Mayor Knox White has led Greenville, S.C., for 15 years, and is running unopposed for another term. Here, he stands near a natural waterfall that's in the middle of the city's downtown, in a park that cost $13 million. "Within two years," he says, "over $100 million in private investment was created around the park." Julie Rose/WFAE hide caption

In this photo taken July 6, rebel forces chief commander Abdel Fattah Younes speaks during a rally in the rebel-held city of Benghazi, Libya. Libya's rebel leadership council announced the death of Younes on Thursday, hours after he was arrested by the rebels for questioning about suspicions his family still had ties to Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Sergey Ponomarev/AP hide caption

Tents burn on March 16 as Bahraini security troops raid the site of a pro-democracy sit-in at Pearl Square, in the capital, Manama. Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Kenny Buchanan, 44, dropped out of school as a teenager. He lost his job when the economy collapsed. Claudio Sanchez/NPR hide caption

A model of a storage container illustrates how used nuclear fuel will be placed in cast-iron inserts, then encapsulated in large copper cannisters and buried more than 1,500 feet down in the Swedish bedrock. Ingrid Becker/KQED hide caption

Doctors perform a kidney transplant operation in Spain in 2010. One in three people with kidney failure has antibodies that make it hard to receive a transplant, but a new treatment can get rid of them prior to transplant. Xurxo Lobato/Cover/Getty Images hide caption

Danny Lamont Jones, 16, doesn't live at the Rose Street Youth Shelter anymore, but he spends a lot of his time there. Chris Hartlove hide caption

The larger of the two Buddha statues that towered over the Bamiyan Valley in central Afghanistan. This photo was taken before a 2001 Taliban campaign that destroyed Buddha statues throughout Afghanistan. International teams are now working to restore the sixth century statues. Zaheeruddin Abdullah/AP hide caption

American jazz saxophonist Frank Foster performs on stage circa 1981. David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption

Two young women stood in silence Tuesday after placing flowers at a site off Norway's Utoya island, where a gunman killed at least 68 people. Ferdinand Ostrop/AP hide caption

Lauren Ortega, 20, has two young kids and is struggling to finish her GED. Claudio Sanchez/NPR hide caption

Lake Tahoe's South Shore as seen from a ski resort's gondola. Brandon Rittiman for NPR hide caption

Sometimes signs like this aren't enough to dissuade drivers who are blindly following their GPS. Krissy Clark hide caption

As part of her exercise routine, Curtis starts most mornings walking a gaggle of neighborhood toddlers to their day care. Tovia Smith/NPR hide caption

Constance Hockaday, the creator of the Boatel, stands under the sign announcing her art project/hotel at Marina 59 on Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York. Jon Kalish hide caption

Larry Holzman does a series of eccentric wrist exercises using a rubber bar called the Thera-Band FlexBar. Maggie Starbard/NPR hide caption