© Brenda Ann Kenneally

Though Troy, N.Y., is still 80 percent white, black and Hispanic men moving into town from New York City have made working-class Troy a melting pot. Since the time of the Montagues and Capulets, romantic love can break old prejudices, and on a practical level many women see these street-wise young men as cash cows via the street drug trade–with the ability to make big, fast money that hometown boys working at the Walmart or local auto mechanic's labor for hours to earn.

© Sean Gallagher Photography

A mural of 'Eternal Leader' Kim Il-Sung in central Pyongyang, North Korea, 2009.

© Mark Allen Johnson

I'm on a video assignment for TIME.COM dealing with serial murder and long-haul truckers preying on women alongside America’s roadways. Since 2004 the FBI has reported that over 500 victims have been attacked or gone missing.

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Naib Naema Abde Mohamed, 14, displays wounds to her chest and stomach suffered when an Ethiopian shell hit her home in Mogadishu, Somalia, Aug. 21, 2009, in Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee complex in Dadaab, Kenya. Naib lost two brothers and her father in the fighting in 2008 and now lives with her mother in the Dadaab camp.

2009 © David Burnett / Contact Press Images

Demonstrators in the funeral cortege of Karan Nejayatollahi, the 27-year-old professor killed during a sit-in strike the day before, face off against the army. Tehran, Dec. 27, 1978.

© Derek Henry Flood

Female supporters rally at Kabul's sports stadium for opposition candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Aug. 17, 2009, days before Afghanistan's second presidential election.

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Niyonzima Joyeuse, 48, center, along with Furaha Olive, 17, left, rides in a jeep to her village in Rubaya, Masisi Territory, the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was returning home five months after her rape. Joyeuse and Olive stayed at a transit center in Goma along with 20 other victims of sexual violence before returning to their villages.