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Today's Photos

BY DI PHOTOSTAFF | JUNE 26, 2009 7:30 AM

Rachel Jessen/The Daily Iowan
A group of young girls bustle about after a performance at the Iowa City Public Library on Thursday. The group traveled from India to participate in the Happy Feet World Dance program, presented by the Iowa City Public Library’s Summer Reading program.

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Richard Saunders, the senior associate director of UI Human Resources, sits in his office in the University Services building on Thursday. While Johnson County may stop offering benefits for employees in domestic partnerships in light of a recent Iowa Supreme Court decision allowing same-sex marriage, Saunders said the UI will continue to offer the benefits because some couples may not want to get married.

Patrick Larkin/The Daily Iowan
Iowa sophomore Shante Jones, playing for Goodfellow/Imprinted in the Game Time League, goes up for a lay-up in the first half against Active Endavors/McCurry’s on Thursday in the North Liberty Community Center. Despite only having its starting five, Goodfellow/Imprinted won in overtime.

Photo illustration by Patrick Larkin and Joe Scott/The Daily Iowan
A man scratches at a colorful array of mosquito bites in a patch of woods beside Sand Lake on Thursday. While the flood is not responsible for any increase in the local mosquito population, the hot and humid weather could potentially lead to an increase in the number of mosquitos in the area.

Joe Scott/The Daily Iowan
A TV remote sits large next to a couch in Destiny Dodge’s apartment on Dodge Street on Thursday. Dodge is a member of www.couchsurfing.org, a website that lets users arrange to crash on each other’s couches while traveling.

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Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz converses with audience members before introducing Joe Ehrmann at the Englert Theatre on Thursday. Ehrmann coached one of Ferentz’s sons in football at the Gilman School in Maryland.