Week 3 Sept 07
091307-icecrack-210.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091307-icecrack-210.jpg Caption: A shiny ice path in the Arctic Ocean is photographed from a C-130 aircraft as it flies 30 meters above the ocean during an experiment designed to investigate the chemical and dynamic evolution of the troposphere over North America as winter changes to spring. (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/photo by James Hannigan)
091707_SpaceShuttle_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091707_SpaceShuttle_500.jpg Caption: The Space Shuttle Discovery sits ready on Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. NASA officials are hoping to launch the shuttle despite growing weather problems. (© AP Images)
091707_SpaceShuttle_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091707_SpaceShuttle_200.jpg Caption: The Space Shuttle Discovery sits ready on Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006. NASA officials are hoping to launch the shuttle despite growing weather problems. (© AP Images)
091707-pod-280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091707-pod-280.jpg Caption: Botswana: A worker stacks trays of melon seedlings to be transported to greenhouses for germination as part of a USAID program to improve farm production. (USAID)
091707_MLS_Soccer_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091707_MLS_Soccer_200.jpg Caption: New York Red Bulls forward John Wolyniec (15) and Chicago Fire defender Gonzalo Segares vie for the ball during the second half of an MLS soccer game Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Bridgeview, Ill. (© AP Images)
091707_MLS_Soccer_80x60.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091707_MLS_Soccer_80x60.jpg Caption: New York Red Bulls forward John Wolyniec (15) and Chicago Fire defender Gonzalo Segares vie for the ball during the second half of an MLS soccer game Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Bridgeview, Ill. (© AP Images)
091807_Application_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Application_200.jpg Caption: A woman applies mineral fertilizer to her crops in Benin. (Photo courtesy of International Fertilizer and Development Center)
091807_MaryHall_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_MaryHall_500.jpg Caption: Mary Ann Hall works for Rockport Publishing from her home Tuesday, March 14, 2006, in Rockfish Gap, Va. More than 30 years after the lifestyle began inching into mainstream corporate culture, and in spite of the potential pitfalls, there were almost 14 million Americans telecommuting at least part time in 2004, and an additional 7 million running businesses from home, according to the most recent Labor Department data. (© AP Images)
091807_MaryHall_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_MaryHall_200.jpg Caption: Mary Ann Hall works for Rockport Publishing from her home Tuesday, March 14, 2006, in Rockfish Gap, Va. More than 30 years after the lifestyle began inching into mainstream corporate culture, and in spite of the potential pitfalls, there were almost 14 million Americans telecommuting at least part time in 2004, and an additional 7 million running businesses from home, according to the most recent Labor Department data. (© AP Images)
091807_IBM-India_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_IBM-India_500.jpg Caption: IBM senior researcher Ashish Verma, left, explains his new speech software to Director IBM-India Research Lab, Daniel Dias, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006. IBM's India Research Lab has developed a Web-based technology for call centers that evaluates grammar, pronunciation, comprehension and other spoken-language skills, and provides detailed scores for each category. It uses especially adapted speech recognition software to score the pronunciation of passages and the stressing of syllables for individual words. (© AP Images)
091807_IBM-India_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_IBM-India_200.jpg Caption: IBM senior researcher Ashish Verma, left, explains his new speech software to Director IBM-India Research Lab, Daniel Dias, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006. IBM's India Research Lab has developed a Web-based technology for call centers that evaluates grammar, pronunciation, comprehension and other spoken-language skills, and provides detailed scores for each category. It uses especially adapted speech recognition software to score the pronunciation of passages and the stressing of syllables for individual words. (© AP Images)
091807_EJpress_130.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_EJpress_130.jpg Caption: EJ cover
091807_OvalOffice_280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_OvalOffice_280.jpg Caption: President Bush, right, meets with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
091807_OvalOffice_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_OvalOffice_200.jpg Caption: President Bush, right, meets with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
091807-dinner-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807-dinner-200.jpg Caption: Members and visitors gather for dinner in the main kitchen dining center on the deck. (Twin Oaks)
091807-carrot-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807-carrot-200.jpg Caption: Members of the community process carrots that will carry them through the winter. (Twin Oaks)
091807_NOAA_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_NOAA_200.jpg Caption: Richard Spinrad, NOAA assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research, and Widi A. Pratikto, Secretary General for Marine Affairs and Fisheries, sign a memorandum of agreement September 18 in Jakarta (NOAA)
091807_Parks-Arrest_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Parks-Arrest_200.jpg Caption: Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. She was arrested with several others who violated segregation laws. Parks' refusal to give up her seat led to a boycott of buses by blacks in Dec. 1955, a tactic organized by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which ended after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed that all segregation was unlawful on Dec. 20, 1956. (© AP Images)
