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Tears and cheers co-mingle as Romanians celebrate the overthrow of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's treacherous despotic leader, during the early days of the Romanian Revolution. An emotional Avram Constantin (center) watches as a truck piled with war dead drives past, enroute to Bucharest's Belo Cemetery, December 1989.

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Students study in small numbers at the Mai Hoa AIDS Center in An Nhon Tay, Vietnam, because these HIV-infected children from the orphanage were turned away from a nearby primary school last month when the parents of the other students refused to allow their children to attend.

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A crowd gathers outside the funeral of slain TV reporter Rolando Santis in Guatemala City.

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At the research center at the Muhimbili University Hospital, "Professor Erici," to the right, is well known to everyone in the vicinity. Here, Eric Sandstrom is seen with the chief nurse, Mary Ngatoluwa, the medical officer, Suleiman Choum, and a visitor (to the left). The medical personnel are part of the HIV vaccine trials conducted by Professor Sandstrom in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.