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** FILE ** Steam vapor rises from the cooling towers of Exelon Corp.'s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill, in March 2011. (AP Photo/Robert Ray, File)
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Courtesy of Topps, here's the image that will appear on Michael Morse's trading card for the 2012 season.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican presidential candidate, and his wife, Callista, campaign at the Villages in Lady Lake, Fla., on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama waves as he walks off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue, here at a Freightliner plant in Cleveland, N.C., has announced she will not run for re-election. Her approval ratings have been around 40 percent, and she faced a tough rematch against her 2008 opponent. (Associated Press)
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Residents retrieve belongings in December after authorities demolished their unauthorized houses in northeastern Delhi, which contains India's most crowded neighborhoods. Some homes are made of a single layer of brick, with extra floors added without support for the weight. Below, narrow streets are lined by buildings jammed together. Experts say a major earthquake is likely to hit the city, but next to nothing has been done to prepare for it, in part because of poverty. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue wears a Freightliner hat as she smiles Jan. 12, 2012, during a news conference at a Freightliner plant in Cleveland, N.C. (Associated Press)
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An inspector with Washington Gas finds a basement furnace to be the source of a carbon monoxide leak that sent three persons to the hospital, one in critical condition, for carbon monoxide poisoning at 1721 P St. N.W., Washington, D.C., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. A friend of the owner on the scene said that the furnace had recently been worked on. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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M/I Homes is building 47 town homes at Station View in Ashburn. The homes have 2,329 to 2,350 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,990 to $394,990.
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The home at 101 River Forest Lane in the Tantallon on the Potomac community in Fort Washington is on the market for $1,100,000. The six-bedroom home was built in 1987.
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The center-island kitchen in the Griffin model at the Legacy at Manning Village has an adjacent breakfast area.
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**FILE** The string of islands known as Senkaku islands in Japanese, and Diaoyu in Chinese, are seen here Sept. 29, 2010. Relations between China and Japan were strained when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels earlier that month near the islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries as well as Taiwan. (Associated Press)
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In this CD cover image released by Curb Records, the latest release by Tim McGraw, "Emotional Traffic," is shown. (AP Photo/Curb Records)
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Felicity Aston takes a picture of herself at Union Glacier on Nov. 19 before she traveled to her starting point on the Ross Ice Shelf for a solo ski trek across Antarctica. She completed her crossing on Monday. (Associated Press)
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Rob Van Winkle, also know as Vanilla Ice, lays flooring in the garage of a home he's remodeling in Wellington, Fla. After his early 1990 stardom faded, he became involved in real estate. He is starting in "The Vanilla Ice Project" a home renovation show, where the expert just happens to be Vanilla Ice. (Associated Press)
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Residents walk through the debris of their neighborhood after a possible tornado ripped through the Trussville, Ala., area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Poul Thomsen (right), the International Monetary Fund mission chief in Greece, European Commission official Matthias Mors (center) and Klaus Masuch of the European Central Bank leave Maximou mansion in Athens on Jan. 20, 2012, after a meeting with Greek Prime Minster Lucas Papademos. (Associated Press)
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Joe Paterno was a steady presence at Beaver Stadium, transforming Penn State into "Happy Valley" over 46 seasons. (Associated Press)
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Chobani produces 1.5 million cases of Greek yogurt a week at its plant in South Edmeston, N.Y. (Associated Press)
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The ruins of a home in Pleasant Valley, south of Reno, Nev., are seen on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, after a wind-driven brush fire raced through the area. The blaze started shortly after noon Thursday and, fueled by wind gusts reaching 82 mph, mushroomed to more than 6 square miles before firefighters stopped its surge toward Reno. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)
