Environment

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Jeneba Tarmoh (right), shown with Carmelita Jeter, finished in a dead heat with Allyson Felix in the 100 at the U.S. trials on Saturday. Tarmoh and Felix will be competing for spots in the 200 meters starting Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Iowa farmer Matt Danner stands among the corn on his farm near Templeton. The state, which is enjoying a booming farm economy, could be crucial in deciding who will win the presidency of a country still reeling from recession. (Associated Press)

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Utility crews work to fix damage equipment in Bladensburg, Md. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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Lam Jibola, right, pulls a plastic sheet over the broken back window of a car in Bladensburg, Md. A mircoburst, a small concentrate downdraft, struck the area on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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Clean up crews work to clear debris from the area near Newton St. and 54th Avenue that was hit by a storm on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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The roof of an apartment building near was destroyed in Bladensburg, Md after a storm on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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Rubble smolders Sunday from a home consumed by fire a day earlier in Estes Park, Colo. Eight wildfires are burning across Colorado, with temperatures near 100 degrees and gusty winds fueling flames in tinder-dry conditions. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this image made from the monitor at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (center), Liu Wang (left) and Liu Yang celebrate aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft after a successful manual docking between the spacecraft and the Tiangong-1 lab module on Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua)

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This NOAA satellite image taken on Saturday, June 23, 2012, shows shower and thunderstorm activity developing around an area of low pressure spinning in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

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Emergency responders work on a wild land fire that is threatening homes in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Friday, June 22, 2012. About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials were calling in additional aircraft to fight the fast-moving fire near Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. At one point, the fire threatened an explosives factory. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)

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Environmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech June 22, 2012, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. (Associated Press)