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Yingluck Shinawatra speaks to the media the day after her party won an overwhelming victory in Sunday's national election. The party is loyal to Yingluck's brother former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images hide caption
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Civics teacher Devin Carberry talks about the bystander effect in relation to the Holocaust with his high school class at the ARISE Charter School in Oakland, Calif. Greg Miller/From the April 29, 2011 issue of Science magazine. Reprinted with permission of AAAS. hide caption
Two Girl Scouts want the organization to stop using palm oil in Girl Scout Cookies. They've started a petition and gathered 67,000 signatures. Andrew Prince/NPR hide caption
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While campaigning for president in 2007, Barack Obama, then a senator from Illinois, drove a bumper car with his daughter Sasha at the Iowa State Fair. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Zemore, 23, from Fredericksburg, Va., is a self-described troublemaker who liked to party too much. Zemore said he fell into the Marine Corps and now is on a Explosives Ordinance Disposal team, searching out bombs with a hand-held metal detector. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
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