Environment

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** FILE ** A young girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay on Sunday, March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Virginia Tech forward Dorian Finney-Smith and Duke's Mason Plumlee vie for a lose ball during the second half in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Friday, March 9, 2012, in Atlanta. Duke won 60-56. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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Alexander Semin signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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** FILE ** The sun rises March 8, 2012, over Mount Hood in Portland, Ore. The largest solar storm in five years has engulfed Earth, but scientists say the planet has lucked out so far. (Associated Press)

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"John Carter" sees Taylor Kitsch transported to Mars where he leads the resident Thark people against an invader. (Disney via Associated Press)

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Jim Larranaga, in his first year at Miami after a successful stint at George Mason, has the Hurricanes in play for an NCAA bid. (Associated Press)

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A man washes a door in a bathtub outside a home in Hirono, Japan, part of an attempt to remove radioactive contamination. Hirono is outside the nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Officials say there is no successful example they can follow for the cleanup, and they don't know how to judge the effectiveness of a process that is expected to last for years or even decades. (Associated Press)

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The Notorious B.I.G. at the annual Billboard Music Awards in New York, Dec. 6, 1995. (Associated Press)

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Maryland center Alex Len dunks the ball against Wake Forest center Carson Desrosiers in the second half of of the first-round Atlantic Coast Conference tournament game, Thursday, March 8, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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This advertising poster was distributed at Marine Corps recruiting stations as part of a new Corps television, Web and print advertising campaign launched in March 2012. (Associated Press/U.S. Marine Corps)

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This extreme ultraviolet wavelength image provided by NASA shows a solar flare. (Associated Press/NASA)

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**FILE** Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivers the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A neon sign greets visitors to South of the Border, a resort in Dillon, S.C., near the North Carolina-South Carolina line, in this undated publicity photo. (Associated Press)

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Brookfield Homes is building 150 single-family homes on 7,000-square-foot sites at the Preserve at Goose Creek in Ashburn. The Yates model, with 3,097 square feet, is priced from $529,990.

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"These are not your grandma's windmills.[They] destroy the environment in the name of saving the environment." - Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican.

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**FILE** Workers build temporary housing for tsunami and radiation evacuees in Hirono, just outside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan, on Feb. 20, 2012. (Associated Press)