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Crew members from the Marine KC-130 plane sit on top of the wing as they watch the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, during the Open House and Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base, Sunday, May 22, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Smoke rises from Iceland's Grimsvotn, the island nation's most active volcano, on Saturday, May 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Halldora Kristin Unnarsdottir)

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Technicians monitor the status of a fracking drill as it descends thousands of feet below the earth's surface. Opponents say fracking contaminates the water supply with chemicals used in the process. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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"Hydraulic fracturing," or "fracking," requires backbreaking work, long hours and weeks at a time away from home. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Smoke and ash rise from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles east of the capital, Rejkjavik, on Saturday, May 21, 2011. (AP Photo, Jon Gustafsson)

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In this undated publicity image released by WWE, professional wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage is shown. Savage, whose legal name is Randy Mario Poffo, died in a car crash in Florida on Friday, May 20, 2011, according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report. (AP Photo/WWE)

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** FILE ** In this April 4, 1989, file photo, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, top, has challenger Hulk Hogan in a headlock during the main event for Wrestlemania V in Atlantic City, N.J. Savage, whose legal name is Randy Mario Poffo, died in a car crash in Florida on Friday, May 20, 2011, according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report. (AP Photo/B. Vartan Boyajian, File)

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Smoke rises from a ship that was hit in an airstrike at a sea port in Tripoli, Libya, on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A farmhouse is protected by a small evee while another stands flooded near Yazoo City, Miss. For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall.

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Cars are stranded on a dry strip of roadway north of Vicksburg, Miss., on Thursday. Thousands have been displaced by the floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Mississippi and Louisiana.

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Greg Poe, an aerial acrobatic pilot, prepares himself before taking flight aboard his ethanol powered aircraft, Wednesday, May 18, 2011, in Manassas, Va. Poe will be preforming at the Joint Service Open House and Air Show at Andrews Air force Base, which will also feature the Thunderbirds, the Golden Knights, and other aerial and ground attractions. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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ANDREW S. GERACI / THE WASHINGTON TIMES Pilot Greg Poe, an aerial acrobatic pilot, takes off from Harry P. Davis Field in Manassas, Va., in his ethanol-powered aircraft.

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Office workers stroll through a street filled with restaurants at lunchtime in Tokyo on May 19, 2011. Japan's economy contracted sharply in the first quarter, veering back into recession as factory production and consumer spending wilted in the aftermath of March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)

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A Boeing 707 tanker burns after crashing during takeoff from Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu in Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. The three crewmen on board escaped with minor injuries, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ventura County Star, Stephen Osman)

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K.Hovnanian Homes is building single-family homes at Four Seasons at New Kent Vineyards in New Kent County, Va. The Berry Hill model has 2,320 square feet and is priced from $274,990.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Flood victim Vivian Taylor-Wells can only sit and wait Wednesday at a Red Cross shelter in Vicksburg, Miss. She had just spent her second night in the shelter after funds for a motel ran out. She was forced from her home a week ago by the rising Mississippi River.

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Farmers work as floodwaters from the Mississippi River creep across their fields Tuesday in Natchez, Miss. The Coast Guard said it closed the river at the port in Natchez because barge traffic could increase pressure on levees already burdened by heavy river flow. (Associated Press)

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Russell King of La Plata was a man on a mission while looking for his ball in a hazard area on the 17th hole. His chore was necessitated by an errant tee shot during the U.S. Open local qualifier at Worthington Manor Golf Club.

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** FILE ** Shukri Ghanem, Libyan oil minister and head of the state-run National Oil Corp., addresses a news conference in Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

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President Obama is greeted by Booker T. Washington High School students Cassandra Henderson (left) and Christopher Dean after stepping off Air Force One in Memphis, Tenn., for private meetings with families affected by flooding and to deliver the commencement address at Booker T. Washington High School. (Associated Press)