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Libyans inspect the wreckage of a U.S. F-15E fighter jet after it crashed Tuesday in a field east of Benghazi. Both crew members ejected and were rescued. The U.S. Africa Command blamed mechanical failure for the loss of the aircraft. (Associated Press)
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Fire crews established a containment line along Highway 6 in Clear Creek Canyon, Colo. Strong wind and warm, dry weather hampered efforts by firefighters to stop a wildfire burning across more than 700 acres in the foothills west of Golden. (Associated Press)
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Flames engulf part of the Interior Ministry complex in Cairo on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. An Egyptian security official said police protesting in front of ministry set fire to a part of the downtown complex that houses the agency's personnel department. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)
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A police officer stands near the burning Elysee Montmartre concert hall in Paris, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. About one hundred of firefighters pull off the fire at the historical concert hall that opened in 1807 in the Montmartre district of the French capital. No injuries was reported. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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A woman is screened Monday at an evacuee center for radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities in northeastern Japan. Despite living in close proximity to six nuclear reactors, evacuees at this shelter never practiced an emergency drill to prepare them for a disaster. (Associated Press)
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An elderly Japanese woman searches for her belongings Monday in the quake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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A D.C. road crew repairs potholes in the 1300 block of Jasper Place Southeast on Monday. (Meredith Somers/The Washington Times)
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In this CD cover image released by Jive, the latest release by Britney Spears, "Femme Fatale," is shown. (AP Photo/Jive)
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Chiyoko Kaizuka, 83-year old farmer, weeds a spinach field Sunday, March 20, 2011 in Moriya, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex has seeped into the food chain, saying that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. Officials said that TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 12, 2011 file photo, a runway at Sendai airport is covered with washed out cars and sand and earth after the March 11 strong earthquake slammed into Japan's eastern coast. Geologists say a powerful earthquake could strike near Tokyo because the recent monster that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, loading stress onto a segment of the fault line near the capital. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
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A worker stocks tomatoes from Tochigi prefecture at a market Sunday in Tokyo. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex have seeped into the food chain. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this video image taken March 11, 2011 from Japan's NHK TV, a wave from the tsunami heads to the coast in Miyagi Prefecture on the north east coast of Japan following a massive earth quake. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Victims' family members participate in a Buddhist service on Saturday, March 19, 2011, at the site of a March 12 tour bus crash that left 15 people dead in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, a fire engine from the Japan Self-Defense Forces sprays water toward Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Ministry)
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In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, a fire engine from the Japan Self-Defense Forces sprays water toward Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Friday, March 18, 2011. In the backgrounds is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Ministry)
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FILE - In this March 11, 2011 file photo, Apple employees cheer as the iPad 2 goes on sale at The Grove Apple store in Los Angeles. Analysts from IHS iSuppli said Friday, March 18, 2011, last week's earthquake in Japan could cause shortages of the iPad 2. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media about the nuclear emergency triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan before his takeoff to Japan at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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This image provided by NASA, shows a image NASA’s Messenger probe made when it flew by Mercury in September 2009. It's a close-up of its pockmarked southern hemisphere, an area that had never been seen before. Messenger will enter into Mercury’s orbit on March 17, 2011. Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin. (AP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
