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Inspired by "Standing Man" Erdem Gunduz, protesters stand silently during an action at Istanbul's Taksim Square on June 23. Among the latest recommended reads from Tina Brown is a Foreign Affairs article on how Turkey's manipulates media coverage of political unrest. Burak Kara/Getty Images hide caption

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Tina Brown's Must-Reads: On Media, The People, And Strife

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Baby Veronica and her biological father, Dusten Brown, feed geese and ducks in April in Nowata, Okla. Jeremy Charles for The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption

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Happy Ruling For Adoptive Couple, Uncertainty For Baby Girl

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A Jordanian woman surfs the Web at an office in the Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 30, 2009. The country's government is under fire from media activists for blocking hundreds of websites across the kingdom. Ali Jareki/Reuters /Landov hide caption

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Jordan Accused Of Targeting Online Dissent

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Dingding Mao is a professional mourner, who is paid for her talents at singing the funeral dirge. This is a tradition that began in the Han dynasty 2,000 years ago. Courtesy of Wu Peng hide caption

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Belly Dancing For The Dead: A Day With China's Top Mourner

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Tech workers looking for jobs may think twice before looking at job ads that are targeted at Americans but actually are intended for foreigners. iStockphoto.com hide caption

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Some Tech Companies Find Ways Not To Hire Americans

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Las Vegas, the recession's foreclosure capital, is seeing a surge in single-family home prices. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Real Estate Sizzles Again In Las Vegas

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Safe cracker Elaad Israeli works the dial on an old safe found by the National Council of Women of the United States. Margot Adler/NPR hide caption

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Old Safe Reveals Historical Relics Of Women's Suffrage Group

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