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ASSOCIATED PRESS Maryland coach Randy Edsall said he's comfortable going into the fall with two quarterbacks. He inherited five scholarship QBs when he was hired in January.
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Crystal Johnson (right), a supporter of the health care overhaul, argues with a protester outside the courthouse. Wednesday's nearly 2 1/2-hour hearing is the third time an appeals court has heard a case on the issue.
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Art restorer Andrea Morse, of Los Angeles, was hired by the city of Encinitas, Calif., to test ways to remove the mosaic of the Virgin of Guadalupe riding a surfboard without damaging it. (Associated Press)
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Art restorer Jessi Taylor, of Los Angeles, weas hired by the city of Encinitas, Calif., to test ways to remove the mosaic of the Virgin of Guadalupe riding a surfboard without damaging it. The unauthorized glass and stone mosaic was created in April under a railroad bridge by artists disguised as construction workers. (Associated Press)
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Betsy Burgess of Flowery Branch, Ga., protests President Obama's health care reform plan outside the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on June 8, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times Eric Schmitt told a Senate panel Tuesday, “I cannot say that even once my degree has opened any doors of employment for me,” but Kaplan said, “The experience of other students in his class was decidedly different. Of the others ... 13 of 16 [found a job].”
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An employee of the Werder Frucht company throws away tomatoes in Werder, Germany, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd, Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert)
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Associated Press MIT economics professor Peter A. Diamond said critics had failed to recognize the value of his expertise on the causes of unemployment in blocking his bid for a seat on the Federal Reserve board.
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Workers fill sandbags at Dakota Valley High School on Saturday, June 4, 2011, in McCook Lake, S.D. (AP Photo/The Sioux City Journal, Jim Lee)
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens on Capitol Hill on June 3, 2011, during a Republican news conference to respond to the May unemployment report. (Associated Press)
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President Obama addresses workers on June 3, 2011, after his tour of Chrysler Group’s Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio. (Associated Press)
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Job seekers in Los Angeles line up at the 10th annual Skid Row Career Fair, held at the downtown Los Angeles Mission on June 2, 2011. Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this April 6, 2011, photo, job seekers fill in applications as others in the rear talk to prospective employers, at a job fair in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, April 6, 2011. The labor force — those who have a job or are looking for one — is getting smaller, even though the economy is growing and steadily adding jobs. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Unemployed electrical engineer William Love of Pasadena, Md., whose unemployment benefits have been exhausted, fills out an application for a sales position at a job fair in Linthicum, Md., on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
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** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)
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NAVY ATHLETICS Navy lacrosse coach Richie Meade lost his job this month after the Midshipmen posted consecutive losing seasons. He had taken Navy to six straight NCAA tournaments between 2004 and 2009.
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Security officials and forensic experts work at the scene after a bomb exploded at a bus stop during rush hour in Istanbul on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Inmates pass the time in cramped conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court on Monday endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to improve overall health care. (California Department of Corrections via Associated Press)
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray promised that all contracts for more than $1 million would go to the D.C. Council for review, but a contract for school security remains unchecked. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Fieldworkers pick onion bulbs on a Vidalia onion farm in Lyons, Ga., on May 10. Concerns abound that new legislation meant to bar illegal immigrants from the workforce and giving local police increased enforcement powers will scare away Mexican laborers. (Associated Press)
