Disaster_Accident

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In this picture released by the Mehr news agency, wreckage of a IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane that crashed Sunday after making an emergency landing is seen outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/Mehr News Agency, Esfandiar Asgharkhani)

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In this picture released by the official IRNA news agency, wreckage of the IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane, which crashed Sunday after it was making an emergency landing, is shown outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/IRNA, Ali Asghar Shadjou)

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In this picture released by the official IRNA news agency, wreckage of the IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane, which crashed Sunday after it was making an emergency landing, is seen outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/IRNA, Ali Asghar Shadjou)

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In this picture released by the Mehr news agency, rescue workers attend the scene Sunday after an IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed as it was making an emergency landing outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/Mehr News Agency, Esfandiar Asgharkhani)

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In this picture released by the Mehr news agency, wreckage of the IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane is seen, which crashed Sunday after it was making an emergency landing, outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/Mehr News Agency, Esfandiar Asgharkhani)

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In this picture released by the Mehr news agency, rescue workers attend the scene Sunday after an IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed as it was making an emergency landing, outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/Mehr News Agency, Esfandiar Asgharkhani)

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In this picture released by the Mehr news agency, rescue workers attend the scene Sunday after an IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed as it was making an emergency landing, outside the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles northwest of Tehran. An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing more than 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. (Associated Press/Mehr News Agency, Esfandiar Asgharkhani)

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Los Angeles Kings defenseman Jack Johnson, left, collides with Nashville Predators center Nick Spaling during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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A home condemned from a past landslide is seen just down the street from where a new landslide dropped the back yards of six other homes overlooking the Shorecliffs Golf Club in San Clemente, Calif., 25 to 50 feet into a ravine below, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt)

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Turkey hens breeder Helge Vosteen stands in his hen house in Neerstedt near Oldenburg northern Germany on Jan. 6, 2011, after it was precautionary closed. German authorities have stopped more than 4,700 farms from selling their meat and eggs as a precautionary measure against a growing scandal over animal feed contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals that is also affecting exports. (AP Photo/Dapd/David Hecker)

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Mid-Atlantic Builders is building 226 single-family homes on 1-acre sites at Woodmore North in Bowie. The homes have 3,032 to 3,859 finished square feet, with base prices from $498,990 to $566,990.

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The Hylton Group is building 114 single-family homes on half-acre sites at the Manors at Ridgefield Estates in Dale City. The homes have 2,709 to 3,254 finished square feet, with base prices from $519,900 to $566,900.

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The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in April after exploding in the Gulf. A federal panel has concluded that decisions made to save time and money increased danger. (Associated Press)

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Frances Street in Annapolis, Md., is blocked off as officials investigate a suspicious package in the Jeffry Building, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Two packages sent to state government buildings 20 miles apart released smoke and odors when they were opened Thursday, but no one was seriously injured, officials said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Pakistani women light candles and pray at the site of a shooting that killed Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Mr. Taseer was killed on Tuesday by his bodyguard commando, who reportedly was enraged by Mr. Taseer's opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Red taillights of slow and stopped traffic glow on northbound Interstate 5 near Castaic, Calif., after heavy snow closed the major north-south several miles north of this point Sunday, Jan. 2 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)

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Washington Redskins running back Ryan Torain (46) is stopped by New York Giants safety Antrel Rolle (left) and Giants safety Kenny Phillips (21) during the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, in Landover, Md. The Giants defeated the Redskins, 17-14, but were eliminated from the playoffs with a Green Bay Packers victory over the Chicago Bears. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Zsa Zsa Gabor responds to a question during a press conference at her home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles on April 13, 1992. A representative for the actress said Sunday Jan. 2, 2011, that she is back in a Los Angeles hospital to have part of her leg amputated. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian/file)

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani pauses during a meeting with the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority, in Islamabad on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Pakistan's U.S.-allied ruling party scrambled Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, to keep its fragile coalition government in power after a party quit the coalition. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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BMW's driver Stephane Peterhansel and co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret, both of France, compete Sunday in the car category during the first stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Victoria and Cordoba, Argentina. (Associated Press)