Army Private Robert Dodge leans on a stuffed dog after his friend, Army Private Qualin Brown (left) won it during a game at the carnival at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in Houston.

2010 RoseQueen Casey McKay flexes her muscles and laughs with two participants while 2011 Jackson County RoseQueen candidate Quinn Fischman, 18, of Jackson gives Halle Arehart, 9, of Jackson a high-five for doing the splits August 3, 2011 between activities during the "Queen for a Day" event at the Cascades Golf Course clubhouse in Jackson, Mich.

Laura "Lola" Meske gives a customer a lap dance at The Foxhole Strip Club in Newcastle, Ohio on November 5, 2010. Night after night of physically taxing work, the 42-year-old Meske is able to go home and know that her family will be able to make it one more day. Personal pride is sacrificed to make ends meet. "Sometimes I feel bad about what I do, (but) at the end of the day, there's food on the table and my electric is paid and my rent is paid," Meske explained in a melancholy but matter-of-fact tone. "And that's what it all comes down to." After narrowly escaping her alcoholic ex-husband, Meske and her children moved into a trailer home directly across from the Foxhole so that Meske would not have depend on anyone to get to work.

Two men wait patiently for a presentation Sean Chercove in the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House.

A woman (name withheld) cools off in a channel together with her dog, after a torrid day in Letea, a village in Danube Delta, Romania.

A man is dressed as Bellflower from the Peter Pan fairy tales at the unofficial national championships for drag queens - men dressing as women.

A group of teenage ravers dance on stage at Unzipped: The No Pants Dance Experience presented by the Horrible Children promotion club in Atlanta, Ga., in the early hours of the morning on Saturday November 14, 2010. No pants were allowed inside of the venue, and acceptable clothing included long shirts, underwear, togas, boxers and dresses. A number of teens were high on ecstasy, acid, DMT and ketamine at the rave.

Fans relax in the setting sun as Explosions in the Sky performs at the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle on Sunday, July 24, 2011.