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The Space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va. on Thursday, April 19th. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The Space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va. on Thursday, April 19th. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The Space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va. on Thursday, April 19th. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery arrives by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va. on Thursday, April 19th. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va., on Thursday, April 19. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va., on Thursday, April 19. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va., on Thursday, April 19. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery does a flyby before arriving by 747 carrier aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Va., Tuesday, April 17, 2012. After completing 39 missions and spending 365 days in space, the historic spacecraft will make its final destination at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a Smithsonian museum, located in Chantilly, Va., on Thursday, April 19. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery, atop a 747 carrier aircraft, makes a flyover at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., on April 17, 2012. Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter will be placed to its new home, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly. (Associated Press)
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"To me, economic history proves that lower capital gains taxes grow our economy and higher capital gains taxes don't increase revenues." - Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who usually sides with Democrats, missed the vote but said he would have opposed the tax.
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**FILE** Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal, sits at the witness table as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigates wasteful spending and excesses by GSA during a 2010 Las Vegas conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A woman walks past a closed store in Madrid on Saturday. Spain is back in the center of the eurozone debt crisis as the interest rate on its government bonds rose Monday to their highest level since December, a sign that investors are becoming more concerned about the country's ability to afford its debts.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Jim Yong Kim greets an unidentified woman at a cultural center in Lima, Peru, on Sunday during a global tour that has taken him to Africa, Asia and Latin America to seek support from developing countries. He begins a five-year term as head of the World Bank in July. He was nominated by President Obama.
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Mechanic Doug Isonio works on parts for a Bay Area Rapid Transit subway train at the system's maintenance yard. BART still uses 449 of its original 669 cars from 1972, but circuit boards and other electrical components are no longer manufactured, so employees scour eBay and cannibalize some cars for parts. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A shopper carries bags of merchandise in Freeport, Maine, on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Steven Kaplan (right) works April 16, 2012, with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken April 13, 2012, and provided by CBS News April 15, 2015, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks during a pretaped interview for CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. (AP Photo/CBS News, Mary F. Calvert)
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Gas prices flying past $4 a gallon have played a big part in a surge in sales of hybrid and electric cars, including the Chevrolet Volt. In March, General Motors Co. set a monthly sales record of 2,289 for the Volt, an electric car with a small backup gas engine. It sold just 7,671 Volts last year. (Associated Press)
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Google Inc. announced Thursday that it earned $2.89 billion, or $8.75 per share, in the first quarter. That is up from $1.8 billion, or $5.51 per share, a year earlier. (Associated Press)
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Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on Thursday called for a worldwide safety net similar to the reserve fund that European institutions have created to bail out debt-ridden members. (Associated Press)
