Environment

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Maryland defensive backs Eric Franklin (left) and Jeremiah Johnson break up a pass intended for Wake Forest wide receiver Lovell Jackson during Saturday’s victory at College Park. (Associated Press)

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Dr. Lucy Wilson, with fellow Maryland public health official Josh Sharfstein, holds a news conference to explain response efforts to an outbreak of meningitis that may be linked to steroid injections. (Associated Press)

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One night shot shows Endurance, white and skeletal with its masts and cross-trees devoid of all its sails, foreshadows the coming disaster, on display in "The Photographs of Frank Hurley Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917." (The Ralls Collection)

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Donald Smith, of Atlanta, fills out an application Oct. 3, 2012, at the National Job Fair in Atlanta. (Associated Press)

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The Jasmine model at Longacre Village in Camden, Del., is one of six single-family models offered by K. Hovnanian Homes. It has from 1,866 to 2,500 square feet and is priced from $239,900.

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Marijuana plants are seen on Oct. 3, 2012, in Chicago, where officers say they discovered two football fields worth of pot plants growing on the city's South Side. Authorities say more than 1,000 cannabis plants — some as tall as Christmas trees — were discovered during a helicopter operation. (Associated Press)

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Cattle graze on a ranch outside of Encino, N.M. With drought drying out grazing land and driving up hay prices, authorities in drought-stricken states say some ranchers have started stealing hay or leaving gates open so their cattle can graze on greener pastures. (Associated Press)