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Camp Adder, August 2010

The First Battalion, 116th Infantry, a National Guard unit of 400 soldiers based in Lynchburg, Va., is slated to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces that foresees a reduction of troop strength to 50,000 by Sept. 1, 2010. Above, the soldiers depart from a promotion ceremony at Camp Adder, a base 220 miles southeast of Baghdad.

The Story of One Block in New Orleans

For the past four years, photographer Dave Anderson has focused on a single block of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A selection from his recent book, One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds.

Neighborhood View

Looking north on the aptly named Flood Street, now one of America's most famous neighborhoods because it was where the waters reached their height. Photographer Dave Anderson has been documenting the efforts of one blcok in New Orleans to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina since 2006.

Religion in the Ruins of Katrina

Destruction of St Bernard Projects, 2008, 7th Ward

Louisiana native Debbie Fleming Caffery was drawn to return to her roots in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Once there she found her focus in the details of the devastation.

The Ministry of Teresa

In 1948, when she was 38 years old, Teresa departed the convent in India she had been living in and set out to create her own ministry, the Missionaries of Charity, where she attended to the most forsaken souls in Calcutta -- the sick, the dying, the leprous. On top of that, she reached out to the city's many homeless children of the city, giving them shelter and love. The home she opened to welcome them, Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, above, admitted any child who arrived there.

Welcome to Prison Valley

Fremont County, Colorado, has made incarceration a local specialty industry.

Prison in Progress

Fremont County, Colorado, pop. 46,000, is host to 13 prison complexes. The county's latest project is Colorado State Penitentiary II, a.k.a. CSP II, above, currently being constructed at the heart of Cañon City.

Michelle Obama's Spanish Vacation

Making Preparations

Rumors had swirled that First Lady Michelle Obama was planning a summer vacation to Spain. And the hotel that had come in for particular scrutiny was the five-star Villa Padierna in Marbella, southern Spain.

Women of the White House Wear Oscar

In celebration of Chelsea Clinton's weekend nuptials, a photo retrospective of the designer's greatest White House hits. - Story by Feifei Sun

Friends in Fashionable Places

Fashion guru Oscar de la Renta has reportedly designed a dress for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, but his relationship with First Family women is far from nouveau. Since outfitting Betty Ford, his East Wing legacy has only grown. And in the sharply divided world that is politics, de la Renta is that rare figure that transcends partisanship -- he has dressed Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton (and says he voted for each of their husbands, too). Hillary Clinton accompanied de la Renta to the 2002 Council of Fashion Designers of America gala in a floor-length, pouf-sleeved ensemble.

Fishing Family

Raymond Landry Jr., his son, Raymond III, work the waters off of St. Bernard Parish. The spill occurred at the height of the crabbing season.

A Brief History of First Family Weddings

As former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton heads into her wedding weekend, TIME takes a look at other presidential kids and their nuptials. -- By Kate Abbott

Nellie Grant, 1874

Ulysses S. Grant's only daughter wed in the White House at the age of 18, in "perhaps the greatest American social event of the nineteenth century," according to presidential historian Doug Wead. Nellie's romance, which captivated the nation with its storybook overtones, began when she met Englishman Algernon Sartoris on an Atlantic cruise.

A Brief History of Women in Power

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka

Fifty years ago, Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected, becoming the first female head of government the world had ever known. Her victory was so groundbreaking, no one knew what to call her. "There will be need for a new word," London's Evening News wrote the day after she was elected as Prime Minister in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). "Presumably, we shall have to call her a stateswoman." Bandaranaike assumed the role of party leader after her husband was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. When her party won the July 1960 election, she took the country's reins and held them until 1965. She would serve as Prime Minister again from 1970 to 1977 and from 1994 to 2000. It was her daughter, who had become the country's first female President in 1994, who appointed her to her final term, though the position had become largely ceremonial at that point. She stepped down in April 2000 and died later that year -- on the very day she cast her ballot in the country's elections.

The 150th Anniversary of the British Open

Seventh Heaven

This was only the ninth major that South African Louis Oosthuizen has played in and the 27-year-old has missed the cut in seven of them. But seven turned into the key number for the player who goes by the nickname of "Shrek," as that was his margin of victory over the rest of the field. As a result of his shock win -- British bookmakers were offering odds of 250/1 beforehand -- Oosthuizen has shot up from 54th to 15th in the world rankings.

