Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, second right, speaks with officials for various housing programs in Anchorage during a round table discussion in Anchorage, Alaska Tuesday Aug. 11, 2009 about the problems of homelessness and low income housing opportunities. U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, right, Dan Fauske, Chair for the Alaska Council on Homelessness, second left, and Jeff Jessee with Alaska Mental Health Trust, left, listen. Sec. Dovovan is in Alaska as part of President Obama's rural tour where cabinet secretaries and administration office tour the country discussing how communities, state, and the federal government can work together on low income housing issues. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, second right, speaks with officials for various housing programs in Anchorage during a round table discussion in Anchorage, Alaska Tuesday Aug. 11, 2009 about the problems of homelessness and low income housing opportunities. U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, right, Dan Fauske, Chair for the Alaska Council on Homelessness, second left, and Jeff Jessee with Alaska Mental Health Trust, left, listen. Sec. Dovovan is in Alaska as part of President Obama's rural tour where cabinet secretaries and administration office tour the country discussing how communities, state, and the federal government can work together on low income housing issues.

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  9. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
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