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Southwest Airlines flight 812 passenger Mary Flores, left, is hugged by her granddaughter, Dylan Dean, 9, center and daughter Desiree, right, after arriving at Sacramento International Airport Friday, April 1, 2011. A fuselage rupture and a sudden drop in cabin pressure forced the flight from Phoenix to Sacramento to make an emergency landing at a Yuma military base Friday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Japanese music band AKB48 performs during the concert "Artistes 311 Love Beyond Borders" in Hong Kong on April 1, 2011. Hong Kong entertainment industry staged the charity concert to raise funds for victims of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. From left are, Ayaka Umeda, Ami Maeda and Sakiko Matsui. (Associated Press)
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Japan-based Hong Kong singer Agnes Chan performs during the charity concert "Artistes 311 Love Beyond Borders" in Hong Kong Friday, April 1, 2011. Hong Kong entertainment industry staged the concert to raise funds for victims of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Prince William, second right, stands with his search and rescue crew, from left to right winchman Sgt. Ed Griffith, Flight Lt. Alan Connor and winch operator Sgt. Paul Jones, alongside their Sea King helicopter at RAF Valley in Anglesey, north Wales, after a training exercise at nearby Holyhead Mountain Thursday, March 31, 2011. (AP Photo/PA, John Stillwell) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speak about nuclear power safety after their meeting in Tokyo on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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The owners expanded the home in 2009 with a large glass-enclosed addition. Instead of building a foundation for the addition, the owners suspended it on steel beams.
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Brookfield Homes is building 100 single-family homes at Little River Preserve in Chantilly. The homes are base-priced from $499,990 to $514,990.
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The Waverly has a first-floor study, a family room with a fireplace, a center-island kitchen and breakfast area, and formal dining and living rooms on the main level. Upstairs are four bedrooms, two baths and a laundry area.
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Foreign tourists arrive at Sattahip Naval Base in Chonburi province, Thailand, after being transported by a Royal Thai Navy ship Thursday, March 31, 2011. Thailand's navy has used helicopters and even an aircraft carrier to rescue more than 800 tourists stranded by heavy rains on the country's picturesque southern islands. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this March 28, 2011 file photo, new vehicles damaged by the March 11 tsunami waters sit lined in a Toyota parking lot at Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A shortage of auto parts and other components after Japan's earthquake has stirred unease about two pillars of manufacturing: the country's role as a crucial link in the global supply chain and "just in time" production. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)
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Residents search for anything worth keeping Wednesday in the earthquake- and tsunami-devastated town of Kesennuma in northern Japan. (Associated Press)
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A man looks at the devastation, which was partially caused by fire after an earthquake and tsunami that struck Kesennuma. (Associated Press)
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'THIS NIGHTMARE': Nearly three weeks of desperation and depravation after have given some of the earthquake and tsunami survivors the courage to visit Kesennuma, Japan. Just a month ago, the town was home to 70,000 people including fishermen, teachers, mechanics and clothing makers. (Associated Press)
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Carolina Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward (30) deflects a shot by Washington Capitals' Matt Bradley (10) while Hurricanes' Bryan Allen (5) defends during a game in Washington on Tuesday. The Hurricanes won 3-2 in a shootout. The Capitals are working to improve in power-play situations. (Associated Press)
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National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman and Peter Pantuso, president of the American Bus Association, testified Wednesday at a Senate transportation subcommittee hearing on improving the safety of passengers on the country's large buses, or motorcoaches. Crashes in the past decade have taken dozens of lives. (Associated Press)
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A passenger piles her bags into a cab after waiting in the taxi line at Union Station. Under a proposed medallion system, a government agency would issue cab owners the medallions, which are affixed to the cabs as proof that they are licensed and allow them to pick up passengers. (Associated Press)
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This image provided by NASA is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury. The image was captured early this morning, at 5:20 a.m. EDT,Tuesday March 29, 2011. The dominant rayed crater in the upper portion of the image is Debussy. The bottom portion of this image is near Mercury's south pole and includes a region of Mercury's surface not previously seen by spacecraft. On March 17, 2011 (March 18, 2011, UTC), MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. (AP Photo/NASA)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, heavy smoke rises over the Tajoura area, some 30 km east of Tripoli, Libya, after an airstrike on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Tuomo Ruutu (15), of Finland, scores a goal against Washington Capitals goalie Semyon Vallamov (1) during a shootout of an NHL hockey game in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Hurricanes won 3-2 in a shootout. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, left, of Russia, reacts after scoring during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Caroina Hurricanes at the Verizon Center in Washington, on Friday, March 11, 2011. Washington center Marcus Johansson (90) looks on. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
