Disaster_Accident

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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)

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This so-called "print plane" was developed by the Navy Research Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate that they could build a plane in 90 seconds. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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"Lucas" is an example of an MDS robot (mobile, dextrous, and social) being built by the Human Systems Interface Laboratory at the Navy Research Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) in Washington, D.C. This robot can actually respond to human inconsistencies, such as determining that the second person on the scene of a fire does not have the up-to-date information on the status of the fire. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Ryan Homes is building 210 town-home-style condominiums at Linton at Ballenger Crossing in Frederick. The homes have approximately 1,650 to 2,500 finished square feet, with base prices from $239,990 to $264,990.

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Massive earthquakes triggered tsunami warnings for Indonesia on April 11, 2012. (The Washington Times)

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Motorists get stuck in traffic as they evacuate to higher ground after a quake was felt in Banda Aceh in the Aceh province on Sumatra island. (Associated Press)

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Bobby Petrino's downfall at Arkansas started with a motorcycle crash and ended with revelations that he paid his mistress $20,000 before hiring her to the football staff. (Associated Press)

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Tiger Woods tied for 40th at the Masters, his his worst 72-hole position in any major as a pro. (Associated Press)

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Waste Management Inc. collects garbage weekly for the city of Seattle. City officials are pondering a switch to every-other-week garbage collection and may test the concept at about 800 single-family homes in four areas this summer. (Associated Press)

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An unidentified miner (left) is helped by an emergency worker after being rescued from the Cabeza de Negro gold-and-copper mine in Yauca del Rosario, Peru, on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Nine miners had been trapped inside the wildcat mine since Thursday. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Japan Self-Defense Force members work April 11, 2011, on a unit of Japan Air Self-Defense Force's PAC-3 surface to air missile deployed in Ishigaki, Japan's southern most prefecture of Okinawa. Japan is on alert for North Korea's rocket which is expected to launch between April 12-16. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)