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An official stands by derailed freight train tank cars in Paulsboro, N.J., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. People in three southern New Jersey towns were told Friday to stay inside after a freight train derailed and several tanker cars carrying hazardous materials toppled from a bridge and into a creek. At least one tanker car may contain vinyl chloride, Gloucester County Emergency Management director J. Thomas Butts told WPVI-TV. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Officials stand next to derailed freight train cars in Paulsboro, N.J., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. People in three southern New Jersey towns were told Friday to stay inside after a freight train derailed and several tanker cars carrying hazardous materials toppled from a bridge and into a creek. At least one tanker car may contain vinyl chloride, Gloucester County Emergency Management director J. Thomas Butts told WPVI-TV. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Officials stand by derailed freight train tank cars in Paulsboro, N.J., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. People in three southern New Jersey towns were told Friday to stay inside after a freight train derailed and several tanker cars carrying hazardous materials toppled from a bridge and into a creek. At least one tanker car may contain vinyl chloride, Gloucester County Emergency Management director J. Thomas Butts told WPVI-TV. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Officials stand next to derailed freight train cars in Paulsboro, N.J., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, after several tanker cars carrying hazardous materials toppled from a bridge and into a creek. At least one tanker car may contain vinyl chloride, Gloucester County Emergency Management director J. Thomas Butts told WPVI-TV. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 sits on its launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. South Korea on Thursday scrapped an attempt to fire its first satellite into orbit from its own soil amid speculation that North Korea was preparing to fire its own long-range rocket. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Jun-hee)
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Craftmark Homes is building 16 single-family homes at Fairview Manor in Bowie. The Kenwood model, which has 5,136 square feet, is priced from $656,900.
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** FILE ** People console a woman whose relative was killed in a fire at a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. At least 112 people were killed late Saturday night in a fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)
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With the help of a new Wal-Mart, Grundy, Va., is crossing into a new era after decades of an empty, flood-prone downtown that showed no sign of coming back to life. (Debra McCown/Special to the Washington Times)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian soldier (right) and others gather at an alley that was destroyed by two cars bombs in Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens stand near a burning truck that was destroyed by two cars bombs, at Jaramana neighborhood, in the suburb of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a man helps another man who was injured after two cars bombs exploded in the Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians gather at an alley destroyed by two cars bombs in the Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Hundreds who were affected by superstorm Sandy wait in line for distributions from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Red Cross and other aid organizations on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Paul Hunter, whose home was flooded in superstorm Sandy, waits for assistance at an NYC Restore location in the Far Rockaway section of the New York borough of Queens on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)