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Workers move a section of well casing into place at a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site near Burlington, Pa. Fracking uses water mixed with sand and chemicals to break underground rock and release large amounts of gas. (Associated Press)
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GEOEYE SATELLITE IMAGE VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS This Sept. 26, 2009 file satellite image shows a facility under construction inside a mountain located about 20 miles northeast of Qom, Iran. Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site that is well protected from possible foreign airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday.
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Wake Forest's C.J. Harris, right, shoots the game-winning shot over Virginia Tech's Erick Green, left, in the final seconds of Wake Forest's 58-55 win in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (center) is joined Jan. 6, 2012, at a campaign event in Conway, S.C., by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (left) and wife Ann. (Associated Press)
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The new U.S. Embassy in Malta is being built several miles from the Mediterrean island nation's capital, Valletta. (State Department photo)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 photo, Mizuho Nakayama shops at a grocery shop near her house in Tokyo. Japan's nuclear crisis has turned Nakayama into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms. In the days and weeks following the March 11 tsunami, frustration over the sketchy information coming from the government about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant drove many Japanese to Twitter and alternative media webcasts. (AP Photo/Malcolm J. Foster)
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Ryan Homes is building 106 single-family homes on quarter-acre to half-acre sites at Lake Linganore at Eaglehead in Frederick. The Avalon model, with 2,935 square feet, is priced from $419,990 to $455,990.
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"The situation on the ground now, in humanitarian terms, is grim. Because people fled town, they didn't take anything with them. They've been in the bush for up to a week. They haven't had food, they haven't had access to clean water, in a number of cases their people are wounded." - Lise Grande, U.N. deputy humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan.
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Elephant herds were thriving in Kenya's Tsavo East National Park and other parts of eastern and southern Africa since ivory trade was banned in 1989. Now, the animals are not safe from poachers just about anywhere on the continent. (Associated Press)
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Malaysian customs officers last month seized hundreds of elephant tusks worth an estimated $1.3 million. Asian crime syndicates are increasingly involved in poaching and in the illegal ivory trade across Africa, a wildlife trade monitoring group says. (Associated Press)
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Northstar Disposal Services LLC in Youngstown, Ohio, has halted operations at its injection well, which disposes of brine used in gas and oil drilling, after a series of small earthquakes in the area, including a magnitude 4.0 on New Year's Eve. (Associated Press)
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Redskins guard Chris Chester (66) was the most consistent offensive lineman in the season finale against the Eagles. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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James Durbin, an "American Idol" finalist, married longtime girlfriend Heidi Lowe in a New Year's Eve ceremony at the edge of a California redwood forest. (Associated Press)
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Flames raise from a gas pipeline after an explosion near the town Rastan in the restive Homs province of Syria on Jan. 3, 2012. The Syrian government blamed the explosion on terrorists, according to the Syrian official news agency SANA. (Associated Press/SANA)
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"When the rules are subjective and continue to change, we cannot expect these business owners to comply with moving target regulations. These inconsistent rulings from the bureau are confusing and result in a waste of time and resources," said Rep. Phil Gingrey (right), Georgia Republican. (Associated Press)
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Jeff Halpern won 58.3 of his faceoffs in the 2011-12 season with the Capitals. He signed a one-year deal with the Rangers this offseason. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore running back Ray Rice breaks away from the pack for a 70-yard touchdown against Cincinnati. Rice also had a 51-yard TD run.
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Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters assist a man out of his apartment along with a cage of birds as multiple cars burn in a carport in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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Burning cars are shown at the site of an arson fire in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Friday Dec.30, 2011. An arsonist torched car after car early Friday, sending firefighters scrambling to put out more than a dozen blazes in Hollywood and neighboring West Hollywood. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
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Bahraini anti-government protesters wear and hold national flags Dec. 30, 2011, during a sit-in near Abu Saiba, Bahrain, in the center of a traffic circle on a highway that runs past several Shiite Muslim villages. (Associated Press)
