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Flames raise from a gas pipeline after an explosion near the town Rastan in the restive Homs province of Syria on Jan. 3, 2012. The Syrian government blamed the explosion on terrorists, according to the Syrian official news agency SANA. (Associated Press/SANA)
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Rachelle Friedman Chapman, a North Carolina woman left paralyzed by a poolside accident, has grown stronger while training at a spinal cord injury recovery center in Carlsbad, Calif. (Associated Press)
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Firefighters extinguish numerous cars on fire in a carport in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 2, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters assist a man out of his apartment along with a cage of birds as multiple cars burn in a carport in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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Virginia safety Corey Mosley (7) leaves the field after losing to Auburn in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in Atlanta. Auburn won 43-24. (AP Photo/John Amis)
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Burning cars are shown at the site of an arson fire in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Friday Dec.30, 2011. An arsonist torched car after car early Friday, sending firefighters scrambling to put out more than a dozen blazes in Hollywood and neighboring West Hollywood. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
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A Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter is shown Dec. 30, 2011, at a fire in West Hollywood, Calif. An arsonist torched car after car earlier in the day, sending firefighters scrambling to put out more than a dozen blazes in Hollywood and neighboring West Hollywood. (Associated Press)
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A poster warning of the effects of the drug known as 'Spice' hangs on a wall Dec. 6, 2011, at the Naval Hospital in San Diego. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service on Thursday, Dec. 29, North Korea's next leader Kim Jong Un, center, with officials, pays respects to late leader Kim Jong Il, during the funeral at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Route 107 in Vermont between Bethel and Stockbridge reopened Thursday, making it the final highway to do so after being closed by Hurricane Irene-induced flooding. (Associated Press)
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A piece of china used by third-class passengers of the Titanic is part of a collection that will be up for auction. (Associated Press)
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A sign advises drivers on Route 107 in Bethel, Vt., on Dec. 29, 2011, in preparation for its reopening that day. The state highway is the last to reopen after being washed out by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene. (Associated Press)
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Craftmark Homes is building 14 single-family homes at Stone Fox Estates in Leesburg. The Kenwood II model, with 5,571 square feet, is priced from $889,900 to $904,900.
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Dec. 29, 2011 by the Korea News Service, mourners surround the hearse carrying the coffin of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his funeral procession through the streets of Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Dec. 29, 2011 by the Korea News Service, the hearse carrying late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is driven past during his funeral procession in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Pyongyang residents sweep snow from the streets before the funeral procession for late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Hurricane Katrina victim David Bellinger, 63, is blind and needed a friend to read him the letter from FEMA that says the agency wants him to pay back more than $3,200 in federal aid he improperly received after the disaster. "If I have to pay this money back, it would pretty much wipe out all the savings I have," he said. )(Associated Press)
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A derailed train car is removed from a bridge as workers clear up the wreckage after a train accident in Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang province in July. A long-awaited government report said on Wednesday design flaws and sloppy management caused the bullet-train crash. (Associated Press)
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Emergency rescue personnel inspect an overturned Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-134 passenger jet after it crash-landed in dense fog in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011. Authorities said 31 people were injured. (AP Photo/AKI Press, Pool)
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In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Koreans gather in front of a huge portrait of their late leader Kim Jong-il to mourn his death in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
