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** FILE ** A payload canister named "Raffello," seen here in early June at the Space Station Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is on board the space shuttle Atlantis with a cargo of supplies. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Afghans stand at the scene where a guard opened fire at a NATO-escorted reconstruction convoy in Dara, Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 9, 2011. The shooter killed a NATO service member and a civilian working for the coalition before being killed by return fire, the provincial police chief said. (AP Photo)
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A crowd gathers at the wreckage of the Kalka Mail passenger train, which derailed near the town of Fatehpur in India's Uttar Pradesh state, on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo)
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In this combo of two photos, people walk along Prefectural Highway 30 sandwiched by floodwaters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 24, 2011, after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area, top, and the same area, bottom, with an earth mover goes on reconstruction work as photographed on June 4, 2011. A strong earthquake hit hit Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday, but there were not any immediate reports of damage.
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Donnie Green of Sanford, Fla., sells T-shirts on Friday, July 8, 2011, to drivers and passengers stuck in traffic on Route 1 in Titusville, Fla., following the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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The wreckage of a small plane sticks out of the side of an unoccupied office building at Watsonville Community Hospital on July 7, 2011, in Watsonville, Calif. The plane had just taken off from the Watsonville Municipal Airport. Two people were killed in the crash. (Associated Press/The Sentinel)
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In the new comedy "Horrible Bosses," Jennifer Aniston plays a sexually deviant dentist who harasses her assistant (Charlie Day). The film centers around three employees who hatch a plot to kill each other's bosses. (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)
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Metro General Manager Richard Sarles declined to say Thursday whether he prefers the design for an underground rail station at Washington Dulles International Airport or a cheaper above-ground alternative. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Villagers and policemen look at the wreckage of a bus after it was hit by a train at a railroad crossing near Kanshiramnagar, a village 220 miles southwest of Lucknow, India, on Thursday, July 7, 2011. At least 35 people returning from a wedding party died in the crash, an official said. (AP Photo)
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Photographs courtesy of Eric Kieley Photography Toll Bros. is building homes on 1-acre sites at the Reserve at Triadelphia Crossing in Glenelg. Buyers can choose from four home styles priced from $1,018,995 to $1,065,995.
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The Piedmont model at Hopewell's Landing has a center-island kitchen that opens to the adjacent breakfast area and the family room.
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D.R. Horton is building 263 single-family homes at Hopewell's Landing in Gainesville. The Piedmont model, with 2,712 square feet, is priced from $384,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The 100-mile-wide storm moved like a giant wave, the dust roiling as it approached at up to 60 mph. Visibility dropped to zero, the sky turned nearly black, trees blew sideways, and Phoenix skyscrapers became invisible.
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Somalis carrying their belongings wait outside a camp for displaced people in the capital city of Mogadishu after leaving their homes in southern Somalia to seek help. Thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks and the number is increasing daily. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition. Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda all have drought-stricken areas and the situation is deteriorating, (Associated Press)
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A malnourished Abdi Ibrahim is comforted by his wife, Duba Dagane, as he lies on his bed in Lagbogal, Kenya. Parts of Kenya and Somalia are experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations has said. More than 10 million people are affected in five African nations.
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People mourn the death of their family member who was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 6, 2011. Renewed violence in Karachi killed at least 10 people and left many injured, police said. (Associated Press)
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Charles Tiger is pictured during an interview in his FEMA trailer home in Little Axe, Okla., Thursday, June 16, 2011. Nearly six years after the hurricane, the mobile homes that became a symbol of the government's failed response are finally being put to good use. FEMA has quietly given many of them away to American Indian tribes that are in desperate need of affordable housing. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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A Russian-built Ilyushin-76 cargo plane of Silk Way Airlines, similar to the aircraft shown here, crashed into a mountaintop in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, officials said. The nine crew members on board are feared dead. (AP Photo/www.silkway-airlines.com)
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Cleanup crews clear oil from alongside the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. The scenic waterway has risen above flood stage, raising fears that the surging currents will further spread crude from the previous week's oil spill. (Associated Press)
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A Mexican police helicopter searches the waters of the Gulf of California for survivors of a capsized fishing boat near San Felipe, Mexico, on Monday, July 4, 2011. A U.S. tourist died after the fishing boat capsized Sunday in an unexpected storm, and seven Americans still are missing. (AP Photo/Francisco Vega)
