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Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Healthcare Safety, answers a reporter's question on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, during a news conference in Boston regarding a meningitis outbreak linked to medicine from a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy. At rear left is Dr. Al DeMaria, the state epidemiologist. (Associated Press)
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Dr. Lucy Wilson, with fellow Maryland public health official Josh Sharfstein, holds a news conference to explain response efforts to an outbreak of meningitis that may be linked to steroid injections. (Associated Press)
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Kathy Stewart, of Enfield, Ill., looks at a wrecked house as her tour bus passes through the 9th Ward part of New Orleans. Residents and city officials are pushing back against tour companies that take out-of-towners into the Lower 9th Ward, the neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina flooding. (Associated Press)
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The Jasmine model at Longacre Village in Camden, Del., is one of six single-family models offered by K. Hovnanian Homes. It has from 1,866 to 2,500 square feet and is priced from $239,900.
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Bozzuto Homes is building seven single-family homes at Uptown at Murray Hill in Annapolis. The two home styles currently available have 2,324 to 2,544 finished square feet, with base prices from $679,990 to $749,990.
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Cattle graze on a ranch outside of Encino, N.M. With drought drying out grazing land and driving up hay prices, authorities in drought-stricken states say some ranchers have started stealing hay or leaving gates open so their cattle can graze on greener pastures. (Associated Press)
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A traffic warden and another man push a stalled commercial bus to the side of a busy highway in Lagos. Drivers are hostage to a road network in the capital city that hasn’t been upgraded since the 1970s. (Associated Press)
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Firemen and police officers investigate on a salvaged boat that sank after colliding with a ferry near Lamma Island, off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Associated Press Police officers guard the partially submerged Lamma IV after it collided with a ferry off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong on Tuesday, killing 38 passengers on a holiday outing and injuring dozens of others.
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Workers on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, check on a salvaged boat that sank the previous night after colliding with a ferry near Hong Kong's Lamma Island. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back D.J. Ware (28) is hit by Washington Redskins strong safety Reed Doughty (37) during an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)
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Washington Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen (82) gets taken down by Tampa Bay Buccaneers strong safety Mark Barron (24) and free safety Ronde Barber (20) during the fourth quarter. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
