Disaster_Accident

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Carolina Hurricanes' Erik Cole (26) and Tampa Bay Lightning's Martin St. Louis struggle for possession of the puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, April 9, 2011. Tampa Bay won 6-2. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Residents of Mapleton, Iowa, on Monday clean up debris left by a weekend tornado that roared through the town of 1,200 with 130 mph winds. At least 14 people suffered minor injuries, but no one was killed. (Associated Press)

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Evacuees observe a moment of silence Monday at 2:46 p.m., exactly one month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. (Bloomberg)

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Mark Miles, Chairman of the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee, responds to a question during a news conference in Indianapolis, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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Uncontrolled wildfires burn near Fort Davis, Texas, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. A fast-moving wildfire spread to more than 60,000 acres in Presidio and Jeff Davis counties, where it destroyed about 20 homes in Fort Davis. (AP Photo/Billy Marginot)

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Buddhist monks pray at a tsunami-destroyed area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, April 11, 2011, one month to the day after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the city. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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From left, Jordan Crowe, Raegan Fulmer and Natalie White pray on Friday near a stretch of Highway 129 in Duncan, S.C., where Aaron Shawn Hill, 18, died in a car crash. The teenager was killed in a wreck on a stretch of highway named in memory of his father, a soldier slain in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski places a candle at the memorial dedicated to his twin brother, Lech, and the other passengers who died in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Banners and placards are held aloft during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland is still deeply divided over the investigation into the crash. A year later, 42 percent of Poles now see Polish-Russian relations as "bad." (Associated Press)

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A Polish officer salutes at the site of the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and more than 90 others a year ago. A ceremony marked the anniversary. (Associated Press)

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A Japanese Buddhist monk prays at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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Injured people are carried out of a shopping mall after a shooting in Alpen aan den Rijn, 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, April 9, 2011. A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least four people dead and wounding 16 others, Dutch officials said. (AP Photo/www.regio15.nl)

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Colorado Avalanche captain Adam Foote announces his retirement from hockey at a news conference in Denver on Friday, April 8, 2011. Foote, 39, is wrapping up his 19th season in the NHL. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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Japanese people line up to buy food at a supermarket with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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The Christina, a boutique condominium with 14 renovated homes in the District's Brightwood neighborhood, offers two-bedroom homes ranging in price from $198,900 to $269,900.

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The Remington Place model has a center-island kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite counters, a walk-in pantry and a breakfast area.

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NVHomes is building single-family homes on 1-acre sites at the Warfields in Glenelg, Md. The homes have 2,708 to 4,576 finished square feet, with base prices from $679,990 to $809,990.

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A Libyan rebel runs for safety as shells explode in the distance on the frontline near Brega on Wednesday. Turkey is trying to broker a cease-fire in the fighting with Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces. The rebels blame the Turks for a lull in the NATO airstrikes that aided their cause. (Associated Press)

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A vessel still sits in a street of Kesennuma, Japan. The March 11 earthquake, tsunami and fires destroyed most of the fishing fleet, ports, and fishing industry along the northeastern coast of Japan. Now radiation has become an issue with seafood from the region. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)