George Steinbrenner, 1930-2010

Family Business

Before he was ever a New York Yankee, George Steinbrenner III was born into an Ohio shipping family. After attending Williams college, Steinbrenner served a stint in the U.S. Air Force, picked up a master's degree in physical education from Ohio State University and went on to assistant football-coaching positions at Northwestern and Purdue universities. In 1957, Steinbrenner returned to Ohio to help run his father's Kinsman Marine Transit Company and later the American Shipbuilding Company.

A Brief History of Royals in America

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth I, 1939

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth I became the first British monarchs to set foot in the U.S. when they arrived stateside on June 7, 1939. The visit had incredible significance. Not only was it a historically huge moment between the former colony and its ruler, but it also marked the dawn of American-British cooperation on the brink of WWII. Perhaps most memorably, the King and Queen enjoyed their first hot dog at a good old fashioned American picnic with President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor. While the King ate his by hand like an American and asked for seconds, the Queen daintily cut hers with a fork and knife.

The Salt Mine of Detroit

Detroit's Subbasement

The Detroit Salt Co. extracts salt from a mine that winds through 5 miles of tunnels beneath the city.

The Nominee

U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Obama's nominee to take the seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

Photographer Henry Leutwyler was given the rare opportunity to photograph the King of Pop's belongings as they waited in storage

From the book, Neverland Lost, published by Steidl

Red Jackets

Jackson wore the jacket on the left to the American Music Awards in 1984. The red lamé jacket on the right also dates to the 1980s.

Industrial Research Laboratory

In March 1876, after working in Newark for five years, Thomas Edison relocated his base of operations to Menlo Park, New Jersey. Though the young inventor had already secured numerous patents for a wide variety of devices, the period that he spent working out of the two-story structure in rural New Jersey, above, would prove to be particularly productive. In the six years that he and his associates worked there, over 400 patents were obtained.

The Rise and Fall of Stanley McChrystal

Four-Star General

General Stanley McChrystal was appointed commander of the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in the spring of 2009. In his initial assessment of the country McChrystal wrote that Afghanistan was on the brink of collapse. "Inadequate resources," he wrote, "will likely result in failure." President Obama subsequently approved the depolyment of 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan.

Teen Sailor Abby Sunderland Is Found

Setting Sail

Abby Sunderland, 16, gets a hug from a friend on January 23, the day she first set off in her 40-foot sailboat Wild Eyes in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

A Brief History of Pixar

Toy Story, 1995

Pixar brought the world "to infiniti -- and beyond" with Toy Story, Hollywood's first fully computer-generated feature film. The company became a household name overnight and started the studio down its path of critical and box office success.

A Brief History of the World Cup

Dream Debut

The first ever World Cup was held in Uruguay in 1930 to mark the country's centennial. And the host nation went and won it, defeating rival Argentina 4-2. Petty grievances are nothing new in soccer, and so it proved before the final, with neither side in agreement on whose ball to use. The solution? The teams played with Argentina's ball during the first half and Uruguay's in the second. It's a tough tournament to win: only seven sides have triumphed in the 18 World Cups that have been played to date.

In the Beginning

The son of a U.S. Senator, Albert Arnold Gore Jr. met Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson at the St. Albans School senior prom in Washington, D.C. The two hit it off and married at the Washington National Cathedral in 1970, shortly before he shipped off to Vietnam. They marked their 40th wedding anniversary on May 19, 2010.

Farewell to Gary Coleman

Child Star

Born in 1968, Coleman was raised by adoptive parents in Illinois. Because of a congenital kidney disease, his growth halted at an early age, so even as an adult, he never stood higher than 5 ft. He rose to fame when he was cast as Arnold Jackson on the television show Diff'rent Strokes.

Critters of the Gulf Oil Spill

Garfish

Venice, LA

The Emergence of Rand Paul

Fresh Face

Positioning himself as a Tea Party candidate, Rand Paul, an opthalmologist from Bowling Green, Kentucky won the Republican Senate primary in the state by nearly 24 points, despite the fact that his opponent, Trey Grayson, had received the support of powerful GOP figures like Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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