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Earlier today, host @marcowerman and producer Nina Porzucki prep for interviews in cab to Boston marathon site. #bostonmarathon

Earlier today, host @marcowerman and producer Nina Porzucki prep for interviews in cab to Boston marathon site. #bostonmarathon

Mexican President Felipe Calderón officially leaves office this Saturday, heading off to teach at Harvard. Most will remember Calderon’s six-year term for his violent war on drugs. More than 50,000 were killed in drug-related violence. 

Reducing violence will be a top issue facing incoming president, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or “PRI”. Myles Estey reports from Mexico City.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón officially leaves office this Saturday, heading off to teach at Harvard. Most will remember Calderon’s six-year term for his violent war on drugs. More than 50,000 were killed in drug-related violence. 

Reducing violence will be a top issue facing incoming president, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or “PRI”. Myles Estey reports from Mexico City.

Photo of the Day: The installation titled “The New Nomos of the Planet” by artist Haim Sokol is displayed at Krasnoyarsk Museum Center in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Photo of the Day: The installation titled “The New Nomos of the Planet” by artist Haim Sokol is displayed at Krasnoyarsk Museum Center in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

Photo of the Day: A Belarussian Emergency Ministry worker walks on barrels of pesticide at a burial site in a forest near the village of Savichi, some 99 miles southwest of Minsk. About 640 tons of pesticides, including DDT, were extracted from the ground due to pollution issues. The pesticides were loaded into plastic barrels and prepared to be transported and recycled in Germany, according to participants. (Photo: REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)

Photo of the Day: A Belarussian Emergency Ministry worker walks on barrels of pesticide at a burial site in a forest near the village of Savichi, some 99 miles southwest of Minsk.

About 640 tons of pesticides, including DDT, were extracted from the ground due to pollution issues. The pesticides were loaded into plastic barrels and prepared to be transported and recycled in Germany, according to participants. (Photo: REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)

Photo of the Day: New York police officers look at a man dressed as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a protest against Ahmadinejad outside the Warwick Hotel in New York. Ahmadinejad is staying at the hotel during his visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

Photo of the Day: New York police officers look at a man dressed as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a protest against Ahmadinejad outside the Warwick Hotel in New York.

Ahmadinejad is staying at the hotel during his visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

Photo of the Day: A man observes the artwork “You will not see me, You will not hear me” by Andre Banha of Portugal and Tomasz Cebo and Lukasz Milewski of Poland on the Cosmic Underground art train in Riga railway station. Cosmic Underground is a multidisciplinary train connecting East and West of Europe in the two-month journey from Estonia to Portugal and tells a story of time dimension through audiovisual installations, theatrical performances and live music happenings located in ten cargo train carriages. (Photo: REUTERS/Ints Kalnins)

Photo of the Day: A man observes the artwork “You will not see me, You will not hear me” by Andre Banha of Portugal and Tomasz Cebo and Lukasz Milewski of Poland on the Cosmic Underground art train in Riga railway station.

Cosmic Underground is a multidisciplinary train connecting East and West of Europe in the two-month journey from Estonia to Portugal and tells a story of time dimension through audiovisual installations, theatrical performances and live music happenings located in ten cargo train carriages. (Photo: REUTERS/Ints Kalnins)

Photo of the Day: Eszter Szlavi warms up before starting the Hungarian pole dance competition in Budapest. (Photo: REUTERS/Laszlo Balog)

Photo of the Day: Eszter Szlavi warms up before starting the Hungarian pole dance competition in Budapest. (Photo: REUTERS/Laszlo Balog)

Photo of the Day: A girl chases pigeons at Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu. 
The three-day festival, commemorating the union of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. 
Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting. (Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

Photo of the Day: A girl chases pigeons at Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu. 

The three-day festival, commemorating the union of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. 

Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting. (Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

Photo of the Day: Japanese designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the “Tallest Mohawk,” poses during the Guinness World Records 2013 book launch. Watanabe’s do stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)

Photo of the Day: Japanese designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the “Tallest Mohawk,” poses during the Guinness World Records 2013 book launch. Watanabe’s do stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)