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Get up close and personal with the famous faces of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyonce, Jamie Foxx and other celebrities.
 
Get up close and personal with the famous faces of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, including Eric Bana, Beyonce, Zoe Saldana and other celebrities.
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Get up close and personal with the famous faces of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, including Eric Bana, Beyonce, Zoe Saldana and other celebrities.
 
Every year, the people of Ipala, Guatemala, celebrate a decades-old tradition that brings together natives who left for better opportunities in America, and those who stayed behind.
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Every year, the people of Ipala, Guatemala, celebrate a decades-old tradition that brings together natives who left for better opportunities in America, and those who stayed behind.
 
 
For Michael Hayden, being called "two-faced" at the office is a badge of honor. The actor gives us a backstage look as he prepares to play the lead in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Henry V" and "Richard II."
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For Michael Hayden, being called "two-faced" at the office is a badge of honor. The actor gives us a backstage look as he prepares to play the lead in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Henry V" and "Richard II."
 
How Hollywood has chronicled the woman in white.
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How Hollywood has chronicled the woman in white.
 
In the age of digital music and the relative bargain of a single DJ, wedding singer Kenney Holmes is determined to keep it real.
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In the age of digital music and the relative bargain of a single DJ, wedding singer Kenney Holmes is determined to keep it real.
 
The new year meant the end of Halo Lounge, one of the city's top gay nightspots. It has been reborn as Mova, so we went back to see what has changed.
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The new year meant the end of Halo Lounge, one of the city's top gay nightspots. It has been reborn as Mova, so we went back to see what has changed.
 
It seems creative types are feeling a bit bookish these days. Chalk it up to the big-screen adaptations of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." Or maybe the geek-chic fashion movement has progressed to the worlds of publishing and perfume. Whatever the motivation, this sampling of new products takes Lit 101 to the next level.
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It seems creative types are feeling a bit bookish these days. Chalk it up to the big-screen adaptations of Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." Or maybe the geek-chic fashion movement has progressed to the worlds of publishing and perfume. Whatever the motivation, this sampling of new products takes Lit 101 to the next level.
 
A bonsai needs continual care and the artistic skills of its owner.
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A bonsai needs continual care and the artistic skills of its owner.
 
Celebs and politicians show their green side by sporting attractive -- and reusable -- shopping bags.
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Celebs and politicians show their green side by sporting attractive -- and reusable -- shopping bags.
 
The nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards -- hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin -- stretch from the mean streets of Iraq to another blue marble in space called Pandora.
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The nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards -- hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin -- stretch from the mean streets of Iraq to another blue marble in space called Pandora.
 
For the first time, the National Gallery of Art looks at the contributions of art collectors Chester and Maud Dale with this exhibition of 83 French and American paintings, including Auguste Renoir's "A Girl With a Watering Can" and Mary Cassatt's "Boating Party."
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For the first time, the National Gallery of Art looks at the contributions of art collectors Chester and Maud Dale with this exhibition of 83 French and American paintings, including Auguste Renoir's "A Girl With a Watering Can" and Mary Cassatt's "Boating Party."
 
Get up close and personal with the famous faces of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, including Conan O'Brien, Rob Lowe, Ryan Reynolds and other celebrities.
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Get up close and personal with the famous faces of Hollywood and the world of entertainment, including Conan O'Brien, Rob Lowe, Ryan Reynolds and other celebrities.
 
Beyonce's six awards set a record for most Grammys won by a female artist in a single night but Taylor Swift took home the evening's biggest prize, Album of the Year, at Sunday's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
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Beyonce's six awards set a record for most Grammys won by a female artist in a single night but Taylor Swift took home the evening's biggest prize, Album of the Year, at Sunday's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
 
Rockers, rappers and pop princesses rule the red carpet with individual style.
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Rockers, rappers and pop princesses rule the red carpet with individual style.
 
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A President's Retreat
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Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.

The Aswan High Dam is the starting point for a 690-mile journey along the river, through Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.

Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.

In the 25 years of the epidemic, treatment has improved, but the issues of social isolation, and, often, economic instability remain.