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A Japanese soldier works in a sewer in an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Taro. Residents of the town held their annual evacuation drill on March 3 — eerily, just eight days earlier. March 3 is the anniversary of a 1933 tsunami. (Associated Press)

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The control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport includes flight progress strips. The Federal Aviation Administration is creating a revolutionary air traffic system, but various factors have delayed the program. (Associated Press)

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Flames rise near El-Arish, Egypt, 30 miles from the border with Israel, on Monday, July 4, 2011, after unidentified assailants blew up the Egyptian pipeline that carries gas to Israel and Jordan. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Kindergartners in Hyangsan, North Korea, eat food donated by the World Food Program in October 2006. (AP Photo/World Food Program)

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Heavy rain falls over Copenhagen on Saturday, July 2, 2011, as the deluge threatens to overwhelm parts of the city. The rain caused huge traffic problems and flooded hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Mogens Flindt)

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An Egyptian spice dealer displays fenugreek seeds at his shop in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Health experts warned Thursday there could be more E. coli cases across Europe and elsewhere after finding recent deadly outbreaks were probably linked to contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Lennar is building 258 town homes at Fieldstone in Laurel near Arundel Mills mall. The Kentwell model has 2,125 finished square feet, with base prices from $339,990 to $355,990.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters from Apple Valley, Calif., battle the Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, N.M., on Wednesday. The blaze had grown to more than 108 square miles by Wednesday morning, but it was being held back from the southern boundary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and its above-ground storage area.

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The Washington Nationals expect their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night to go on as usual after an earthquake shook the area. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters from Apple Valley, Calif., battle the Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, N.M., on Wednesday. The blaze had grown to more than 108 square miles by Wednesday morning, but it was being held back from the southern boundary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and its above-ground storage area.

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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe discusses light-duty assignments before a D.C. Council hearing at the Wilson Building in the District on Wednesday. He is mulling a change in policy that would offer 90 days rather than 30 days of limited-duty assignments to all sick, injured or pregnant firefighters and paramedics.

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A wildfire burns near Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Thousands of residents calmly fled from the town that's home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, ahead of an approaching wildfire that sent up towering plumes of smoke, rained down ash and sparked a spot fire on lab property where scientists 50 years ago conducted underground tests of radioactive explosives. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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** FILE ** The Obama administration recently decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country's emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

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The University of California San Diego's engineering institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is illuminated by flames behind it in Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday. Thousands of people were driven from their homes, but officials tried to dispel concerns about the safety of sensitive lab materials. (Associated Press)

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FEMA housing inspector Travis Rule, left, from Fort Myers, Fla., talks with Burlington, N.D., resident Vern Erck about his flood damaged home in Minot, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Debris from the Souris River surrounds a house in Minot, N.D. As the river hit its record-shattering peak and began a slow retreat, residents looked ahead to an arduous rebuilding job while continuing to deal with short-term obstacles such as sharing the homes of friends and relatives, traffic tie-ups and an advisory to boil drinking water. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)