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Passengers board an Amtrak Acela train bound for New York at Union Station in Washington in 2008. (The Washington Times)
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The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge in February 2008. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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Redskins safety Sean Taylor. (Peter Lockley/The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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Erosion control devices line the beach in Galveston, Texas. The geotubes had been covered by dunes before Hurricane Ike hit the island last month. Many parts of Galveston remain littered with debris and are not ready to host the crowds that they usually attract. (Associated Press)
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A television screen at the New York Stock Exchange shows the decision of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. The emergency cut led by the Federal Reserve will at least temporarily provide relief for investors who have been battered this week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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An F-22 Raptor takes off from Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va., as a crew member prepares an F-15 for flight operations. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Wreckage from the Maryland State Police medevac helicopter crash that killed four people is scattered on one side in Walter Mill Regional Park in District Heights in September 2008.
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The crew of the Enola Gay, including pilot Col. Paul W. TIbbets (center), gathers near the B-29 in the Northern Mariana Islands in August 1945.
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A new study says Americans are endangered by flame retardant chemicals through dust and air in their cars, especially in hotter temperatures. Those chemicals are in seat foam to slow down fire if the car bursts into flames.
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** FILE ** Flags commemorate each of the victims killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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A lighted flag hangs on the side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008, where American Airlines Flight 77 hit the building on Sept. 11, 2001. A streak of white in the sky came from a plane departing Reagan National Airport. (The Washington Times)
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The Pentagon is shown after terrorists crashed an American Airlines Boeing 757 into the building on Sept. 11, 2001. (The Washington Times)
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Southbound traffic on the inner loop of the Capitol Beltway is diverted at St. Barnabas Road in Oxon Hill, Md., after a big-rig accident closed the interstate on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2001. (The Washington Times)
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A B-52 bomber, like this one at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, crashed off Guam, killing at least two people, the Air Force reported. (Associated Press)
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A hazardous materials worker suits up before entering the Hart Senate Office Building at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC Thursday, November 1, 2001.
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Members of international relief group Oxfam, dressed as G-8 leaders, hold balloons representing the amount of carbon the countries emit per capita, near the summit in Japan on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Fireworks explode over the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., Friday, July 4, 2008.
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Associated Press The American Medical Association has advised college campuses since 2006 to warn women about the hazards of spring break after surveying 644 young women to find that three-fourths of them "use drinking as an excuse for outrageous behavior."
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said her campaign received a "flood" of calls about voter intimidation among Culinary Workers Union members in Nevada. "The evidence is pretty compelling," she said.
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This driver in Lawrenceville, N.J., likely gummed up the ride for his fellow motorists, according a new study that looked at how using cellphones can impair speed and traffic awareness. (Associated Press)
