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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)
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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/Saurabh Das)
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Indian rescue workers carry the body of a man pulled out from the remains of a four-story apartment building that 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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An Indian woman reacts to the death of a relative who was killed in a four-story apartment building that collapsed in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov.16, 2010. Dozens of residents were killed and scores injured when the building collapsed late Monday night, police reports said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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An Indian woman reacts when the body of her child died in the collapse of a four-story apartment building is handed over to the family, 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/Saurabh Das)
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A body is carried away from the scene of a collapsed building in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Rescuers raced Tuesday to pull survivors from the debris of the four-story apartment building that collapsed into a mountain of concrete slabs in a poor neighborhood of New Delhi, killing over four dozen people and injuring score of others. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi)
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A boy carries another and walks down a stairs as residents of an adjacent building are evacuated by police 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)
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The body of a child who died in the collapse of a four-story apartment building is taken away for burial from a mortuary 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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Relatives look at photographs of people who died in the collapse of a four-story apartment building displayed outside a mortuary 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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An Indian woman, center, reacts as the body of her husband who died in the collapse of a four-story apartment building is taken away for burial from a mortuary 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)
