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** FILE ** A Taiwanese soldier stands at attention in front of a Patriot missile air defense system near the northern coastal town of Wanli, Taiwan, in October 2004. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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New X-ray research has shown that "Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses" really is by Vincent van Gogh. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this April 10, 2010 file photo, U.S. actor Sean Penn carries the belongings of a person displaced by the earthquake as people are relocated from the Petion ville Golf Club to a new camp, Corail-Cesselesse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake. Penn is to receive the 2012 Peace Summit Award at the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at an event in Chicago in April 2012 and is expected to draw such luminaries as Poland's Lech Walesa and the Dalai Lama. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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Susan Eisenhower, President Eisenhower's granddaughter, has been critical of the design and is expected to testify before the hearing of the House subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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"The American Dream is still alive for those who pursue it," writes Sen. Marco Rubio in his forthcoming autobiography. (Sentinel Books)
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A helicopter flies above the Jefferson Memorial, seen here through cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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People take pictures of the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., from paddle boats on March 19, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A bison roams freely outside a pen enclosing others in Gardiner, Mont., in Yellowstone National Park. On Monday, 64 bison from Yellowstone were to arrive at Montana's Fort Peck Reservation under a relocation initiative to repopulate parts of the West with the animals. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Tongan King George Tupou V, who championed a more democratic system of government in his Pacific island nation, sits on the throne in Nuku'aloka, Tonga, in August 2008. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Glenn Jeffrey, File)
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President Obama holds hands with his daughters, Malia (left) and Sasha, as they leave Sea Life Park, a marine wildlife park, with family friends in Waimanalo, Hawaii, in December. (Associated Press)
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Oil wealth, if it occurs, stands to change the way of life on the Falklands. A survey ship (top) sails in Stanley Harbor before leaving on a scientific mission to study the undersea topography for offshore oil exploration. Penguins gather on the coast of Murrell Farm near the northeastern corner of the islands. (Associated Press)
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A house is missing part of its roof on Noble Drive in Huron Farms neighborhood of Dexter, Mich., on March 15, 2012, after a tornado hit the neighborhood. The slow-moving storm was part of a system packing large hail, heavy rain and high winds. (Associated Press/AnnAbor.Com)
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Brandon Meriweather made two Pro Bowls in New England, but the Patriots cut him before the 2011 season. He was subsequently signed by the Bears. Meriweather's signing is another sign LaRon Landry will not return. (Associated Press)
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As the sun rises over the Tidal Basin, Cory Cain, a tree worker with the National Park Service trims dead branches from a cherry tree as the cherry blossoms make an early arrival in Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 15, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Beazer Homes is building active-adult condominiums at the Gatherings at Forest Glen in the planned community of Piney Orchard. Each home will have its own garage.
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"[W]e have a problem here," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, says at a hearing about the Obama administration's record on energy production. (Associated Press)
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A container ship is docked at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Ice partially covers the surface of Jew Pond in Mont Vernon, N.H., on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Rescuers search for victims of a ferry accident March 13, 2012, on the Meghna River in Munshiganj district, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Dhaka, India. The ferry, packed with about 200 people, capsized in the river in southern Bangladesh, killing 31 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said. (Associated Press)
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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks March 10, 2012, during a conference of the PASOK socialist party at Faliro, near Athens. (Associated Press)
