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Workers count banknotes of various currencies at the headquarters of the Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan's central bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. (Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Firefighters battle the Caldor Fire this month along Highway 89 west of Lake Tahoe in California. Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption
Bill Pennington in front of his Houston home, which has flooded every year for the past three years. Noel King hide caption
Another graduating class heads out into the world, ready to invest. Suharu Ogawa for NPR hide caption
