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Orion Stelzer, 18, jumps on a skateboard deck to ride down a hill in Aurora, Colo., on Dec. 6, 2011. The city hopes that being the center of a new Co...

Neighborhood youth gather while sledding in Aurora, Colo., on Dec. 6, 2011. The city hopes that being the center of a new Congressional district will...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during an international conference on the future of Afghanistan in...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton poses for photos with an Afghan women's civil society delegation during an international conference on the f...

Dr. John Willke, one of the founders of the modern anti-abortion movement, at his home in Cincinatti, Ohio, Dec. 3, 2011. Many activists and evangelic...

Gary Knell, NPR's new president and chief executive, on his first day at the public broadcaster in Washington, on Dec. 1, 2011. Knell's hiring comes a...

Gary Knell, NPR's new president and chief executive, on his first day at the public broadcaster in Washington, on Dec. 1, 2011. Knell's hiring comes a...

Cillian Murphy in "Misterman" at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York, on Dec. 1, 2011. The one-man show by Edna Walsh is set in an Irish village. (Sara Kr...

Cillian Murphy in "Misterman" at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York, on Dec. 1, 2011. The one-man show by Edna Walsh is set in an Irish village. (Sara Kr...

Cillian Murphy in "Misterman" at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York, on Dec. 1, 2011. The one-man show by Edna Walsh is set in an Irish village. (Sara Kr...

Oya Unustasi and Ahmet Tansu Tasanlar pose for a photograph dressed as Ottoman Empire nobles at a photo studio in Istanbul, on Dec. 2, 2011. Turkey, w...

Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) during a Veterans Day program at the Hartshorne Public School in Hartshorne, Okla., Nov. 11, 2011. The spreading wealth from...

The site of Camp Bucca, which used to be an American prison base, in Um Qasr, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2011. Basra Gateway, a new hotel that has opened within t...

Trailers once home to soldiers at Camp Bucca, which used to be an American prison base, in Um Qasr, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2011. Basra Gateway, a new hotel th...

Trailers once home to soldiers at Camp Bucca, which used to be an American prison base, in Um Qasr, Iraq, Nov. 21, 2011. Basra Gateway, a new hotel th...

PHOTO OFF VIDEO -- A screen grab of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, during an interview with t...

PHOTO OFF VIDEO -- A screen grab of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, during an interview with t...

PHOTO OFF VIDEO -- A screen grab of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, during an interview with t...

PHOTO OFF VIDEO -- A screen grab of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, during an interview with t...

PHOTO OFF VIDEO -- A screen grab of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, during an interview with t...

PHOTO OFF VIDEO -- A screen grab of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, during an interview with t...

A motorbike taxi driver drives down an expansive empty road in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Dec. 3, 2011. Myanmar's capital, Naypyidaw, is a costly monument to...

President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, Dec. 2, 2011. On Frid...

As President Barack Obama looks on, former President Bill Clinton makes remarks about a new energy effort at the 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW building i...

As President Barack Obama looks on, former President Bill Clinton makes remarks about a new energy effort at the 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW building i...

As President Barack Obama looks on, former President Bill Clinton makes remarks about a new energy effort at the 815 Connecticut Avenue, NW building i...

Actor Mark Ruffalo at his property in Callicoon, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Ruffalo has become something of a polarizing force in the movement against natu...

Actor Mark Ruffalo at his property in Callicoon, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Ruffalo has become something of a polarizing force in the movement against natu...

Actor Mark Ruffalo at his property in Callicoon, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Ruffalo has become something of a polarizing force in the movement against natu...

Actor Mark Ruffalo at his property in Callicoon, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Ruffalo has become something of a polarizing force in the movement against natu...

Actor Mark Ruffalo at his property in Callicoon, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Ruffalo has become something of a polarizing force in the movement against natu...

Actor Mark Ruffalo at his property in Callicoon, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Ruffalo has become something of a polarizing force in the movement against natu...

Actress Debra Winger, center, and actor Mark Ruffalo during an anti-fracking fundraiser in front of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York, No...

Zoe Cadwell in David Adjmi's "Elective Affinities," which is held at an Upper East Side apartment in New York, Nov. 16, 2011. Adjmi's play, a one-woma...

An Occupy LA protester at the camp outside City Hall in Los Angeles, Nov. 30, 2011. Whatever the long-term effects of the Occupy movement, protesters...

FILE -- Occupy Wall Street protesters stage a demonstration at St. Andrew's Plaza in New York, Sept. 30, 2011. Whatever the long-term effects of the O...

President Barack Obama greets supporters during a campaign fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel in New York, Nov. 30, 2011. Obama attended several campaig...

President Barack Obama greets supporters during a campaign fundraiser at the Sheraton Hotel in New York, Nov. 30, 2011. Obama attended several campaig...

Actor Dominic West at the Princess Victoria in London, Nov. 20, 2011. West will portray the role of Fred West in "Appropriate Adult," an ITV drama tha...

Actor Jonah Hill in New York, Nov. 6, 2011. Hill's new comedy, "The Sitter," where Hill plays a substitute babysitter, directed by David Gordon Green...

Actor Jonah Hill in New York, Nov. 6, 2011. Hill's new comedy, "The Sitter," where Hill plays a substitute babysitter, directed by David Gordon Green,...

Actor Jonah Hill in Times Square, New York, Nov. 6, 2011. Hill's new comedy, "The Sitter," where Hill plays a substitute babysitter, directed by David...

Actor Dominic West at the Princess Victoria in London, Nov. 20, 2011. West will portray the role of Fred West in "Appropriate Adult," an ITV drama tha...

Actor Dominic West at the Princess Victoria in London, Nov. 20, 2011. West will portray the role of Fred West in "Appropriate Adult," an ITV drama tha...

Actor Jonah Hill in New York, Nov. 6, 2011. Hill's new comedy, "The Sitter," where Hill plays a substitute babysitter, directed by David Gordon Green,...

Cillian Murphy in "Misterman" at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York, on Dec. 1, 2011. The one-man show by Edna Walsh is set in an Irish village. (Sara Kr...

Krystyna Chiger, a Holocaust survivor, at her home in Port Washington, N.Y., Nov. 28, 2011. Chiger is being portrayed by actress Milla Bankowicz in Ag...

Director Agnieszka Holland in New York, Nov. 22, 2011. Holland's new film "In Darkness" a drama based on the true story of Jews in Poland who escaped...

FILE -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks to the Iowa Association of Electric Cooper...

Nikah Dondero, who turned down a master's degree program after being disenrolled from her tribe, in Mariposa, Calif., Dec. 1, 2011. Clan rivalries and...