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In a Sept. 24, 2013 photo Mark Sundberg checks his apiary in Richville, Minn. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will give the Legislature a report on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, outlining a plan to study the use of a popular category of insecticides linked to bee deaths. The Department of Natural Resources is developing separate guidelines to improve habitat for the pollinating insects, which are critical to agriculture. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Dan Gunderson)
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A Ford Mustang is seen in the automaker's display area at the North American International Auto Show is seen in Detroit, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In this Jan. 9, 2014 photo, Neil Crocker, the plant manager for the Hankinson Renewable Energy ethanol plant in Hankinson, N.D. stands in front of sections of the facility. The plant in southeastern North Dakota is under new ownership. Arkansas-based Murphy USA Inc. has sold Hankinson Renewable Energy LLC for $173 million to Guardian Hankinson LLC in a deal that closed late last year. Crocker said the ownership transition for the plant won’t change how things are run. (AP Photo/The (Wahpeton) Daily News, Matthew Liedke)
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Kim Mahar of the Capital City Fire/Rescue's rope rescue team throws a floation device to teammate Travis Mead during a demonstration of an ice rescue on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014 at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau, Ak. Nearly 150 Juneauites trekked to the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center recently for a lesson in surviving falling into icy waters. (AP Photo/The Juneau Empire,Michael Penn )
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An oil worker connects pipes on a new oil rig Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in the Persian Gulf desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. The price of oil struggled to advance much beyond $92 a barrel Tuesday on expectations that supplies will rise with ramped up output in Libya and the North Sea, along with more exports from Iran if a deal on its nuclear program succeeds.(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, sunflowers are seen in a field near Woodward, Okla. In South Dakota, sunflower farmers in 2013 rebounded from a crippling drought in 2012, while their counterparts in North Dakota struggled through a wet spring planting season and a late harvest. The end result is that South Dakota has supplanted North Dakota as the nation's top sunflower producer for only the second time in recorded history. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
