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In this Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, photo, Ajani Russell poses with her artwork "Female Figures" prior to the Animated Women symposium at California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, Calif. The California Institute of the Arts was created partly by Walt Disney's desire to bring more top-flight animators into the profession. And it has during its 47 years, though for a long time almost all were men. Now, nearly three-quarters of CalArts' more than 250 animation students are women, and there's a new goal: Ensure that when they land jobs, they get to draw female characters reflective of the real world and not just the nerds, sex bombs, tomboys or ugly villains who proliferate now. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) (AP)

No more nerds, sex bombs: Female animators draw away clichés

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Song to dying infant captures Internet’s heart

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Shah Bibi Tarakhail, a six-year-old Afghan girl whose love of painting won the hearts of U.S. doctors who fitted her with a prosthetic, is tickled by her host mother, Ann Drummond, at Shriners Hospital for Children on Thursday, June 19, 2014, in Los Angeles. Shah Bibi Tarakhail, who lost her right arm and right eye when she picked up a grenade following a firefight between U.S. and Taliban forces in her village near the Pakistan border, returned to the United States on Thursday, after the group that sponsored her first visit said it learned her newfound celebrity made her a subject of death threats at home. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (AP)

APNewsBreak: Threats bring Afghan girl back to US

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Why would gay ally Jonah Hill let fly with a slur?

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Schwarzenegger back, this time as think tank guru

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Screen siren Jane Russell dies

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In this Jan. 20, 2011 photo, Mark Volman teaches a class in music management at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Volman, who was a founding member and manager of the music group The Turtles, is an assistant professor and the coordinator of the entertainment industry studies program at Belmont University . (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) (AP)

College classrooms replace stages for rock stars

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Huntington Library gives Nazi papers to National Archives

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Rescued teen sailor’s family denies plan for reality show

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This image provided by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released Wednesday, March 24, 2010, shows a copy of a sign designed to placed in Nadya Suleman's yard for a fee to offset the cost of her mortgage. Suleman, the mother of octuplets and a total of 14 children, is in default on a $450,000 balloon payment due two weeks ago. A PETA spokesman says Suleman's attorney is considering the offer. (AP Photo/PETA) NO SALES (AP)

Will porn, PETA be octomom’s latest saviors?

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Rough economy? Just ask unemployed Spider-Man

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