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**FILE** Steve Lipsky demonstrates how his well water ignites when he puts a flame to the flowing well spigot outside his family's home in rural Parker County near Weatherford, Texas, on Nov. 26, 2012. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had evidence a gas company's drilling operation contaminated Lipsky's drinking water with explosive methane, and possibly cancer-causing chemicals, but withdrew its enforcement action, leaving the family with no useable water supply, according to a report obtained by the Associated Press. (Associated Press)
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Warrior Princess A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender, by Kristin Beck (formerly Chris Beck). (source: Amazon Books)
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Firefighters and medical staff prepare to remove body bags that appears to contain the bodies of those killed by a fire at a poultry processing plant in northeast China's Jilin province's Mishazi township on Monday, June 3, 2013. The massive fire broke out at the poultry plant early Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing over a hundred people, reports and officials said. (AP Photo)
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A worker walks past the front cutting section of an enormous tunnel boring machine (TBM), named "Lady Bird" on display at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant before it is lowered 100 feet underground to begin a tunneling project under the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The tunneling is a major part of the D.C. Water's Clean Rivers Project to significantly reduce combined sewer overflows in the District for improved water quality. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Residents of North Cotabato province in the southern Philippines look at boulders that partially blocked a highway on Sunday, June 2, 2013, after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit late Saturday. (AP Photo/North Cotabato Provincial Office)
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The Thompson Ridge fire burns in an area just north of Jemez Springs, N.M., on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Fire crews in New Mexico were fighting two growing wild blazes that have scorched thousands of acres, spurred evacuation calls for dozens of homes and poured smoke into the touristy state capital of Santa Fe. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Roberto E. Rosales)
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A police officer offers directions to a driver leaving a heavily damaged supply yard for Cactus Drilling Co. in El Reno, Okla., on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Employee David Stottemyre was working in the lot when a tornado took aim at the plant. Mr. Stottemyre ran inside the large supply storage building and took shelter as the twister passed over, leaving the building in a twisted pile of steel and metal. He was not injured. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel)
