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President Obama speaks at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., on March 15, 2013. The president urged congress to authorize $200 million a year for research into clean energy technologies that can wean automobiles off oil. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this March 7, 2013, photo released by the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center) uses binoculars to look at the South's territory from an observation post at the military unit on Jangjae islet, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of North Korea's border with South Korea. (Associated Press/KCNA via KNS) **FILE**
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I do not believe that any member of Congress wants to shut down the D.C. government … due to a purely federal matter.” (The Washington Times)
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With millions more upwardly mobile Chinese buying cars every year, the need for gas is growing, too, creating lines at gas stations requiring traffic directors. China is now the world’s biggest and fastest-growing market for automobiles. (Imaginechina via Associated Press)
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A proposal to build a third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, Md., was rejected Monday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this undated handout photo made available by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1, is seen in Lusby, Md. (Associated Press/USNC)
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South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on March 11, 2013. North and South Korea staged dueling war games as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010. (Associated Press)
