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Thursday: The day in photos

Running with the bulls in Pamplona

Remembering Michael Jackson

Military operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province

Fans mourn Michael Jackson

Mono Lake

Mono Lake Committee Executive Director Geoffrey McQuilkin walks along the west shore of Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra. Thirty years ago the committee sounded the alarm about the imminent destruction of the nearly million-year-old lake because of excessive water diversions by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Thanks to the committee’s successes over the years, says McQuilkin, the lake today is receiving the water it needs and Los Angeles is too, making Mono Lake a preeminent environmental success story. The committee and its 16,000 members are now trying to restore the lake and its tributary streams to health, protecting the lake from new threats and offering innovative educational programs for visitors and city youth.