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Boise State tight end Ritchie Brockel (40) runs into the end zone after catching a 2-yard touchdown in the first quarter against Louisiana Tech. Boise State won, 45-35, on Friday in Ruston, La.

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Amber Weiss and Sharon Papo, both of Berkeley, Calif., hold hands during their wedding ceremony June 17, 2008, at City Hall in San Francisco. Just what public schools will be required to teach about same-sex marriage has emerged as the central issue in the campaigns against same-sex marriage in both California and Maine.

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An International activist demonstrator shows a banner during a protest against the separation barrier Friday in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he does not want to run for another term in the January elections, blaming a stalemate in Mideast peace talks on Israel and the United States.

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Joseph Hartstein receives the swine flu vaccination Oct. 26 at the local health authority in Dusseldorf, western Germany.

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This undated image shows a collapsed brine well near Artesia, N.M. State officials say a brine well in Carlsbad, N.M., has similar characteristics to this well that collapsed in July 2008.

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President Barack Obama casts a shadow on the wall as he walks to the podium to speak Friday in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

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Children play around a water distribution truck Friday in Filas de Mariches neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela. While Venezuela’s capital began water rationing this week amid a drought blamed on El Niño, large sections of the city’s hillside slums have long been coping with a lack of access to drinking water.

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Visitors relax Friday in a furniture installation titled “Phantasy Landscape Visiona 2” designed by Denmark’s Verner Panton, whose works are currently on display at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, in Weil am Rhein, Germany, traveled to Tokyo and opened to the public Oct. 17.

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New Mexico Oil Conservation Division hydrologist Jim Griswold tours the site of a July 2008 brine well collapse near Artesia, N.M. Deep concentric cracks have formed around the sinkhole as the ground continues to shift. The Oil Conservation Division says a brine well in Carlsbad, N.M., that is similar to this one that collapsed near Artesia has a high probability of caving in. The agency is closely monitoring the Carlsbad site.

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Edward DeSmet, left, and Srini Sundararajan adjust a crash dummy with an inflatable seat belt on a demonstrator at Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich. Ford plans to introduce inflatable seat belts, which would provide support similar to air bags, in the back seat of the 2011 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle, which will hit the market next fall.

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A welder works on the structure of a building under construction in the 4700 block of West Sixth Street on Friday. The weather was ideal for outdoor work, with temperatures in the 70s. The forecast calls for more warm weather this weekend, with highs in the 70s today and Sunday.

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Harry Huber sits by his organ in this Oct. 7 photo at the University United Methodist Church in Salina. Huber will retire as the organist after 58 years.

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Deerfield third-grader Amanda Stinnett practices writing a “W” in cursive Thursday at school. Teachers across the country are battling to save the art of handwriting as electronic forms of communicating gain cultural dominance.

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Leaders at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., are working on fundraising efforts for the building.

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The new Oread Inn, left, rises above the Ecumenical Christian Ministries at 1204 Oread.

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Eagle feather headdress from the Northern Cheyenne tribe in Montana, made around 1875.

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