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Former U.N. driver Jean Berchimas Rwagitinywa, a Tutsi, shows journalists the courtyard of a home in Kigali, Rwanda, where nine people were killed in the 1994 massacre. He escaped by jumping over a fence. (Associated Press)
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This artist rendering shows NASA's next generation of moon rockets being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Preliminary work on two Ares spacecraft has already cost NASA $7 billion.
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NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, known as Eddie, was an ace pilot in World Wars I and II.
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Associated Press Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash on Dec. 31, 1972, while trying to deliver relief supplies to Nicaragua.
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associated press Snow-covered traffic lights caused a fatal accident during a snowstorm in Oswego, Ill., in April. The problem stemmed from replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient ones, which aren't hot enough to melt the snow.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Bo Burns (above and below) works at K&B Timberworks Inc., a recently reopened mill in Reserve, N.M., which was without one after 1990. The owner says the mill's future depends on federal contracts to thin forestland for wildfire prevention, funded in part by a federal timber law that has been extended beyond its original intent of helping communities hard hit by environmental restrictions on logging.
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** File ** Shoppers flood into Victoria's Secret as it opens on Black Friday, 2012. (Peter Lockley / The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals traded goalie Semyon Varlamov to the Colorado Avalanche for a first-round pick in 2012 and a second-round pick in either 2012 or 2013. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A U.S. Humvee of the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, drives near a crater caused by a roadside bomb attack on a U.S. vehicle in Tangi Valley in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2009.
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"Alberta Oil Sands #6," taken at Fort McMurray, Alberta, in 2007, is from the part of the show that features places where oil is extracted, refined, distributed and consumed.
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** FILE ** Investigators examine a sweat lodge at the Angel Valley Retreat Center near Sedona, Ariz., where two people died in October 2009 after being overcome during a spiritual retreat. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** Doug Kleckner inspects an ear of corn on his farm near St. Ansgar, Iowa, on Sept. 15, 2009. (Associated Press)
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More than four feet of sand is brought to the beach along the seawall in January in Galveston to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Ike. According to Steve LeBlanc, the city manager of Galveston, the sand is being brought over to the seawall from the east end of the island. In some places, they are adding up to 200 feet of beach. The main concern is to protect the wood pylons beneath the concrete of the seawall. (Associated Press)
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"Taps" is played at Ground Zero during a 9/11 memorial ceremony on September 11, 2009 in New York City. Family of the victims, government officials and others gathered at the annual ceremony to remember the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people with the destruction of the World Trade Center, the crash at the Pentagon and United 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Chang W. Lee-Pool/Getty Images)
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Locals wait out a storm in Goma, where the main thoroughfare is choked with potholes that fill with rainwater. Hunger and disease have killed an estimated 5 million people in Congo since 1998. "By any yardstick, [Congo] has been a humanitarian disaster, and one the world has ignored," says John Holmes, undersecretary-general of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Pam Service, curator of the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka, Calif., guards a stuffed condor, one of the last to fly over California's North Coast. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS OVERLOOKED: A wheelchair sits outside the main entrance to a nursing home in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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** FILE ** New York state troopers investigate a fatal accident in which eight people were killed July 26 in Hawthorne, N.Y. A medical examiner found that the driver traveling the wrong way on the highway was legally drunk and high on marijuana.
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Khavdal Khurman worked in a Soviet run coal mine outside Naliakh, Mongolia, for 11 years. The mine was closed down in 1990 after the democratic revolution, because of safety concerns. Now he picks through the detritus from surface coal shafts for fuel to heat his ger. He survives on a small pension from the government because of mining related illness, but believes the new democracy will lead to a better life for Mongolians. (J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times)
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Since 2004, Muslim separatists in the three provinces bordering Malaysia have been waging a fierce insurgency that has claimed more than 7,000 lives. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
