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A Secret Service agent guards his post on the roof of the White House as a lamp post is adorned with Chinese and U.S. national flags in Washington, DC, on Jan. 17, 2011

How the U.S. Can Manage Expectations of U.S.-China Talks

Why China's growing pluralism makes the "era of cooperation" that President Barack Obama is so desperately seeking so elusive

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A Voice Behind the Veil: Planning to Defy a French Law

In April, France will ban Muslim women from wearing the niqab, or face-covering veil, in public. Activist Kenza Drider calls the law unfair and Islamophobic, and says she will defy it.

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Desert Storm Revisited

Twenty years after the first Gulf War began: a familiar enemy, but a different result.

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Dakar Rally 2011

The world's most brutal off-road race runs in South America for the third year in a row

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The European Elvis Championships

Eighty contestants gather in Birmingham, England, for a whole lotta shakin', moanin' and rockin'

Photographs by Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images

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Wings of Mercy: Medevac in Afghanistan

TIME photographer James Nachtwey photographs the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Regiment

Photographs by James Nachtwey for TIME

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