091807_Abernathy_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Abernathy_500.jpg Caption: The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956, as a big crowd of supporters cheer for King who had just been found guilty of leading the Montgomery bus boycott. Circuit Judge Eugene Carter suspended the fine of $500 pending an appeal. King's wife Coretta stands next to him. (© AP Images)
091807_Abernathy_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Abernathy_200.jpg Caption: The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, shakes hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956, as a big crowd of supporters cheer for King who had just been found guilty of leading the Montgomery bus boycott. Circuit Judge Eugene Carter suspended the fine of $500 pending an appeal. King's wife Coretta stands next to him. (© AP Images)
091807_1988-Parks_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_1988-Parks_500.jpg Caption: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is seen in her Detroit home on June 22, 1988. Parks, 92, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. (© AP Images)
091807_1988-Parks_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_1988-Parks_200.jpg Caption: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is seen in her Detroit home on June 22, 1988. Parks, 92, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. (© AP Images)
091807_Parks-Obama_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Parks-Obama_500.jpg Caption: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at the funeral for civil rights activist Rosa Parks at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday, Oct. 24, at the age of 92. (© AP Images)
091807_Parks-Obama_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Parks-Obama_200.jpg Caption: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at the funeral for civil rights activist Rosa Parks at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday, Oct. 24, at the age of 92. (© AP Images)
091807_Parks-Arrest_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Parks-Arrest_500.jpg Caption: Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. She was arrested with several others who violated segregation laws. Parks' refusal to give up her seat led to a boycott of buses by blacks in Dec. 1955, a tactic organized by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which ended after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed that all segregation was unlawful on Dec. 20, 1956. (© AP Images)
091807_Ramadan_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Ramadan_500.jpg Caption: From left, Bayan Abbasi, Eman Tawara, Isra Qatanani and Amani Tawara break fast with dates before saying prayers at the American Muslim Union annual Ramadan dinner at Islamic Center of Passaic County Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, in Paterson, N.J. Amid worldwide tensions between Muslims and Christians, leaders of both faiths pledged Wednesday night to work together for better understanding in New Jersey. (© AP Images)
091807_Ramadan_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Ramadan_200.jpg Caption: From left, Bayan Abbasi, Eman Tawara, Isra Qatanani and Amani Tawara break fast with dates before saying prayers at the American Muslim Union annual Ramadan dinner at Islamic Center of Passaic County Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, in Paterson, N.J. Amid worldwide tensions between Muslims and Christians, leaders of both faiths pledged Wednesday night to work together for better understanding in New Jersey. (© AP Images)
091907_NOAA_280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907_NOAA_280.jpg Caption: Officials from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visit Indonesia to sign an agreement September 18. (NOAA)
091907-students-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-students-80.jpg Caption: Video of Ramadan
091807_Gorilla_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Gorilla_500.jpg Caption: A female mountain gorilla called Mugeni, 15, and her five month old son, Bonane, in the Kahuzi Biega Nature Park near the town of Bukavu , Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday, May 2, 2004. Thousands of farmers overran the forests of Congo's oldest national park - the separate Virunga national park , a World Heritage Site, slashing and burning whole kilometres (miles) in the latest threat to the home of more than half of the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas, conservationists and park workers say. (© AP Images)
091807_Gorilla_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091807_Gorilla_200.jpg Caption: A female mountain gorilla called Mugeni, 15, and her five month old son, Bonane, in the Kahuzi Biega Nature Park near the town of Bukavu , Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday, May 2, 2004. Thousands of farmers overran the forests of Congo's oldest national park - the separate Virunga national park , a World Heritage Site, slashing and burning whole kilometres (miles) in the latest threat to the home of more than half of the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas, conservationists and park workers say. (© AP Images)
091907-melnyk-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-melnyk-80.jpg Caption: Joseline Peña-Melnyk poses with her family at their home in College Park, Maryland. (VoteJoseline)
091907-chevron-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-chevron-80.jpg Caption: An orangutan in Borneo, Indonesia. The Chevron energy company supports efforts to protect the endangered species. (© AP Images)
091907-agriculture-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-agriculture-80.jpg Caption: A woman applies mineral fertilizer to her crops in Benin. (Photo courtesy of International Fertilizer and Development Center)
091907-Ramadan-210.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-Ramadan-210.jpg Caption: Imam Yahya Hendi chats with students at an iftar at Georgetown University in Washington September 13. (Janine Sides/State Dept.)
