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In this Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010 photo, rescuers get ready to enter the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province. Rescuers were racing Monday to reach 28 people trapped while doing safety work in coal mine in southern China, the latest accident in the world's deadliest mines. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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Rescuers put a trapped miner on a stretcher after rescue out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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Rescuers and police officers carries a trapped miner on a stretcher out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Liu Mingquan, center, the first miner rescued among the 29 miners trapped underground, gets help from rescue workers at the Batian coal mine in Xiaohe Town of Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained a flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing)
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Rescuers carries a trapped miner wrapped in white quilts out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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A medical worker adjusts an eye cover on a trapped miner before moving him out from the flooded Batian Coal Mine in Xiaohe town of Weiyuan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Emergency crews drained the flooded Chinese coal mine and rescued all 29 trapped workers Monday, ending a daylong rescue drama. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, miner Liu Hengqiang, center, is rescued at the Batian coal mine in Xiaohe Town of Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Barefoot and wrapped in white quilts, 29 miners were pulled out of a Chinese coal mine Monday after being trapped by a flood and waiting a day for rescuers to pump out water. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a nurse takes care of a rescued miner at a hospital in Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. All 29 miners were pulled out of a Chinese coal mine Monday after being trapped by a flood and waiting a day for rescuers to pump out water. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jiang Hongjing)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes (10) runs away from Houston Texans safety Troy Nolan (33) during the third quarter of an NFL football game at New Meadowlands Stadium Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010, in East Rutherford, N.J.
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** FILE ** Construction workers continue building one of the memorial waterfalls at ground zero in New York on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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An aerial view shows the Pike River Coal mine near Atarau, the site of an underground explosion, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, while at least 27 people were underground. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface, while more than two dozen are missing. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Stewart Nimmo)
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In this undated aerial photo provided by Pike River Coal is the Pike River Coal Processing Plant near the town of Atarau on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. An explosion ripped through the coal mine on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, and around 30 workers were unaccounted for, police and the mining company said. (AP Photo/Pike River Coal via New Zealand Herald)
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Photograph by J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times The 700 block 21st St. NE was the scene of a homicide in the Langston Terrace neighborhood of the District in February. Langston Terrace residents heard the victim's screams. Some even saw the attack that left a 47-year-old handyman dead.
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, BP operates a deep sand cleaning operation in Orange Beach, Ala. The oil company has launched its biggest push yet to deep-clean the tourist beaches that were coated with crude during the worst of the Gulf oil spill. Machines are digging down into the sand to remove buried tar mats left from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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The 700 block 21st St. NE was the scene of a homicide in the Langston Terrace neighborhood of the District in February. Langston Terrace residents heard the victim's screams. Some even saw the attack that left a 47-year-old handyman dead. (Photograph by J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Timberlake Homes is building 28 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Poplar Hill Estates in Clinton. The homes have 2,434 to 3,464 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,900 to $489,900.
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Della Ratta Inc. is building 144 condominium homes at the Isabella at Monticello Mews near Alexandria. The homes have 781 to 1,673 finished square feet, with base prices from $244,900 to $550,000.
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** FILE ** This Nov. 13, 2010, photo provided by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, shows an engine that failed on a Qantas A380 superjumbo as it is being removed from the plane at Singapore Airport in Singapore. (AP Photo/Australian Transport Safety Bureau)
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A relative reacts as rescue workers, unseen, search for bodies and survivors amid debris after a four-story apartment building collapsed in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Dozens of residents were killed and scores injured when the 15-year-old building housing about 200 people collapsed late Monday night, police reports said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Indian rescue workers break concrete to search for bodies amid debris after a four-story apartment building collapsed in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov.16, 2010. Dozens of residents were killed and scores injured when the 15-year-old building housing about 200 people collapsed late Monday night, police reports said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
