Hookah Bar
Courtney VanHorn, 18, of Plum (left) and Kristen Erosenko, 19, of Monroeville spoke at The Sphinx Cafe, a hookah bar in Oakland, on Thursday evening, September 4, 2008. More than two in five college students have smoked tobacco from a waterpipe or hookah, and researchers are concerned because a third of those students otherwise would have been tobacco-free, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study.
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Fishing Feature

Donte Hall, 25, of East Liberty enjoys the warm weather as he fishes on the Allegheny River near Sharpsburg on Wednesday morning, September 3, 2008.
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Madden

Madden enjoys some ice cream on the front porch on Tuesday evening. I think he just enjoys anything that is messy.
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Obama
Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama along with running-mate Joe Biden and their wives campaign in Pennsylvania.
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