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An Emergency Service Unit officer carries a chain saw into the basement of a building on the corner of Wooster Street and Prince Street in New York on Saturday during an investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. (Associated Press)
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On Sunday, April 22, 2012, relatives and other mourners in Karachi, Pakistan, carry the coffins of a couple who were killed in the crash of a Bhoja Air Boeing 737 on the outskirts of Islamabad on Friday. All 127 people on board died. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** New homes are seen March 23, 2012, under construction in a development in Atlanta. (Associated Press)
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D.R. Horton is building 29 single-family homes on 7,000-square-foot sites at Sherwood Forest in Haymarket. The Yorktown model, with 2,212 square feet, is priced from $359,990.
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A month after Haiti's January 2010 earthquake, Angelina Jolie visits at MSF Hospital in Port-au-Prince with a 10-year-old boy who lost a leg in the quake. The actress is a United Nations special envoy for refugees. (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees via Associated Press)
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"Timmy" the monkey joined the Think Geek crew as they watched the space shuttle Discovery fly past the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Timmy has been to at least five shuttle launches. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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The NASA Space Shuttle Discovery is seen being carried piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, above the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 17, 2012, as it makes it's way to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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The NASA Space Shuttle Discovery is seen being carried piggyback on a modified Boeing 747, above the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 17, 2012, as it makes it's way to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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The space shuttle Discovery, carried on the back of a jumbo jet, flies over the Washington Monument in D.C., on April 17, 2012, en route to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Va. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Space shuttle Discovery, atop a Boeing 747 carrier jet, departs from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its way to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum facility near Washington Dulles International Airport. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Sue Lord is dwarfed by the debris from her home, which is piled up on her neighbor's home, following a tornado in Woodward, Okla., on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Ms. Lord was in the home when the tornado struck but was not injured. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Firefighters use water canons against a blaze in the storage facilities of an oil company in Suez, Egypt, on Sunday, April 15, 2012. One person died and dozens were injured in the fire, which raged for nearly 20 hours, the local police chief said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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This framegrab image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows one of three crew members from the yacht Low Speed Chase being rescued from the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco on Saturday April 14, 2012, by the U.S. Coast Guard. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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Passengers aboard the MS Balmoral participate in a memorial service early on Sunday, April 15, 2012, to mark the centenary of the Titanic disaster. The passengers and crew said prayers at the spot in the North Atlantic Ocean where the Titanic sank, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A tornado moves on the ground north of Solomon, Kan., on Saturday evening, April 14, 2012. Interstate 70 is in the foreground. (AP Photo/The Hutchinson News, Sandra J. Milburn)
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Americans Mike and Sherri Adgie from Atlanta, passengers of the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship, pose for pictures following a reception in the Atlantic Ocean, Friday, April 13, 2012. Nearly 100 years after the Titanic went down, the cruise with the same number of passengers aboard is setting sail to retrace the ship's voyage. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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This graphic provided Friday, April 13, 2012, by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center shows a high risk of severe weather in portions of Kansas and Oklahoma on Saturday, April 14. According to forecasters, there is a 60 percent chance of tornadoes, high wind and hail within 25 miles of a point in an area from Salina, Kan., to Oklahoma City. Also, in the area marked with dashed lines, there is a 10 percent or greater chance that storms within 25 miles of a point could be significant. That region stretches from near Omaha, Neb., to west of Dallas. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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Washington Nationals relief pitcher Tyler Clippard (36) shows his emotion as he walks back to the dugout after the eighth inning. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
