Environment

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Damon Rasinya carts debris Nov. 8, 2012, from his family home past the fire-scorched landscape of Breezy Point in New York after a Nor'easter snowstorm. The beachfront neighborhood was devastated during Superstorm Sandy when a fire pushed by the raging winds destroyed many homes. (Associated Press)

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Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary in Seattle, works on balancing the pH level of the soil used to grow new medical marijuana plants on Nov. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Integrity Homes is building up to 300 single-family homes at Willowsford in Aldie. The Addison model has 2,986 square feet and is priced from $549,990 to $579,990.

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Yellow taped is draped in front of a home damaged in a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck in San Marcos, Guatemala, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he “traveled literally tens of thousands of miles” to campaign for Mitt Romney. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, a Syrian rebel fires at snipers in Harem, Syria. (Associated Press)

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Workers search the debris of a collapsed five-story shopping center in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Thompson)

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**FILE** A worker fixes a solar panel Nov. 10, 2011, at a factory in Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province. (Associated Press/Xinhua, Liang Xiaopeng)

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Bill Klipp of Florida works on cleaning out his father's flood-damaged home on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Brick, N.J. The city is ordering mandatory evacuations in advance of an approaching nor'easter and in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Denzel Washington as pilot Whip Whitaker in “Flight” manages to make an emergency landing of his aircraft despite being hung-over, drunk and coked-up. (Paramount Pictures via Associated Press)

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A resident in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., walks to the Atlantic Highlands Emergency Services Building to vote Nov. 6, 2012, as power outages from superstorm Sandy forced the town to condense all the districts into one location. (Associated Press)