091907-shuttle-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-shuttle-80.jpg Caption: The space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 2006 (© AP Images)
091907-Jazz-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-Jazz-200.jpg Caption: Jazz musicians Paquito D'Rivera and Valery Ponomarev play at a concert in tribute to Voice of America’s Willis Conover September 17 at VOA headquarters. The multi-ethnic quintet included D’Rivera, who was born in Cuba, Ponomarev (Russia), and musicians from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Cuba. Conover hosted a popular jazz program on VOA from 1955-1996. (VOA photo)
091907-Jazz-500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-Jazz-500.jpg Caption: Jazz musicians Paquito D'Rivera and Valery Ponomarev play at a concert in tribute to Voice of America’s Willis Conover September 17 at VOA headquarters. The multi-ethnic quintet included D’Rivera, who was born in Cuba, Ponomarev (Russia), and musicians from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Cuba. Conover hosted a popular jazz program on VOA from 1955-1996. (VOA photo)
091907_Sinai-IowaNG_280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907_Sinai-IowaNG_280.jpg Caption: Staff Sgt. Gary Kilburg, Task Force 133, Iowa Army National Guard, participates in Expert Infantry Badge competition during Multinational Force Observer mission, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. (Iowa Army National Guard)
091907-willisconover-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091907-willisconover-200.jpg Caption: Willis Conover with Ella Fitzgerald (VOA photo)
092007-gas-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007-gas-200.jpg Caption: Existing automobiles can run on biobutanol without modification, and when it is blended with gasoline, as ethanol is today in many regions of the globe, it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum use. (© AP Images)
092007_Sinai-NG_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_Sinai-NG_500.jpg Caption: Members of Task Force 133, Iowa Army National Guard conduct medical evacuation training with Egyptian firefighters during Multinational Force Observer mission, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. (Iowa Army National Guard)
092007_Sinai-NG_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_Sinai-NG_200.jpg Caption: Members of Task Force 133, Iowa Army National Guard conduct medical evacuation training with Egyptian firefighters during Multinational Force Observer mission, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. (Iowa Army National Guard)
092007_Sinai-tower_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_Sinai-tower_500.jpg Caption: U.S. Soldiers on Duty at an MFO Outpost Near South Camp (GAO)
092007_Sinai-tower_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_Sinai-tower_200.jpg Caption: U.S. Soldiers on Duty at an MFO Outpost Near South Camp (GAO)
092007_VOA-Jazz_280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_VOA-Jazz_280.jpg Caption: Paquito D'Rivera on left (at music stand), George Mraz, center, on bass; and Valery Ponomarev, right, on trumpet. They are part of the multiethnic quintet that played a tribute concert for VOA jazz broadcaster Willis Conover at the VOA auditorium September 17. It was the final program in Washington D.C.'s third annual Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. The quintet included Cuban-born D'Rivera on clarinet and alto saxophone; Milcho Leviev (Bulgaria), on piano; Horacio Hernandez (Cuba), on drums; as well as Mraz (Czech Republic) and Ponomarev (Russia). (VOA Photo)
092007_HugoBlack_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_HugoBlack_500.jpg Caption: Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Feb. 25, 1966. Black was nominated for the Supreme Court in August of 1937. (© AP Images)
092007_HugoBlack_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007_HugoBlack_200.jpg Caption: Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Feb. 25, 1966. Black was nominated for the Supreme Court in August of 1937. (© AP Images)
092107-industrial-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107-industrial-200.jpg Caption: Primary sources of industrial pollution include power plants, smelters and refineries that pour oxides of sulfur, nitrogen and other gases into the atmosphere. There, the gases react with moist air to become acid rain. (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
092107_Journalists_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Journalists_200.jpg Caption: Journalists read opposition newspaper Tal Cual as they wait for a press conference in Caracas, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007. Comedian Laureano Marquez and Tal Cual's publisher Mosca Analfabeta, have been fined an estimated $18,600 by the government for "violating the honor, reputation and private life" of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's youngest daughter, Rosines, through a humorous column written by Marquez published in Tal Cual newspaper. Marquez must separately pay a fine of a yet-to-be-determined amount. The newspaper's headline reads "They will not shut us up" and back page reads "Don't take me so seriously." (© AP Images)
092107_RCTV_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_RCTV_500.jpg Caption: David Perez Hansen, a journalist for leading opposition TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) marches with his mouth taped shut at a protest against the removal of RCTV from the air one month ago, on Venezuelan Journalist Day in Caracas, Wednesday, June 27, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_RCTV_280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_RCTV_280.jpg Caption: David Perez Hansen, a journalist for leading opposition TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) marches with his mouth taped shut at a protest against the removal of RCTV from the air one month ago, on Venezuelan Journalist Day in Caracas, Wednesday, June 27, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_RCTV_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_RCTV_200.jpg Caption: David Perez Hansen, a journalist for leading opposition TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) marches with his mouth taped shut at a protest against the removal of RCTV from the air one month ago, on Venezuelan Journalist Day in Caracas, Wednesday, June 27, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_Protest_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Protest_500.jpg Caption: Venezuelan riot police officers hold flowers received from university students during a protest in Caracas, Monday, June 4, 2007. Roughly 10,000 university students marched through Caracas protesting President Hugo Chavez's decision to pull the plug on RCTV as the Organization of American States took up the issue of press freedom in Venezuela. (© AP Images)
