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17871539

17871539 - ID: 220066
created: 2009-09-18T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-22T00:00:00
Missoula, MT Missoula native Melissa Meyer graduated Summa Cum Laude in Business Admin at GWU this year. With a recession and no job opportunities, she returned home to Mom and Dad's place. It's not how she envisioned her post graduation but become an unexpected time out to rethink future plans and the various roads she could take in the coming year. PICTURED: Melissa rests at home after a six-hour shift at Rockin Rudy's. Tomorrow, she works two jobs. A six hour shift at Rockin Rudy's then a 4-hour stint as a hostess at The Depot restaurant.
source: 20090918/
by: Linda Davidson

17871507

17871507 - ID: 220057
created: 2009-09-18T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-22T00:00:00
Glacier National Park, MT Missoula native Melissa Meyer graduated Summa Cum Laude in Business Admin at GWU this year. With a recession and no job opportunities, she returned home to Mom and Dad's place. It's not how she envisioned her post graduation but become an unexpected time out to rethink future plans and the various roads she could take in the coming year. PICTURED: Meyer and boyfriend Will Freihofer take in the view at Glacier National Park during a quick weekend getaway.
source: 20090918/
by: Linda Davidson

18480811

18480811 - ID: 220041
created: 2009-06-15T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-22T00:00:00
SLUG: NA-VOICES DATE: Downloaded 11/17/2009, WLG. CREDIT: Peter Slevin / TWP Winona, Minnesota . Math teacher Christine Fladmark with husband Jesse, who is deployed to Afghanistan. One of his battle buddies was recently killed in an IED explosion.
source: TWP
by: Peter Slevin

18448229

18448229 - ID: 220036
created: 2009-11-14T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-21T00:00:00
GALLERY# SLUG: sp_mids15 DATE: November 14, 2009 CREDIT: Jonathan Newton/ TWP. Annapolis, Md SUBJECT: Navy-Delaware football game Navy QB Ricky Dobbs scores his 4th touchdown of the day against Deleware making it 21 on the season in the 4th quarter. He scored 5 and now leads the nation with 22.
source: 20091114\210652
by: Jonathan Newton

18516171

18516171 - ID: 220023
created: 2009-11-16T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-21T00:00:00
NA/FORT HOOD 20TH 36TH ENGINEER: KILLEEN, TX: Melina Mara The 20th Engineer Battalion and 36th Engineer Brigade lost four soldiers in the November 5th shootings. In preparation for the Battalion's deployment to Afghanistan, soldiers, as well as their families, prepare through a family readiness meeting and packing up items to take and not take overseas, at Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas, Tuesday November 17, 2009. SSG Allen Scott, with his wife Lori Scott, have gone through the experience of deployments... "but it is never easy." Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday, November 5th, that left 13 people dead and 37 others wounded.
source: The Washington Post
by: Melina Mara/twp

18519473

18519473 - ID: 220010
created: 2009-11-20T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-21T00:00:00
SLUG: sp-Caps 21 DATE: November 20, 2009 CREDIT: John McDonnell / TWP. Washington DC The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Washington Capitals 3 - 2.-- Caps John Erskine (right) tries to control the puck against Canadiens Michael Cammalleri.
source: 20091120\210842
by: John Mcdonnell

18380801

18380801 - ID: 219999
created: 2009-11-08T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-20T00:00:00
SLUG: ME-BLACKAIRMEN. DATE: November, 8, 2009 CREDIT: Katherine Frey / TWP. Ft. Washington, MD. Colin Banks, 17, wants to be a fighter pilot. In a nation where blacks have claimed the highest levels of sucess, few are pilots. Colin Banks keeps an eye on the runway as he makes an approach to Potomac Airfield in Ft. Washington.
source: 20091108\210493
by: Katherine Frey

18383929

18383929 - ID: 219969
created: 2009-10-04T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-19T00:00:00
Taruna Jaya, Borneo, Indonesia Advance story on the topic of climate change, global warming, around the globe. Indonesia is one of the worst offenders of carbon emissions which destroy the earth's ozone layer. Carbon emissions come from slash and burn fires started by land owners who are clearing the area for palm oil plantations. PICTURED: Just outside Palangkaraya shopkeeper Syamsudin (far left, he goes by just one single name) waters down the thatch rooftop of his home and shop to prevent it from igniting. Fires and white smoke in acres behind his home have been smouldering in his area for two weeks now. Syamsudin is the brother-in law of Idris Hadrianyani came by to help fight encroaching fires.
source: 20091004/
by: Linda Davidson

