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A family rests in its new apartment home after relocating from farmlands in northern China. While trying to protect farmland from development amid a housing boom, officials are going after the land under farmers' homes. (Associated Press)

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Jennifer A.J. Greene swears in before giving testimony during a hearing to make her the official director of the agency that handles 911 emergency calls and 311 service requests. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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In this combination of images provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, two of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012 are seen here. (Associated Press/U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

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A Thai man uses an improvised float to move his goods along a flooded street in Bangkok. Rancid brown water has seeped south across the city at a rate of about a mile per day. Government officials have issued warnings to waders. (Associated Press)

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A cookie jar lies in pieces on the kitchen counter as Jesse Richards describes what the magnitude-5.6 earthquake felt like in Sparks, Okla., on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Washington Capitals' Cody Eakin scored his first NHL goal and recorded his first assist Friday night against the Carolina Hurricanes, in his second career game. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Carolina Hurricanes' Eric Staal is a minus-12 with three goals and two assists in 12 games this season. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Through advanced automatic monitoring of battery status and by encapsulating the battery and protecting it effectively in a collision, the result is a world-class safety level.

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Through advanced automatic monitoring of battery status and by encapsulating the battery and protecting it effectively in a collision, the result is a world-class safety level.

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Residents wade through a flooded street beneath portraits of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit in the Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok. Water has been a virtual obsession for the king for the past four decades. Flooding this year is the worst it's been in 50 years. (Associated Press)

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Photographs courtesy of Alan Goldstein Photography Brookfield Homes is building 70 single-family homes at Brookside in Warrenton. The Canterbury model, with 4,100 square feet, is priced from $449,990 to $484,990.

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LOT Polish Airlines Capt. Tadeusz Wrona speaks to the press at Poland's Warsaw Chopin Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, the day after he made a smooth emergency landing on a Boeing 767. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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A Boeing 767 of LOT Polish Airlines makes an emergency landing at the Warsaw airport on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, after experiencing landing-gear trouble. The plane was en route from Newark, N.J., with 231 people on board. (AP Photo)

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A U.S. soldier checks the damage at offices of the U.N.'s refugee agency, the UNHCR, caused by a suicide bomber in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Oct. 31, 2011. The attack killed four people and severely damaged the U.N. agency's building, Afghan officials said. (Associated Press)

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Watching "Brideshead Revisited" 30 years after the 11-part PBS series became a sensation in fall 1981 is a reminder of all that was marvelous about the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel. It faced so many impediments that it could have been a disaster. (Photograph provided by Acorn Media)