Ai Weiwei (right) and art assistant Inserk Yang (left) inspect the construction of a new studio in Shanghai in 2010.

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A protestor in New York City holds a sign about Ai Weiwei's disappearance in April 2011.

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A foreign reporter photographs Ai Weiwei in front of the list of names of thousands of student earthquake victims, at his studio in Beijing.

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Ai Weiwei works on his computer in his Beijing home studio, as one of his dozens of cats looks on.

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Ai Weiwei paints handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds in Jingdezhen, China.

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Kyle Larson (32) goes into the catch fence at the conclusion of the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race Saturday at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.

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A guest with her Abraham Lincoln letter.

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Graphic cover of "Behind The Kitchen Door" by Saru Jayaraman

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David Putnam, producer of

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Producers and cast celebrate after winning best picture for

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The cast of

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Resurrection City on the National Mall was an attempt by the Poor People's Campaign to bring attention to poverty in America.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voices his opposition to President Obama's choice of former Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska as secretary of defense, on Capitol Hill last week.

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The Nordic design exhibit includes a lava rock, which Jukka Savolainen, director of the Design Museum in Helsinki, says reminds him of a gnome. The collection showcases the region's design roots, which include references to Bauhaus and 20th century modernism.

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The Hall of Nations is transformed by a plywood installation called

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Among the countries represented in the exhibits and shows at the Kennedy Center are Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Greenland. The festival attempts to answer the question, "What is Nordic?"

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Another home in the Five Nordic Houses exhibit was created by the Norwegian architecture firm Jarmund/Vigsnaes.

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President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. discuss the Voting Rights Act in 1965. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether a key part of the law is still needed nearly a half century after its passage.

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People walk down a market street in Eastleigh, a predominantly Muslim Somali neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2009. The neighborhood has come under scrutiny as the U.S. cracks down on terrorism financing.

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A woman shops in an Eastleigh market in 2009.

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