Southern Sudanese rally on the streets of the southern capital, Juba, on Dec. 9, marking the one-month countdown until a landmark independence referendum is due. The vote could see Sudan's autonomous and mostly Christian south break away from the predominantly Arab and Muslim north. Peter Martell/Getty Images hide caption

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) listens to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Knesset last April. Bernat Armangue/AP hide caption

Angel Borges, matchmaker. Chana Joffe-Walt/NPR hide caption

Holly Petraeus with her husband, Gen. David Petraeus, at the 2009 Super Bowl. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption

Technicians work in the cockpit of a Boeing 787 at the company's production plant in Everett, Wash. Boeing plans to hire more workers in 2011. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption

Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter of Atlanta examine diplomas awarded during the University of Georgia's 160th commencement in Athens, Georgia, June 3, 1963. They are the first blacks to attend the nation's oldest land grant college. AP hide caption