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An elf stands next to Marines while waiting to load toys on the Blue Angels "Fat Albert" plane at the Signature Flight Support Terminal at Ronald Reagan National Airport on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Toys for Tots is taking thousands of toys on the Blue Angels plane up to New Jersey to be distributed to families in six states affected by Hurricane Sandy. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Christopher Geldart, then-director of the Homeland and Emergency Management Agency, waits to testify at a public oversight roundtable on the Emergency Preparedness for the 2013 Presidential Inauguration, held by D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson Thursday, De. 6, 2012 at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. Geldart, the deputy mayor for public safety and justice, was part of an argument that briefly turned physical with another man around 12:30 p.m. Saturday outside of the Ballston-area Gold’s Gym, according to WRC-TV, the local NBC affiliate. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Hundreds of Bangladeshi mourners watch Nov. 27, 2012, as the bodies of victims of a fire in a garment factory are buried in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The factory did not have any fire exits for its 1,400 workers, many of whom became trapped by the blaze. Investigators said the death toll would have been far lower if there had been even a single emergency exit. (Associated Press)

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A Japanese dive bomber goes into its last dive as it heads toward the ground in flames after it was hit by Naval anti-aircraft fire during surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

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Tsunami evacuees watch TV news flashing a tsunami warning at their shelter Takata Junior High School that stands on a higher ground in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2012, after a strong earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan. It is the same region that was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami last year. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

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Safety Sean Taylor (21) was shot and killed on Nov. 27, 2007. (Peter Lockley/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

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**FILE** President Obama is greeted Oct. 31, 2012, by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport in Atlantic City, N.J. Obama traveled to the region to take an aerial tour of the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey in areas damaged by superstorm Sandy. (Associated Press)

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Van Metre Homes is building 76 single-family homes at Village Run at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The Manchester model, which has 3,132 square feet, is priced from $542,990.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis, here in 1995, is docked with the Russian space station Mir as the two spacecraft orbit the Earth. NASA looks lost in space and without a clear sense of where the agency is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts said in a critical report released Wednesday. (NASA via Associated Press)

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**FILE** This image from July 19, 2011, provided by NASA, shows the International Space Station photographed by a member of Atlantis' STS-135 crew during a fly-around as the shuttle departed the station on the last space shuttle mission. (Associated Press/NASA)

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Filipinos cross a river in the flash-flood-hit village of Andap in the Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country this year, barreled across the nation's south on Tuesday, killing scores of people while triggering landslides and flooding and cutting off power in two entire provinces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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** FILE ** This Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, file aerial photo shows a collapsed house along the central Jersey Shore coast. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007 file photo, smoke rises as Egyptian farmers burn their harvest remains in the village of Tamoh near Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)