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Sam Kass, 29, the assistant White House chef, helps out at The White House Healthy Kids Fair on the South Lawn Wednesday, October 21, 2009. (Matt Roth...

Sam Kass, 29, the assistant White House chef, helps out at The White House Healthy Kids Fair on the South Lawn Wednesday, October 21, 2009. (Matt Roth...

Willem Dafoe in New York in September 2009. Dafoe opens at the Public Theater on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant." Strange is a...

Willem Dafoe in New York in September 2009. Dafoe opens at the Public Theater on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Richard Foreman's "Idiot Savant." Strange is a...

Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of the Galleon Group, a major hedge fund, is led in handcuffs from FBI headquarters in New York on Friday, Oct.16,...

The entrance to a medical marijuana distributor on Melrose Boulevard in Los Angeles on Oct. 15, 2009. People who use marijuana for medical purposes an...

An employee displays two varieties of marijuana at the Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana distributor in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2009....

Several varieties of marijuana are displayed at the Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana distributor in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2009. Peo...

**FILE PHOTO** Rob Mooney, 49, of East Providence, R.I., pictured on July 29, 2009, uses medical marijuana to ease severe back pain. People who use ma...

From left, Anthony Lindsey helps Sean Heindel make a selection at the Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana distributor in Oakland, Calif., on...

Robert Stevenson, president and chief executive officer of Eastman Machine, a manufacturing facility owned by the Stevenson family for over 100 years,...

Robert Stevenson, left, president and chief executive officer, with an employee at Eastman Machine, a manufacturing facility owned by the Stevenson fa...

A replica of the Our Lady of Suyapa figurine is tucked away at the back of the restaurant La Terraza de Don Pepe in Tegucigalpa on Oct. 18, 2009. The...

A replica of the Our Lady of Suyapa figurine is tucked away at the back of the restaurant La Terraza de Don Pepe in Tegucigalpa on Oct. 18, 2009. The...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) listen to questions from reporters at the White House after a mee...

KaChing's chief executive, Andy Rachleff, left, and founder, Daniel Carroll, outside the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 14, 2009. They are trying to...

Students at a medical college in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1956. From presidential confidants in the White House Situation Room to anchors on cable televi...

*FILE PHOTO* -- Workers at a coat factory that sold to the United States in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1970. From presidential confidants in the White Hous...

A view of a well-tended royal palace and gardens in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1961. From presidential confidants in the White House Situation Room to anch...

*FILE PHOTO* -- A photographer takes a portrait outside a photo studio in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1961. From presidential confidants in the White House...

*FILE PHOTO* -- Women in Western-style dress in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1961. From presidential confidants in the White House Situation Room to anchors...

Representative Earl Blumenauer in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington in October 2009. Blumenauer should be experiencing the most fulfilling days...

Representative Earl Blumenauer in Washington in October 2009. Blumenauer should be experiencing the most fulfilling days of his more than 35 years in...

Harborside Health Center, a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif., is looked upon as a model of how others could operate in Octobe...

*FILE PHOTO* -- David Rohde with villagers in Helmand Province, in southern Afghanistan, in the late summer of 2007, about a year before he was kidnap...

*FILE PHOTO* -- David Rohde interviewed villagers in Helmand Province, in southern Afghanistan, in the late summer of 2007, about a year before he was...

A grower in a house in Berkeley, Calif., who said he could grow three crops a year, each worth about $40,000 in October 2009. There are more marijuana...

A medical marijuana dispensary on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif., in October 2009. There are more marijuana stores in Los Angeles th...

*FILE PHOTO* -- Donald and Sally Kaufman holding a Rolls-Royce model from 1928 in front of his antique toy car collection in Richmond, Mass., in April...

Jefferson Morley, a journalist and writer, holds up an old issue of Life magazine with a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald on the cover in his office in Wash...

Jefferson Morley, a journalist and writer, in his office in Washington on Oct. 8, 2009. Morley has fought to have the CIA release documents involving...

Jefferson Morley, a journalist and writer, in his office in Washington on Oct. 8, 2009. Morley has fought to have the CIA release documents involving...

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney, smiles while speaking to reporters about the arrests of Raj Rajaratnam and others on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009....

Raj Rajaratnam is escorted by FBI agents after being taken into custody in New York on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Rajaratnam, head of Galleon Group, was a...

Marc Paganini of American Eurocopter in his office in Dallas in October 2009. "We knew if we built here, we could sell here," said Paganini. Its paren...

President Barack Obama greets Corps of Cadets members Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Obama joined former Pr...

President Barack Obama onstage with former President George Bush at an event on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, at Texas A&M University in College Station, Tex...

**FILE PHOTO** Opposition candidate Andullah Abdullah waits to speak at a news conference at his home in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Aug. 25, 2009 fil...

**FILE PHOTO** Opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah waves during a campaign rally in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, in this July 28, 2009 file photo....

**FILE PHOTO** Nan Robertson at her computer terminal at The New York Times in 1982. Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Times who wa...

**FILE PHOTO** Nan Robertson in a 1988 photo. Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Times who was widely known for her book "The Girls...

**FILE PHOTO** Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, arrives at a campaign rally in Dar-e-Kayan, Afghanistan, in this Aug. 1, 2009 file photo.The dis...

Judy Treml with her daughter Samantha, 5, at home in Morrison, Wisc., on June 3, 2009. Treml said Samantha was sickened as an infant when farm runoff...

EMBARGOED FOR USE - IN PRINT AND ONLINE - UNTIL SUNDAY, NOV. 1 OR THEREAFTER -- Actress Penelope Cruz and film director Pedro Almodovar, both of Spain...

EMBARGOED FOR USE - IN PRINT AND ONLINE - UNTIL SUNDAY, NOV. 1 OR THEREAFTER -- Actress Penelope Cruz and film director Pedro Almodovar, both of Spain...

The film writer Jenny Lumet, left, taking part as a mentor in a writing seminar for military veterans in San Antonio, TX on October 9, 2009. (Ben Skl...

EMBARGOED FOR USE - IN PRINT AND ONLINE - UNTIL SUNDAY, NOV. 1 OR THEREAFTER -- Actress Penelope Cruz and film director Pedro Almodovar, both of Spain...

EMBARGOED FOR USE - IN PRINT AND ONLINE - UNTIL SUNDAY, NOV. 1 OR THEREAFTER -- Actress Penelope Cruz and film director Pedro Almodovar, both of Spain...

Francis Morrisey is trailed by his attorney, Thomas Puccio, as he leaves the courthouse in New York following his conviction on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009...

Francis X. Morrissey Jr., a lawyer who did estate planning for Brooke Astor, the legendary New York society matriarch, in court before a jury reached...