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Echinopsis x "Los Angeles," a plant at Peckerwood, gardens in Hempstead, Texas, April 6, 2012. At Peckerwood, groves of magnolias, oaks and sycamores...

Nolina nelsonii, a plant at Peckerwood, gardens in Hempstead, Texas, April 6, 2012. At Peckerwood, groves of magnolias, oaks and sycamores flourish, m...

Plants at Peckerwood, gardens in Hempstead, Texas, April 6, 2012. The vast majority of the some 3,000 plants in the garden are grown from seeds of dro...

Agave Aff. Protoamericana "Silver clad," a plant at Peckerwood, gardens in Hempstead, Texas, April 6, 2012. At Peckerwood, groves of magnolias, oaks a...

John Gaston Fairey, a teacher at Texas A&M University who built and named Peckerwood, gardens in Hempstead, Texas, April 6, 2012. At Peckerwood, grove...

President Barack Obama gestures as he jokes about needing a football helmet on the campaign trail in the coming months while speaking about the econom...

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, April 18, 2012. Obama is later scheduled to speak...

HGTV hostess Sabrina Soto, who grew up wearing lines like Hollister and Abercrombie & Fitch, in her apartment in New York, March 20, 2012. In a retail...

A mosque in mud-brick style in a walled Fulani village, a short boat trip on the Bani River from Mopti, Mali, in November, 2011. The Great Mosque at D...

The Great Mosque in Djenne, Mali at sunrise, Nov. 11, 2011. The mosque, a revered religious monument constructed almost entirely from sun-dried mud br...

A view of the Great Mosque from the door of the adjacent manuscript library in Djenne, Mali, Nov. 11, 2011. The mosque, a revered religious monument c...

Aging manuscripts at the manuscript library adjacent to the Great Mosque in Djenne, Mali, Nov. 11, 2011. The mosque, a revered religious monument cons...

The facade of the Great Mosque at Djenne, which is also the building's Mecca-facing wall, faces the city's main marketplace, in Mali, in November, 201...

A water-stained roof in the private library of the Djenne Mosque's imam, in Djenne, Mali, Nov. 11, 2011. The Great Mosque, a revered religious monumen...

Mud recoating for preservation on Mali's earthen mosques gives the buildings a hand-molded appearance, Nov. 12, 2011. The Great Mosque at Djenne, a re...

The mosque in the city of Mopti, located between the Niger and Bani Rivers, in Mali, in November, 2011. The Great Mosque at Djenne, a revered religiou...

A handout photo of President Dwight Eisenhower welcoming President-elect John F. Kennedy to the White House in 1960. The new book "The Presidents Club...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, takes the stage at the Lancaster County Republican Comm...

New Brooklyn storefronts mix with old near the Barclays Center in New York, April 11, 2012. As the opening of the Barclays Center, the Nets new arena,...

Paul Nation, owner of Flatbush Hardware, behind the counter of his Brooklyn store near Barclays Center in New York, April 11, 2012. As the opening of...

Brooklyn's Barclays Center is reflected on the window of Versailles Custom Dresses in New York, April 10, 2012. As the opening of the Barclays Center,...

Construction of Brooklyn's Barclays Center nears completion in New York, April 10, 2012. As the opening of the Barclays Center, the Nets new arena, ne...

Occupy Wall Street protesters sleep on the sidewalk near the New York Stock Exchange, April 16, 2012. Police arrested four people near the stock excha...

A captain with the New York Police Department orders Occupy Wall Street protesters off the sidewalk near the New York Stock Exchange, April 16, 2012....

A maintenance worker hoses down the sidewalk, displacing Occupy Wall Street protesters who had spent the night there, near the New York Stock Exchange...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, addresses the Tri-State Tea Party Caucus at The Frankli...

Marie Malchodi, a librarian at Brown University, looking an engraving inside a medical text depicting the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, at Bro...

Randall White, Educational Development Corporation chief executive, at the company's warehouse in Tulsa, Okla., March 29, 2012. In February, the Educa...

Workers prepare orders of books for shipment at the Educational Development Corporation's warehouse in Tulsa, Okla., March 29, 2012. In February, the...

Books are sorted into bins on the shipping floor of the Educational Development Corporation's warehouse in Tulsa, Okla., March 29, 2012. In February,...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Kermit the Frog before the start of the New York Yankees home opener against the Los Angeles Angels at Yank...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Kermit the Frog before the start of the New York Yankees home opener against the Los Angeles Angels at Yank...

An undated handout photo of Harvard University's Red Book. Deborah Copaken Koganm's new novel, "The Red Book," is based on the book that the Harvard g...

Christian Borle, an actor on NBC's new series "Smash," in New York, April 5, 2012. Borle is back on Broadway, after a four-year absence, playing a pir...

Christian Borle, an actor on NBC's new series "Smash," in New York, April 5, 2012. Borle is back on Broadway, after a four-year absence, playing a pir...

Christian Borle, left, and Kevin Del Aguila during a scene from the play "Peter and the Starcatcher" at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York, March...

Mixed martial arts fighter Matt Betzold at Fight Ready Fitness Center in Scottsdale, Ariz, April, 4, 2012. Betzold, who lost his left leg at the age o...

Mixed martial arts fighter Nick Newell at the Fighting Arts Academy in Springfield, Mass., April, 4, 2012. Newell, who was born a congenital amputee m...

George Zimmerman during his bond hearing at the Seminole County correctional facility in Sanford, Fla., April 12, 2012. Zimmerman was charged on Wedne...

George Zimmerman arrives for his bond hearing at the Seminole County correctional facility in Sanford, Fla., April 12, 2012. Zimmerman was charged on...

George Zimmerman, left, with his attorney, Mark O'Mara, during Zimmerman's bond hearing at the Seminole County correctional facility in Sanford, Fla.,...

George Zimmerman, center, with his attorney, Mark O'Mara, right, during Zimmerman's bond hearing at the Seminole County correctional facility in Sanfo...

George Zimmerman during his bond hearing at the Seminole County correctional facility in Sanford, Fla., April 12, 2012. Zimmerman was charged on Wedne...

The director Joss Whedon in Los Angeles, March 28, 2012. Whedon, who earned a rabid if cult following for his TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," le...

Veronica Vasicka, the founder of the indie Brooklyn music label Minimal Wave, in New York, Feb. 8, 2012. Since founding Minimal Wave, a seven-year-old...

President Barack Obama speaks at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., April 10, 2012. As part of a string of visits to Florida this week,...

President Barack Obama speaks at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., April 10, 2012. As part of a string of visits to Florida this week,...

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, surrounded by his family, speaks during a news conference at the Gettysburg Hotel in Gettysburg, Pa., April 10...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, campaigns at RC Fabricators in Wilmington, Del., April...

Wayne Lensing, the owner of the Historic Automotive Attractions museum, next to the tombstone of Lee Harvey Oswald at Lensing's musuem in Roscoe, Ill....