Mia Love, the Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption

President Obama drinks a beer — that's presumably not from the White House — as he watches the U.S. men's basketball team play Brazil in an Olympic exhibition game in July. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, in the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., in January 1981. In his speech after being sworn in, Reagan called government "the problem." AP hide caption

New Jersey delegate April Bengivenga says two words describe why she became a Republican: Ronald Reagan. NPR hide caption

Rep. Paul Ryan claimed to have run a marathon in less than three hours. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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The iGrill on display at Macworld 2011in San Francisco. Tony Avelar/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

Many Copenhagen residents already travel by bike, and now the city is building high-speed routes designed to encourage commuters even in the outlying suburbs. Slim Allagui/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Striking Hellenic Postbank workers chat outside the state-owned bank's headquarters in Athens on Thursday. The union is protesting the government's plan to sell its majority share in the lender. Petros Giannakouris/AP hide caption

Members of the military listen to President Obama during his visit to Fort Bliss, Texas, on Friday. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption