The University of California San Diego's engineering institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is illuminated by flames behind it in Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday. Thousands of people were driven from their homes, but officials tried to dispel concerns about the safety of sensitive lab materials. (Associated Press)
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David Mieler, a backer of Proposition 19, an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use, attends a Monday rally at the University of California at Berkeley.
** FILE ** John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)