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Children competed zealously at a pie-eating contest at the Durham
Barbara Anderson, whose parents marched for civil rights, walks through a sculpture titled ‘Police Dog Attack’ at a park in the Civil Rights District of Birmingham, Ala. The statue recalls the violence often faced by civil rights advocates. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Services at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta now take place in the new sanctuary across the road from the original edifice where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his ministry of nonviolence. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
During a preseason baseball game in Port Charlotte, Fla., the Howe family reacts as the Tampa Bay Rays tie the game with the Pittsburgh Pirates to go into extra innings. Taylor Weidman/The Christian Science Monitor
Turkhan Keller prays at sunset during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Iqra Masjid, Community and Tradition Inc., a place of worship for predominately Turkish Muslims in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ann Hermes/Staff
Adam Brock (l.) and Jamie Rebello install new energy-efficient windows at Benjamin Church Manor in Bristol, R.I. Their boss, contractor Brian Menge (not pictured), was able to expand his business through an emergency federal program. Taylor Weidman/The Christian Science Monitor
Residents at North Oaks, in Pikesville, Md., a continuing-care retirement center, attended a biweekly aerobics and conditioning class. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Diabetes researcher Nimit Dholakia works under a microscope with pancreatic islets isolated from rats at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Langer Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. Ann Hermes/Staff
Artist Max Bernardi works on a mural in the entryway of the House of Blues in New Orleans. Five years after hurricane Katrina, parts of the
Troquetta Sam, who was 5 weeks old when she and her family evacuated New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina, rides her bike near her neighbor's home, which is finally being demolished. Five years after Katrina, some parts of the city have been rebuilt and are prospering, while others are still derelict. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Oil booms protect the shore in Choctawhatchee Bay next to the Destin Bridge in Destin, Fla. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
A member of the Louisiana National Guard runs after hooking sandbags to a helicopter at a field in Buras, La. The choppers made 200 trips a day to Pelican Island, off the coast, to defend it from oil spilling from the blown out Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
A member of International Bird Rescue and Research scrubs an oil-soaked brown pelican, a victim of the Deepwater Horizon spill, at the Fort Jackson wildlife rehabilitation center in Buras, La. It takes 45 minutes to clean one pelican. The birds were then released in oil-free areas. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Sarah Palin was a guest speaker at the final rally of a cross-country Tea Party Express bus tour on Boston Common last April. ‘Boston,’ she told the crowd of about 6,000, ‘if anyone knows how to throw a tea party, it is you.’ Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
First-time politician Rick Scott, now the new Republican governor of Florida, during his campaign addressed a group at a town-hall meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Mr. Scott was buoyed by a Republican tide that swept the nation. Ann Hermes/Staff
Commuters walk to work from the 'T' subway at South Station in Boston, Mass. Taylor Weidman/The Christian Science Monitor
Day laborers wait for job assignments inside the Day Workers Center in Mountain View, Calif. More than 70 men and 30 women were showing up here every day when the photographer visited in January. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Kurt Harvey, owner of HI Cranes, operates one of his cranes at a work site in Avon, Colo. Mr. Harvey had to sell most of his cranes and lay off most of his workers to stay in business after the construction bust. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Calley Hastings leads the goats out of pasture just before a thunderstorm. Fat Toad Farm is a small, family-run dairy farm that produces goat cheeses in Brookfield, Vt. Joanne Ciccarello/Staff
This firefighter was among the hundreds at an August demonstration against the building of a Muslim conference center near ground zero in New York City. Ann Hermes/Staff
Twin beams of light shone into the sky from the ground zero site on Sept. 10 to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Ann Hermes/Staff
Lola Trojanovich (foreground) and her friends enjoyed their ice cream at Nona’s in Hingham, Mass., even though it was November. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Iraqi rowing participant Haider Nawzad stows his boat at the Riverside Boathouse in Cambridge, Mass., after rowing practice at dusk. Mr. Nawzad and five other Iraqi rowers were brought to the US in October to train for the Asian Games and compete in the Head of the Charles Regatta. Ann Hermes/Staff
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Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah will fight to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power. He also said Hezbollah fighers are fighting in Syria against Sunni Islamic radicals.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."
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