Environment

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**FILE** Marty Snell of Black Hills Power monitors track operations of the Wygen III power plant in Wyodak, Wyo., on April 28, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Pulte Homes is building 150 Grand Villa town homes on 6,500-square-foot sites at Trent Grove at Brambleton in Ashburn. The homes have approximately 3,161 to 3,660 finished square feet, with base prices from $434,990 to $469,990.

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What brightens summer more than ice cream? Make it even more special by baking sugary cookies to create fresh ice cream sandwiches. (Associated Press)

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The view from an outdoor snack shop at Hudson River Park in Lower Manhattan may be urban, but the park, created over the past decade from a run-down industrial area, offers a variety of active recreation, including skateboarding, biking, volleyball, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, minigolf, playgrounds and even bird-watching, with 85 species. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Jim Jordan said government officials in the Department of Energy’s loan office ignored the warning signs. He said a credit-rating firm has said the company was “a bad risk.” (Associated Press)

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Guard Jeremy Lin (17) created a global sensation after he was called up from the developmental league in December. He signed a three-year, $25 million deal with Houston, where he will wear No. 7. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks about the drought during the press briefing at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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“The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs” is the first book released by The Bush Institute. (The Bush Institute)

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The swamp-soccer world championships are played in the marshes of Hyrynsalmi in eastern Finland, where players sink into the wet turf with every step. In the heat of the battle, the players get completely covered in mud. (Pohjolan Mylly/Special to The Washington Times)

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Tiger Woods has three British Open championships, at St. Andrews in 2000 and 2005, and at Royal Liverpool in 2006. His most recent major championship was the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2008. (Associated Press)