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The living and dining area after remodeling in the home of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the 82-year-old sex therapist known as Dr. Ruth, in New York, Feb. 14,...

Eighth-Grade Entrepreneur Madison Waldrop shares sketches of her design concepts that are developed by her rendering artist, Lenka Marfoldy, in Chatta...

Andrew Montain plants turmeric, a rhizome that should grow roots and leaves in Minneapolis, Jan. 23, 2011. Modern changes in shipping and production p...

FILE -- Russell Peterson in 1979. Peterson, who helped develop Dacron as a DuPont research scientist before becoming a champion of environmentalism as...

Star anise pods containing seeds that should not float when dropped into water to produce plants, in Minneapolis, Jan. 23, 2011. Modern changes in sh...

Iraqi Kurds protest in central square calling for change in Sulaimaniya, Iraq, Feb. 22, 2011. Over the past week, a wave of sometimes violent unrest h...

A telephone lays broken and torched on the floor of NRT, an independent Kurdish television station that was set on fire on Saturday, in Sulaimaniya, I...

An opposition gunmen with a heavy machine gun guards the entrance of a rebel radio station in the eastern Libyan town of Al Bayda on February 23, 2011...

The original Libyan flag, which is now being used by government opposition, is displayed spray painted in the town square in Darnah, Libya which is c...

A man prays in front of freshly dug graves for protesters in Darnah, Libya on Feb. 23, 2011. The Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gadhafi, kept his grip o...

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a press conference regarding Libya's unrest, in Washington, Feb. 23, 2011. Oba...

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a press conference regarding Libya's unrest, in Washington, Feb. 23, 2011. Oba...

President Barack Obama speaks while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on at a press conference regarding Libya's unrest, in Washington,...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves the assembly chambers at the end of his state budget speech to a joint session of the New Jersey legislature in...

The terminal and hangar facility at Spaceport America, the country's first facility built for commercial space travel, in Truth or Consequences, N.M....

President Barack Obama walks off Marine One as he arrives at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Feb. 23, 2011. Obama earlier direc...

James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, at a protest against a budget bill in the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Feb...

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin speaks to the press after receiving a prank phone call in which he likened his actions to Ronald Reagan's firing of air...

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin speaks to the press after receiving a prank phone call in which he likened his actions to Ronald Reagan's firing of air...

John Hashey, the owner of John Hashey's Advanced School of Permanent Cosmetics, tattoos permanent eye shadow on student Audrey Durkin as other student...

Jeffrey Hollender, eco-guru and former chief executive of environmentally household brand, Seventh Generation, at his home in New York, Jan. 17, 2011....

Eighth-Grade Entrepreneur Madison Waldrop, 13, at her family's home in Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 20, 2011. Waldrop is developing a dress collection cal...

Cecilia Cassini, 11, and self described as the "world's youngest fashion designer" and a "kiddie couturier," in her family's home in Los Angeles, Feb....

Grant Mower, 12, in front of a set of his own designs at his home in Flower Mound, Texas, Feb. 18, 2011. At age 11, Mower won a design contest at a Da...

Cecilia Cassini, 11, and self described as the "world's youngest fashion designer" and a "kiddie couturier," in her family's home in Los Angeles, Feb....

Laborers wait for work as they nestle themselves from the cold on concrete blocks removed from a checkpoint near a crossing in Qalqilya, Israel, Feb....

A fig, split open to reveal the seeds, in Minneapolis, Jan. 23, 2011. Modern changes in shipping and production processes have hampered home gardeners...

Indiana state Rep. Terri Austin, a Democrat, checks her notes while Republicans call roll at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, on Feb. 23, 2011. Austin...

With the absence of police a member of the Libyan opposition directs traffic near the town square in Darnah, Libya on Feb. 23, 2011. The Libyan leade...

A local Libyan man steps on the broken portrait of Col. Muammar Gadhafi, the Libyan leader, in an act of disrespect at the looted al La Braq airport c...

A small group of protesters occupy the town square while displaying the original Libyan flag in Darnah, Libya on Feb. 23, 2011. The Libyan leader, Co...

President Barack Obama speaks while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on at a press conference regarding Libya's unrest, in Washington, Feb. 23...

President Barack Obama speaks at a press conference regarding Libya's unrest, in Washington, Feb. 23, 2011. Obama said the bloodshed is outrageous, th...

Mixed-media artist Aurel Schmidt in her apartment in New York, Dec. 31, 2010. Schmidt has built a career out of curating Corona bottle caps, Winston c...

The terminal and hangar facility at Spaceport America, the country's first facility built for commercial space travel, in Truth or Consequences, N.M....

FILE -- Joseph Flom speaks at the Oppenheimer Forum on corporate restructuring at the Hotel Pierre in New York, Oct. 5, 1982. Flom, who began as a top...

Magomed Yakubov holds a portrait of his grandson, Ali, a newborn child whose skin was imprinted with Quran verses, in Krasnooktyabrsk, Russia, Feb. 9,...

Lee Saunders, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, speaks at a protest against a budget bill in t...

Union firefighters march into the State Capitol during a protests against a budget bill in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 23, 2011. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walke...

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin speaks to the press after receiving a prank phone call in which he likened his actions to Ronald Reagan's firing of air...

Union firefighters march into the State Capitol during a protests against a budget bill in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 23, 2011. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walke...

Auto workers and other union members protest outside the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Feb. 23, 2011. Thousands protestors were present Wednesda...

Workers supporting the teachers' union protest inside the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Feb. 23, 2011. Thousands protestors were present Wednesd...

James Samson, foreground, and fellow members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, perform at the New York City Center in New York, Feb. 22, 2011. The com...

A unionized firefighter joins protests of a budget bill in the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 23, 2011. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who intr...

James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, speaks at a protest against a budget bill in the State Capitol in Madison, Wis.,...

Several of Derek Diedricksen's micro-shelters at his home in Stoughton, Mass., on Feb. 16, 2011. Diedricksen builds the structures out of mostly disca...

Derek Diedricksen in his "Boxy Lady" micro-shelter at his home in Stoughton, Mass., on Feb. 16, 2011. The micro-shelter, the smallest of those Diedric...

A flag is lowered to half-mast in memory of Jean and Scott Adam, who along with two companions, were slain by Somali pirates that seized their yacht,...

Grant Mower, 12, in front of a set of his own designs at his home in Flower Mound, Texas, Feb. 18, 2011. At age 11, Mower won a design contest at a Da...