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San Diego Chargers tight end Antonio Gates scores a touchdown as Kansas City Chiefs strong safety Eric Berry hangs on during the first quarter of an NFL game Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
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Police and forensic officers examine the scene of a fatal shooting of a Northern Ireland prison officer on the M1 motorway near Lurgan, Northern Ireland, on Thursday. He was killed in an ambush as he was driving to work. (Associated Press)
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A yellow crane sorts out the rubble of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a collection site in northeastern Japan. Japan’s accounting of its budget for reconstruction from the disasters is crammed with spending on unrelated projects. (Associated Press)
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President Obama embraces Donna Vanzant during a tour of a neighborhood affected by superstorm Sandy, on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Brigantine, N.J. Ms. Vanzant is an owner of North Point Marina, which was damaged by the storm. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Storm damage along the Atlantic coast in Mantoloking, N.J., is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the Marine One copter carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on an inspection tour. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)
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Storm damage along the Atlantic coast in Seaside Heights, N.J., is seen on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the Marine One chopper carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on an inspection tour. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)
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President Obama (center), with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate, and other local and federal officials, speaks about the superstorm Sandy relief efforts while standing in front of North Point Marina on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Brigantine, N.J. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Wagner Homes is building 26 single-family homes at Canterbury Crossing in Severna Park. The Willow Brooke model has 2,700 square feet and is priced from $629,990.
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Donnie Roberts, a Louisiana parole violator, was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, for killing his girlfriend in 2003. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Public Safety)
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People walk among rubble at the site of a fuel truck explosion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. A fuel truck exploded after hitting portions of a bridge Thursday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, engulfing buildings and cars in flames and killing dozens of people and injuring scores, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo)
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This Oct. 30, 2012, photo provided by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) shows a flooded escalator in the South Ferry station of the No. 1 subway line, in lower Manhattan, after Superstorm Sandy passed through New York. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Authority)
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Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (left) and Robert Menendez, Democrats of New Jersey, toured areas ravaged by the storm spawned by Hurricane Sandy with President Obama on Wednesday. They asked the president to increase the federal share of disaster relief, citing New Jersey’s continuing costs from Hurricane Irene last year. (Associated Press)