18471245

18471245 - ID: 219893
created: 2009-11-16T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-17T00:00:00
SLUG: ME-BLADE DATE: 11/16/2009 CREDIT: BILL O'LEARY/TWP The Washington Blade, the region's preeminent voice for the gay community, closes abrubptly by its' parent corporation. Pictured, reportrer Lou Chibbaro, Jr, who has been with the Blade for 33 years, ponders a reporters' question outside the office.
source: \20091116\000
by: Bill O'leary

18442997

18442997 - ID: 219886
created: 2009-11-12T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-16T00:00:00
NA/FORT HOOD MINDBODYCONNECTION: KILLEEN, TX: Melina Mara Fort Hood is attempting to lead the way in addressing the mental, physical and spiritual health of the Army with the Resiliency Campus. The campus is made up of the Spiritual Fitness Center, Army Center for Enhanced Performance (ACEP), varied types of counseling, and gym facilities that offers mind/body physical classes, with more of on eastern philosophy emphasis, like yoga and Cross Fit training, which attempts to address the integrity of the mind and spirit of the soldier... Killeen, Texas, Friday November 13, 2009. As new age music plays in the background, a piece by George Winston, a Fort Hood soldier sits in the peace of the Spiritual Fitness Center. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday, November 5th, that left 13 people dead and 37 others wounded.
source: The Washington Post
by: Melina Mara/twp

18386981

18386981 - ID: 219836
created: 2009-10-12T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-14T00:00:00
Near Palangkaraya, Borneo, Indonesia Advance story on the topic of climate change, global warming, around the globe. Deforestation from logging, a failed mega-rice project and now palm oil plantations are causing endangered Orangutans to lose their native habitat. Forests are slashed and burned leaving orphaned orangutans to the mercy of plantation growers or to black market sales. Nyaru Menteng, an Orangutan rehabilitation center has almost 600 of these rescued creatures at their center near Palangkara. PICTURED: Juvenile orangutans play in a sandbox filled with tree shavings during afternoon socialization at Nyaru Menteng.
source: 20091012/
by: Linda Davidson

18403057

18403057 - ID: 219717
created: 2009-11-10T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-11T00:00:00
NA/FORT HOOD MEMORIAL: KILLEEN, TX: Melina Mara President Barack Obama gave remarks along with General George Casey and Lieutenant General Robert Cone at the III Corps & Fort Hood Memorial Ceremony at Fort Hood, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in Killeen, Texas. The thousands of people in attendance mourned the loss of the 13 killed in last weeks shootings at Fort Hood. Some of the families of the dead as well as some of the injured attended the ceremony. Specialist Kham S. Xiong's, 20th Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, family cries in front his picture after the ceremony. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood Thursday that left 13 people dead and 37 others wounded.
source: The Washington Post
by: Melina Mara/twp

18381255

18381255 - ID: 219687
created: 2009-11-08T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-09T00:00:00
SLUG: SP-wiz DATE: November, 7, 2009 CREDIT: John McDonnell / TWP. Washington DC The Washington Wizards lose to the Phoenix Suns 102 - 90.--- Lto R: Suns Jared Dudley and Wizards Andray Blatche vie for a rebound in the 2nd period.
source: 20091108\210564
by: John Mcdonnell

18369033

18369033 - ID: 219660
created: 2009-11-06T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-08T00:00:00
NA/FORT HOOD: KILLEEN, TX: Melina Mara Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apartment is #9 at the Casa Del Norte Apartments in Killeen, Texas, Friday November 6, 2009. Hasan is alleged to have gone on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army Base that left 13 people dead and at least 30 others were wounded.
source: The Washington Post
by: Melina Mara/twp

18358361

18358361 - ID: 219616
created: 2009-11-06T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-07T00:00:00
NA/FORT HOOD: KILLEAN, TX: Melina Mara A candlelight vigil held at Fort Hood Stadium, Friday November 6, 2009 in Killean, Texas. Sgt. LeRoy Walker, Jr. cries during the service and the singing of Amazing Grace. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army Base that left 13 people dead and at least 30 others were wounded.
source: The Washington Post
by: Melina Mara/twp

18319051

18319051 - ID: 219535
created: 2009-11-03T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-04T00:00:00
GALLERY# SLUG: me_vagovnight_1 DATE: November 3, 2009 CREDIT: Jonathan Newton/ TWP. Richmond, Va. SUBJECT: Virginia GOP election night party. Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell (center) celebrates with Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli (left) and Lt. Governor Bill Bolling following McDonnell's victory speech Tuesday night.
source: 20091103\210501
by: Jonathan Newton

