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** FILE ** In this Sept. 9, 2010, file photo, a massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. An Associated Press investigation has found that damage from a California pipeline explosion could have been reduced if the line had been equipped with a type of shut-off valve federal safety investigators have recommended for decades. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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Flames are seen after an explosion went off at a gas terminal in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, in El-Arish, setting off a massive fire. No injuries were reported, and the blaze was quickly brought under control after the gas flow was shut off. (AP Photo/Ashraf Swailem)
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Locals walk through a garden square in Mission Beach, Australia, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. The cyclone destroyed dozens of homes, ripped roofs and walls from dozens more as well as cutting power supplies in two regional cities and laid waste to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of banana and sugar cane crops. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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An optimistic message is displayed on a destroyed home in Tully, Australia. Cyclone Yasi, the most powerful storm to hit the area in nearly a century, caused widespread damage but no deaths because residents heeded orders to evacuate. (Associated Press)
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Fire devours an entire block of the Dynasty Wanxin Hotel in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. State media reports say the fire was set off by fireworks to celebrate the Chinese new year and firefighters had trouble dealing with the fire because their fire engines shot water up only 165 feet, while the building was 720 feet tall. (AP Photo)
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A fireman puts out the last flames of a fire that devoured an entire block of the Dynasty Wanxin Hotel in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. State media reports say the fire was set off by fireworks to celebrate the Chinese new year and firefighters had trouble dealing with the fire because their fire engines shot water up only 165 feet, while the building was 720 feet tall. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos shakes hands with women in a camp of displaced people in Galkayo town in Somalia. The U.N. and aid agencies are warning of a possible catstrophe in Somalia, where a severe drought has plunged millions of Somalis into crisis. The drought has increased the number of malnourished children, displaced thousands of people and killed thousands of animals. (AP Photo/Malkhadir Muhumed)
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NV Homes is building 11 single-family homes on 6,000-square-foot sites at Holly Manor in Annandale. The Bentley Place model homes have approximately 3,580 finished square feet, with base prices from $699,990 to $799,990.
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Craftmark Homes is building more than 70 single-family homes on 17,945-square-foot sites at Oak Creek in Upper Marlboro. The homes have 2,748 to 5,136 finished square feet, with base prices from $464,900 to $634,900.
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The third floor of a building in Middletown, Conn., collapsed under heavy snowfall, littering the street with bricks and snapping two trees, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Two workers fled when they heard a cracking sound, the acting fire marshal said. (AP Photo/Middletown, Conn., Police Department)
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Smoke rises from cars on fire during clashes between pro-government and anti-government demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square early Thursday. (Associated Press)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, seen here Nov. 1 in New Orleans announcing an agreement by BP to provide funding for seafood-safety testing, coastal-restoration efforts and tourism marketing after April's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, said Wednesday the claims process "remains unfair to claimants." (Associated Press)
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Officials check out the Worcester Winnelson Co., building that collapsed in Auburn, Mass., on Wednesday after heavy snow followed by rain. (Associated Press)
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A plow truck remains stuck, left, as a bicyclist makes his way on a snowy street Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Milwaukee. The area was under a blizzard warning and some freeways were shut down. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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This Feb. 1, 2011, photo shows a car that landed vertically into a snowbank after a multiple vehicle accident on Interstate 93 during a snow storm north of Salem, N.H. No one was injured. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Tim Jean)
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Hospital patients are transported to safety as Cyclone Yasi threatens massive damage in Cairns, Australia. Extra commercial flights were scheduled so residents could evacuate. (Associated Press)
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Ilona Chisholm, 13 months, helps her mom shovel snow out of their driveway using a rake in Cohassett, Mass., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. The first half of a two-part winter storm is expected to drop up to a foot of snow in parts of New England on Tuesday before a second storm slams into the area Wednesday. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Ila Dooley works to dig her car out to try to get to work on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Owasso, Okla. Roads were reported slick and hazardous Tuesday morning, and both of Oklahoma's major airports were closed as a winter storm that is expected to dump up to 18 inches of snow in parts of Oklahoma moved into the state. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Mike Simons, )
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A stranded motorist reaches for her shovel to try to dig out her car in Edmond, Okla., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A monster storm began to bear down on the middle of the United States on Tuesday, threatening to leave up to a third of the nation covered in brutal winter weather. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, David McDaniel)
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Rebecca Valk walks to her office in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in near-whiteout conditions on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A monster storm began to bear down on the middle of the nation, threatening to leave up to a third of the nation covered in brutal winter weather. (AP Photo/Poughkeepsie Journal, Spencer Ainsley)
