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Mark Ndesandjo, half-brother of Barack Obama Jenny Lee for NPR hide caption

Jackson Strive: The movie might be shorter if he were just a little slower, but John Cusack's bookish Jackson Curtis always manages to stay a step ahead of the advancing abyss. Columbia Tristar Marketing Group hide caption

President Obama attends a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama following their meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Issei Kato/AP hide caption

The presence of water on the moon could enable astronauts to make their own breathing oxygen and to use the moon as sort of a space-based filling station. NASA/AP hide caption

The Boat That Rocked: Radio Caroline, broadcast at sea from the vessel Mi Amigo, was one of the many pirate-radio stations that anchored off the coast of England during the 1960s. The stations flouted British law with their illicit rock 'n' roll programming. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive hide caption