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Professional test driver Dave McMillan demonstrates the dashboard warning signal in a Buick Lacrosse at an automobile test area. The display at a recent transportation conference was a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that talk to each other and warn drivers of impending collisions. (Associated Press)

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Smoke billows from the Little Bear fire in southeastern New Mexico, near Ruidoso, on Saturday, June 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)

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Wrestling shoes and flowers left by friends and neighbors hang June 7, 2012, from the fence of the home of Ron and Rebecca Bramlage and their four children in Junction City, Kan. The family died in a Florida plane crash, and three Bramlage boys were wrestlers. (Associated Press)

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Debris is strewn June 6, 2012, across the shore of Montague Island near Seward, Alaska. More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, neither the U.S. government nor some West Coast states have a clear plan for how to clean up the rubble that floats to American shores. (Associated Press/Chris Pallister)

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Redskins safety Madieu Williams, who played last season with San Francisco, runs a drill with a member of the coaching staff. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Redskins safeties Brandon Meriweather (right) and Tanard Jackson stretch during drills Thursday. Both were brought in during the offseason. (Associated Press)

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Enterprise Homes and the family of Abe Pollin are building 83 town homes at MetroTowns at Parkside in Northeast Washington. The homes have 1,288 to 1,444 finished square feet, with base prices from $259,900 to $284,900.

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** FILE ** New York City police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly speaks on Jan. 27, 2012, during a news conference in New York. (Associated Press)

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A Syrian boy sits Tuesday amid the rubble of a house in Taftanaz, Syria, that was destroyed during a military operation by the Syrian army in April. Damascus has agreed to allow humanitarian-aid workers from the U.N. and nongovernmental organizations into four Syrian provinces to deliver food, medicine and other supplies. (Associated Press)