Environment

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Professional test driver Dave McMillan demonstrates the dashboard warning signal in a Buick Lacrosse at an automobile test area. The display at a recent transportation conference was a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that talk to each other and warn drivers of impending collisions. (Associated Press)

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Larry Hagman (left) and Patrick Duffy reprise their roles as oil barons J.R. and Bobby Ewing, respectively, on TNT's relaunch of the show "Dallas." This chapter keeps up with the times by working environmental issues into the plot. (TNT via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti is seen during a state function in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2005. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

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Debris is strewn June 6, 2012, across the shore of Montague Island near Seward, Alaska. More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, neither the U.S. government nor some West Coast states have a clear plan for how to clean up the rubble that floats to American shores. (Associated Press/Chris Pallister)

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The Napa Valley resort, Auberge du Soleil, with La Plage below, is seen in early evening in Rutherford, Calif. (Auberge du Soleil via Associated Press)

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The kitchen, which is open to the dining area and great room, has granite counters and a center island with a five-burner cooktop.

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Enterprise Homes and the family of Abe Pollin are building 83 town homes at MetroTowns at Parkside in Northeast Washington. The homes have 1,288 to 1,444 finished square feet, with base prices from $259,900 to $284,900.

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The space shuttle Enterprise is towed June 3, 2012, on a barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York. The prototype space shuttle that arrived in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea, to its final resting place at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the west side of Manhattan. (Associated Press)

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