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Daniel Raeder, 17, of Rockville, Md. , holds a rainbow flag by the Capitol as thousands of gay rights advocates rally in Washington, on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009.

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New York State Sen. Dean Skelos, R-Rockville speaks during an extraordinary session of the New York State Senate at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. , Thursday, July 9, 2009.

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Sen. Dean Skelos, R-Rockville Center, talks to reporters at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. , Friday, June 26, 2009. With two evenly-divided factions disputing majority control of the Senate chamber, senators met Friday in two consecutive sessions, the first attended by most of the...

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Driver Doug Donelan, of Rockville Center, N.Y. , and rider Sandy Harris, of Spofford, N.H. , keep a lead over Driver Andrew Fairbank and rider Kat Collins during the Sidecar Invitational motorcycles race during the Loudon Classic in Loudon, N.H. , Sunday, June 14, 2009. Donelan and...

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Mosquito dissectors work at Sanaria Inc. in Rockville, Md. , Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Researchers there hope to develop a malaria vaccine. Think your job's tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour. Gently, no smushing allowed: Malaria parasites lurk in these mosquitoes' salivary...

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Susan Pearlman of Rockville, Md. walks in her neighborhood path on Saturday May 2, 2009.

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This April 28, 2009 photo shows Novavax, a Rockville, Maryland, company that in 2005 turned its attention to flu vaccines, is testing cell-based technologies to enable it to produce a flu vaccine in as little as three months, half as long as traditional flu vaccine makers, which use an...

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Katina Economou, 79, of Potomac, Md. , holds a pin supporting the public health care option, during a rally to support health insurance reform in Rockville, Md. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.

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Health care reform advocates attend a mock funeral in Montgomery County as part of a day of protests nationwide, during a rally in Rockville, Md. on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. According to organizers of this rally, the casket was to honor uninsured Americans who have died from lack of...

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Anne Kasper, of Bethesda, Md. , lays a flower on a casket representing an American who died from lack of health care, during a mock funeral in Rockville, Md. as part of a day of protests nationwide, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.

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WASHINGTON - MARCH 31: Elle Orathai (L) and Yui Benjawan (R) of Rockville, Maryland, look at the pictures on a camera as they visit the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin March 31, 2009 in Washington, DC. The annual National Cherry Blossom Festival, which marks the 97th anniversary of...

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The sign outside the office of the lobbying firm KSA Consulting in Rockville, Md. , Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009.

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This photo taken Wednesday, July 29, 2009, shows would be kindergartners given hand sanitizer before going to lunch at a summer school program in Montgomery County's Brookhaven Elementary School, in Rockville, Md.

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In this July 29, 2009, photo, math teacher Peter Moore, third from right, teaches fifth grade pupils, from left counter clockwise, Exequiel Mendoza, Maira Gonzalez, Enrique Romero, Moore, Carmen Rosales and Alieu Crayton, in a stimulus-funded summer learning program at a school in Montgomery...

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In this July 29, 2009, photo, seventh grader Jenna Welkie, 12, helps fifth graders Nany Camara, 11, right, and Nancy Rocha, 10, left, with their math work, in a stimulus-funded summer learning program at a school in Montgomery County's Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. ...

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Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is seen at NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md. , on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, during an interview with the Associated Press.

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Adult mosquitos are seen through a fluorescence microscope at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's Insect Transformation Facility in Rockville, Md. , Wednesday, June 3, 2009. The glowing eyes indicate that the mosquitos have been successfully genetically transformed.

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Mosquito larvae are seen through a fluorescence microscope at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's Insect Transformation Facility in Rockville, Md. , Wednesday, June 3, 2009. The glowing eyes (seen as two glowing slashes in the head region - seen here as a black ball),...

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Robert Harrell looks at mosquito larvae inside an insectory at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's Insect Transformation Facility in Rockville, Md. , Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Think your job's tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour. Gently, no smushing allowed:...

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FILE - In this April 28, 2006 file photo, convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad gestures as he address judge James L. Ryan during a media preview before the start of his trial in Rockville, Md. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 will hear the case of Muhammad, who was...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: An Anhydro spray dryer, which will give the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant the ability to create tuberculosis vaccines in powder form, is seen May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Small glass vial like those that will hold tuberculosis vaccines move through a filling machine during a tour of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Manufacturing Associate Tina Miller demonstrates the machinery that will fill small glass vials with individual doses of a tuberculosis vaccine at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: Manufacturing Engineer Nate Forrest leads a tour of the area where small glass vials are filled with individual doses of a tuberculosis vaccine at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The...

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ROCKVILLE, MD - MAY 4: A guide leads visitors through the purification area of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundations' new manufacturing plant May 4, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland. The multi-million dollar manufacturing facility will be capable of producing 200 million doses of a new TB...