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  • 27
    Sep
    2012
    7:37pm, EDT

    4,800 expected to receive free health care at LA clinic

    Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

    An eye examination is performed as part of a free health care service at the Care Harbor clinic at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Sept. 27 in Los Angeles, Calif. Care Harbor is expected to give free medical, dental and vision care to 4,800 uninsured patients at the event, which runs from September 27-30. In Los Angeles County it is reported that 2.2 million people do not have health insurance, which includes an estimated 227,000 young and school-aged children.

    Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

    People receive dental treatment at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.

    Thousands of uninsured or under-insured people have lined up to receive free health care at a four day clinic in Los Angeles, according to to NBC Los Angeles. Care Harbor, which sponsors the event, is prepared to give free medical, dental, and vision care to 4,800 people, according to Reuters.

    Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

    Bridget Turner, 52, second left, waits in line for an eye check at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.

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    People receive dental treatment at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.

    Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

    A woman hugs a doctor after her dental treatment at the Care Harbor/LA free clinic in Los Angeles Sept. 27.

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  • 7
    May
    2012
    12:27am, EDT

    Musicians pull out the stops at weekend music festivals in Memphis, New Orleans

    Jim Weber / The Commercial Appeal via AP

    Claudio Sanchez, frontman for the rock band Coheed and Cambria, plays a few bars with his face during his performance at the Beale Street Music Festival, May 6, in Memphis, Tenn. The weather cooperated for a third straight day as crowds gathered to watch Coheed and Cambria and other acts like Bush, Herbie Hancock, and Wiz Khalifa.

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    Kermit Ruffins performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, La., May 6.

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  • 15
    Dec
    2010
    7:24pm, EST

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    Farmland sits under flood water in La Victoria in southern Colombia, Dec. 15, 2010. An exceptionally wet rainy season has caused floods and landslides and killed dozens throughout Colombia.

    'La Nina' hits Colombia

    By James Cheng

    The AP reports

    Meteorologists attribute the rise in precipitation over the country to the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon, which is caused by a cooling of adjacent waters in the Pacific Ocean.

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  • 24
    Nov
    2010
    8:39pm, EST

    Iztok Bonäcina / ESO

    The stars rotate around the southern celestial pole during a night at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in northern Chile, as seen in this time-exposure photo released Oct. 25. The fuzzy parts in the trails on the right are due to the Magellanic Clouds, two small galaxies neighboring the Milky Way.

    Amazing star trails from Chile

    By James Cheng

    More great pictures from The month in Space gallery.

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    Tweezle, twazzle, tweezle, twho, time for this one to come home.

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