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In this Oct. 13, 2011 photo, Funafuti, the main island of the nation state of Tuvalu, is seen from a Royal New Zealand airforce C130 aircraft as it approaches at Funafuti, Tuvalu, South Pacific. Funafuti is the capital of Tuvalu, a group of atolls situated north of Fiji and northwest of Samoa, in the South Pacific ocean. The atolls are suffering a severe drought and water shortage, coupled with contaminated ground water due to rising sea levels. The governments of Australia, New Zealand and the United States are providing desalination plants to alleviate the critical water shortage for some 10,000 islanders. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Miller & Smith is building 256 town homes and town-home-style condominium homes at Gallery Park in Clarksburg. The homes have approximately 1,226 to 1,862 finished square feet, with base prices from $239,990 to $309,990.
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks to the media as he arrives for an European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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"Politics is about momentum; politics is about expectations," says former New Mexico Gov. Gary E. Johnson, a dark-horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
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NATO and U.S. flags wave in the breeze outside NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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** FILE ** Whether running drills or just hanging out, Maryland defensive lineman A.J. Francis doesn't do anything half speed. "I just am who I am," he said. That's never going to change." (The Washington Times)
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The United States' last B53 nuclear bomb was dismantled Tuesday at the Pantex Plant just outside Amarillo, Texas. It is a milestone in President Obama's efforts to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. (Associated Press)
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Lisa Jefferson and her fiance Delante Pierce, both of D.C., stop to pet "Namaste" outside the Verizon Center at the annual Washington International Horse Show on Oct. 25, 2011, in D.C. The event runs Oct. 25-30 and features top riders and horses competing from the U.S. and abroad. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Decades of fraught relations between the Israeli government and Bedouin Arabs living in the hardscrabble Negev Desert are coming to a head over a state plan that would expel 30,000 of the nomads from unauthorized tent encampments and shantytowns and move them into some of the country's most destitute towns. (Associated Press)
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In this July 8, 2004, photo taken by a trap camera and released by WWF, the last rhino in Vietnam is shown in Cat Tien National Park in Lam Dong Province, southern Vietnam. Vietnam has lost its fight to save its Javan rhinoceros population after poachers apparently killed the country's last animal for its horn, an international conservation group WWF said in a report Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/WWF)
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The United States' last B53 nuclear bomb is being dismantled on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at the Pantex Plant just outside Amarillo, Texas. (AP Photo/National Nuclear Security Administration)
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Scottsdale Scorpions right fielder Bryce Harper in the second inning during a Fall League baseball game against the Mesa Solar Sox on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Mesa. (Rick Scuteri/Special to The Washington Times)
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Women wait as rescuers work to save people from debris of their collapsed buildings in Ercis, eastern Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. More than 200 people were killed after a powerful quake struck in eastern Turkey with dozens of people are still trapped in debris, but authorities hope the death toll may not rise as high as initially feared. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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Rescue workers evacuate a victim after pulling her from earthquake rubble in the town of Ercis in Van province, Turkey. The 7.2-magnitude quake Sunday killed an estimated 300 people in eastern Turkey. (Associated Press)
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on Monday said that his declaration of a fiscal emergency in the debt-ridden state capital, Harrisburg, “ensures that vital services will continue and public safety will be protected.” (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Argentine President Cristina Fernandez flashes a victory sign while celebrating her re-election with supporters in Buenos Aires on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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People walk by the debris of collapsed buildings in Ercis, Turkey, on Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake the day before. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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In a growing effort by farmers to help bees thrive, (from right) Nikiko Masumoto, Mace Vaughan of the Xerces Society and naturalist Steve Haze plant native shrubs that are attractive to bees at the Masumoto farm in Del Rey, Calif. (Associated Press)
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An undated artist rendering provided by EADS Astrium shows the scientific satellite ROSAT, which entered the Earth's atmosphere between 9:45 and 10:15 p.m. EDT Saturday and would have taken only 10 or 15 minutes to hit the ground. (AP Photo/EADS Astrium)
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez appears at her closing campaign rally in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
