Environment

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Miller & Smith is building 36 town homes in the Magic Collection at Victory Lakes in Bristow. The homes have 2,463 to 2,686 finished square feet, with base prices from $309,990 to $324,990.

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett fires up the crowd on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, during a campaign stop in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A plume of smoke rises from the Whitewater fire in the Gila National Forest east of Glenwood, N.M., on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (AP Photo/David Thornburg)

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Rescue teams use dogs as they look for three workers reported missing at a factory in Medolla, Italy, after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the same area shaken by a larger tremor nine days earlier. (Associated Press)

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Italian firefighters search the debris of a collapsed factory in Mirandola, northern Italy, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the same area of northern Italy stricken by another fatal tremor on May 20. (AP Photo/Marco Vasini)

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Smog clouds the view most days from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park, Calif. The pollutants are making life tough for the iconic sequoias - the biggest and oldest living things on Earth - and various pines. Visitors are warned to be wary, too. (Associated Press)

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A vegetable vendor peeks out from behind a sign promoting arugula at a market in Buenos Aires. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Officers of the urban management bureau, known as chengguan in Chinese, demand Nov. 20, 2011, a beggar and his child leave a street in Guiyang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. (Associated Press)

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Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center, discusses the upcoming hurricane season at a press conference in Miami on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)