092107_Protest_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Protest_200.jpg Caption: Venezuelan riot police officers hold flowers received from university students during a protest in Caracas, Monday, June 4, 2007. Roughly 10,000 university students marched through Caracas protesting President Hugo Chavez's decision to pull the plug on RCTV as the Organization of American States took up the issue of press freedom in Venezuela. (© AP Images)
092107_Journalists_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Journalists_500.jpg Caption: Journalists read opposition newspaper Tal Cual as they wait for a press conference in Caracas, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007. Comedian Laureano Marquez and Tal Cual's publisher Mosca Analfabeta, have been fined an estimated $18,600 by the government for "violating the honor, reputation and private life" of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's youngest daughter, Rosines, through a humorous column written by Marquez published in Tal Cual newspaper. Marquez must separately pay a fine of a yet-to-be-determined amount. The newspaper's headline reads "They will not shut us up" and back page reads "Don't take me so seriously." (© AP Images)
092107_Alps_280.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Alps_280.jpg Caption: The full moon rises behind the Austrian Alps, seen from the Arosa Weisshorn, 2653m, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006. Close to the horizon, the moon seems like an egg when it first appears. The skiing area of Madrisa can be seen in the foreground. (© AP Images)
092107_breakfast_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_breakfast_200.jpg Caption: The Hamad family and friends break their fast by sharing a festive meal, Sept. 30, 2006, during their observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at their home in South Bend, Ind. (© AP Images)
092107_Bagpipers_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Bagpipers_500.jpg Caption: Bagpipers from the Emerald Society of the New York City Fire Bagpipers from the Emerald Society of the New York City Fire Department make their way up Fifth Avenue during the 240th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York Saturday, March 17, 2001. (© AP Images)Department make their way up Fifth Avenue during the 240th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York Saturday, March 17, 2001. (© AP Images)
092107_SantaMaria_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_SantaMaria_200.jpg Caption: A model of the "Santa Maria," one of Christopher Columbus' three ships, is pulled up New York's Fifth Ave. in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral during the 56th Columbus Day Parade, Monday Oct. 14, 1996. (© AP Images)
092107_Float_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Float_500.jpg Caption: Thomas Borum, 6, rides on top of a float in the 27th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Sunday, March 11, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_Float_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Float_200.jpg Caption: Thomas Borum, 6, rides on top of a float in the 27th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Sunday, March 11, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_Dancers_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_Dancers_500.jpg Caption: Dancers from Woods School of Irish Dance, South Boston neighborhood in Boston, perform in front of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Sunday, March 20, 2005 before South Boston's St. Patrick's Day breakfast. (© AP Images)
092107_StringBand_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_StringBand_500.jpg Caption: Jack Hee, with the Avalon String Band, performs in the 27th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sunday, March 11, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_StringBand_200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_StringBand_200.jpg Caption: Jack Hee, with the Avalon String Band, performs in the 27th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sunday, March 11, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107_SantaMaria_500.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107_SantaMaria_500.jpg Caption: A model of the "Santa Maria," one of Christopher Columbus' three ships, is pulled up New York's Fifth Ave. in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral during the 56th Columbus Day Parade, Monday Oct. 14, 1996. (© AP Images)
092007-Ramadan-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007-Ramadan-80.jpg Caption: The nightly iftar dinner at Georgetown University offers Imam Hendi, right, an opportunity to greet students during Ramadan. (Janine Sides/State Dept.)
091707_MLS_Soccer_200_001.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/091707_MLS_Soccer_200_001.jpg Caption: New York Red Bulls forward John Wolyniec (15) and Chicago Fire defender Gonzalo Segares vie for the ball during the second half of an MLS soccer game Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, in Bridgeview, Ill. (© AP Images)
092107-YouTube-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107-YouTube-200.jpg Caption: Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., take part in the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN, YouTube and Google at The Citadel military college in Charleston, S.C., Monday, July 23, 2007. (© AP Images)
092106-utube-130.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092106-utube-130.jpg Caption: Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., take part in the Democratic presidential debate sponsored by CNN, YouTube and Google at The Citadel military college in Charleston, S.C., Monday, July 23, 2007. (© AP Images)
092107-StrawPollVideo-200.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107-StrawPollVideo-200.jpg Caption: Iowa Straw Poll
092107-StrawPollVideo-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092107-StrawPollVideo-80.jpg Caption: Iowa Straw Poll
092007-YouTubeVideo-80.jpg Url: http://photos.state.gov/libraries/usinfo-photo/4110/Week_3_09_07/092007-YouTubeVideo-80.jpg Caption: Democratic presidential hopefuls