Environment

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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)

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This handout image provided by NASA shows a solar flare heading toward Earth. (Associated Press/NASA)

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"He's speaking for my Marine Corps," Melissa Campbell recalls thinking about a man claiming to be a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.

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Global Space Agency's astronaut Liang Qi interacts with some unusual plant life in the iPad game Waking Mars.

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Voters cast their ballots at the Sarah Smith Elementary School in Atlanta's North Buckhead area on March 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan casts a shadow on the wall during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA's board of governors at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: "The president of the United States has enormous capacity to enable the increased production of American oil and American gas. By deregulation, by opening up the Gulf, by opening up fields in Alaska, by opening up federal lands." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner wrote to President Obama about greenhouse gas rule-making: "These rules ... stand to cost 180,000 American jobs per year." (Associated Press)

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Piles of debris are all that remain, right, at the site of the St. Louis Catholic church, which collapsed a day earlier following explosions at an adjacent munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Congo Monday, March 5, 2012. Unknown numbers of victims are believed to be trapped under the rubble as rescues wait for the area to be safe to enter. (AP Photo/Elie Mbena)