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Striking mineworkers are caught in teargas as police open fire on striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured. Police moved in on workers who gathered on a rocky outcropping near the Lonmin late afternoon, firing unknown ammunition and teargas. (AP Photo) SOUTH AFRICA OUT(Credit: AP)

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Rage Against the Machine takes on Ryan

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Buenos Aires supports aging writers

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Global pundits react to Ryan

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Pell Grant confusion

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Members of the Russian radical feminist group Pussy Riot stage a performance to support detained opposition activists. (Reuters/Denis Sinyakov)

Pussy Riot’s closing remarks

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Paul Ryan’s religion problem

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during the preliminary round of the women's Olympic gymnastics trials, Friday, June 29, 2012, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Jae C. Hong)

Does gymnastics derail puberty?

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Gold medalists Cao Yuan and Yanquan Zhang from China compete during the Men's Synchronized 10 Meter Platform Diving final (AP/Michael Sohn)

Do Olympians get OCD?

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Does Michael Phelps just hold it?

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Hungarian discus thrower Róbert Fazekas (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)

Olympics hall of shame

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We’re destroying the seas

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Covers look familiar?

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Will Wal-Mart eat L.A.?

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