18300751

18300751 - ID: 219520
created: 2009-11-02T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-03T00:00:00
SLUG: ph-vagov1 DATE: November 2, 2009 NEG NUMBER: 210489 McDonnell Hqts Alexandria, VA PHOTOGRAPHER: GERALD MARTINEAU, TWP We photograph Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell at a rally at his Alexandria Hqts. as he shakes hands at the end of the rally.
source: 20091102/210489
by: Gerald Martineau

18305223

18305223 - ID: 219518
created: 2009-11-02T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-03T00:00:00
SLUG: PH-VAGOV-b. DATE: November, 2, 2009 CREDIT: Katherine Frey / TWP. Alexandria, VA. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds at a late evening rally at Market Square the night before the election. Creigh Deeds campaigns in Alexandria the night before the election.
source: 20091102\210498
by: Katherine Frey

18291601

18291601 - ID: 219498
created: 2009-10-31T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-02T00:00:00
NEGATIVE# josephm 210420--SLUG-SA-WEDDING2-DATE--10/31/2009--LOCATION- Mt. Airy, Maryland-PHOTOGRAPHER-MARVIN JOSEPH/TWP--CAPTION--Photos for the On Love wedding column. Christina Dorffner and Daniel Shank are Pagans who've been together more than ten years. They're best friends with -- and now under the employ of -- a third Pagan, Bunky Bartlett who won a $330 million lottery a few years ago. PICTURED, Best friends Daniel Shank and Christina Dorffner prepare to enjoy their wedding reception decorated with a Halloween theme.
source: josephm 210420
by: Marvin Joseph/twp

17306545

17306545 - ID: 219468
created: 2009-08-07T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-01T00:00:00
SLUG: ME/FIRE. DATE: August, 7, 2009 CREDIT: Marcus Yam / TWP. Washington, DC. Mayor Adrian Fenty gives a press conference outside the burned down Cafritz Mansion in Washington, DC on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009.
source: 20090807\209161
by: Marcus Yam

17298199

17298199 - ID: 219467
created: 2009-08-06T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-01T00:00:00
Maymana, Faryab Province, Afghanistan Afghanistan Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, center, arrives in Maymana, the capital of Faryab Province in Northern Afghanistan, on an old Russian aircraft for a rally on Thursday, August 6, 2009.
source: 20090806\
by: Nikki Kahn

17959079

17959079 - ID: 219460
created: 2009-10-01T00:00:00
published: 2009-10-31T00:00:00
SLUG: NA-BUGBATTLE DATE: October 1, 2009 PLACE: College Park, MD CREDIT: jahi chikwendiu/twp A group of scientists - including Alexander Enurah, Dr. Eric Brown (lead scientist), and Dr. Jie Zheng - at the FDA have made what appears to be a breakthrough discovery in the battle to control Salmonella bacteria. Their plan is to coat tomatoes and other vegetables with "good bacteria" that kills Salmonella, which sickens thousands of Americans every year.
source: /20091001/209982
by: Jahi Chikwendiu

18269619

18269619 - ID: 219451
created: 2009-10-30T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-01T00:00:00
SLUG: kabul018 INPUTDATE: 2009-10-30 12:25:30.360 CREDIT: Pamela Constable/STAFF/TWP kabul, , afghanistan shoe shine men outside a mosque in kabul say they have few customers because of the election-related economic slump Sent by: Pamela Constable Photo Editor:
by: Pamela Constable

18269629

18269629 - ID: 219446
created: 2009-10-30T00:00:00
published: 2009-11-01T00:00:00
SLUG: kabul015 INPUTDATE: 2009-10-30 12:21:18.093 CREDIT: Pamela Constable/STAFF/TWP kabul, , afghanistan javed hamid, 26, with wedding gown in his shop. he says families are scrimping this season by renting instead of buying wedding gowns. Sent by: Pamela Constable Photo Editor:
by: Pamela Constable

18272981

18272981 - ID: 219445
created: 2009-10-30T00:00:00
published: 2009-10-31T00:00:00
SLUG: PH-WOUNDED 10/30/2009 CREDIT: NIKKI KAHN/THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON DC U. S. Army First Lieutenant Dan Berschinski, 25, of Peach Tree City, Georgia, is fitted with a prosthetic by Michael Corcoran, partially shown at left, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday, October 30, 2009. Berschinski was injured in Afghanistan and lost both of his legs after stepping on an IED.
source: 20091030\210423\
by: Nikki Kahn