation looking for drugs and weapons in Limon, Costa Rica, March 6, 2011. Violence and so...

A man is removed from a vehicle after he was shot in Limon, Costa Rica, March 6, 2011. Violence and social ills have been rocking Central America as a...

Reina Chinchilla, mourns over the body of her daughter, Karla Pinto, 23, a mother of three who was killed in Choloma, near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, M...

A police officer patrols a lab that was used to process cocaine in Cerro Negro, near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, March 9, 2011. Aggressive crackdowns on...

Police officers are briefed before an operation against drugs and illegal weapons, in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. Aggressive crackdowns on...

Fernando Ferre, 17, digs a grave for his neighbor Karla Pinto, 23, a mother of three who was killed in a shooting, in Choloma, near San Pedro Sula, Ho...

Young men are inspected by the police during an operation against drugs and illegal weapons in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. Violence and soc...

Francisco Reyes waits for members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard to finish inspecting his boat near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. Aggressive...

Police officers try to catch a young man accused of attacking his neighbor with a gun in Limon, Costa Rica, March 6, 2011. Violence and social ills ha...

A police officer patrols the area near a lab that was used to process cocaine in Cerro Negro, near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, March 9, 2011. Aggressive...

Members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard prepare to board a fishing boat to inspect it for cocaine near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. Aggressiv...

Members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard prepare to board a fishing boat to inspect it for cocaine near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. Aggressiv...

FILE -- Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her husband John Warner, former Secretary of the Navy, at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, June 9, 1977. Taylor,...

FILE -- Robert Ross, a entrepreneur who juggled global deals in things like fertilizer, pantyhose, steel and antisnoring medicine, on Jan. 7, 1992. Ro...

David Coggins, a writer, in his one-bedroom apartment in New York, March 11, 2011. Coggins is among a niche of people whose home reflects a nostalgia...

Dr. Leon Rozenblit, founder of Prometheus Research, in New Haven, Conn., March 15, 2011. Prometheus developed and original technology called HTSQL, wh...

Reginald Brack, a former CEO of Time Inc., in his apartment in New York, March 23, 2011. Brack did very well during his years as chairman and chief of...

Reginald Brack, a former CEO of Time Inc., in his apartment in New York, March 23, 2011. Brack did very well during his years as chairman and chief of...

FILE -- The Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer stack, right, at the NASA Michaud Assembly facility in New Orleans, Sept. 13, 2010. According to a rep...

FILE -- The Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer stack at the NASA Michaud Assembly facility in New Orleans, Sept. 13, 2010. According to a report rele...

FILE -- A portrait of former Cuban President Fidel Castro in September, 2010. Castro said Tuesday, March 22, 2011, that he resigned five years ago fro...

Ali Suleiman Aujali, who recently resigned as Libya's ambassador to the United States, at his home in Washington, March 18, 2011. Aujali is part of an...

A view of the Chengqi Lou, one of the "earthen buildings," in Yongding, China, Jan. 5, 2011. The building, called a tulou in Mandarin Chinese and buil...

An elderly woman washes clothes in front of a "earthen building," in Yongding, China, Jan. 5, 2011. The building, called a tulou in Mandarin Chinese a...

A view of the different forms of "earthen buildings," in Yongding, China, Jan. 5, 2011. The building, called a tulou in Mandarin Chinese and built by...

A resident looks downstairs at the Chengqi Lou, one of the "earthen buildings," in Yongding, China, Jan. 6, 2011. The building, called a tulou in Mand...

Ali Suleiman Aujali, who recently resigned as Libya's ambassador to the United States, at the National Press Club in Washington, March 18, 2011. Aujal...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

An aerial view of New York, March 3, 2011. Two hundred years ago on Tuesday, in 1811, the city's street commissioners certified the no-frills street m...

Ali Suleiman Aujali, who recently resigned as Libya's ambassador to the United States, with his grandson at his home in Washington, March 18, 2011. Au...

Abdullah Alsaidi, who recently resigned as Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations, in New York, March 22, 2011. Alsaidi is part of an extraordinary...

John Leguizamo in his solo Broadway show "Ghetto Klown," at the Lyceum Theater in New York, Feb. 20, 2011. Leguizamo's new show recounts his personal...

John Leguizamo in his solo Broadway show "Ghetto Klown," at the Lyceum Theater in New York, Feb. 20, 2011. Leguizamo's new show recounts his personal...

John Leguizamo in his solo Broadway show "Ghetto Klown," at the Lyceum Theater in New York, Feb. 20, 2011. Leguizamo's new show recounts his personal...

A festival-goer dressed in Hindu attire at the Phagwah festival, a Hindu holiday celebrating the beginning of Spring, in New York, March 20, 2011. In...

Artist and director Julian Schnabel in New York, March 16, 2011. Schnabel's latest film "Miral" is made from a novel by the journalist Rula Jebreal ba...