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Rescuers look for people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Anatolia, Abdurrahman Antakyali)
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Workers ride on their vehicle through a flooded road in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Thailand's catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Oct. 20, 2011, surveys damage to the Washington National Cathedral from the Aug. 23 earthquake (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Carcasses are scattered on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Sheriff's deputies shot 48 animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions, after Terry Thompson, owner of the private farm, threw their cages open Tuesday and then committed suicide. (Associated Press)
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A stuffed animal with a sympathy card attached hangs from the locked gate at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, Ohio, on Thursday. The owner of the farm released dozens of tigers, lions and others beasts.
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Host Ty Pennington and the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" crew's latest project is to build seven homes in seven days in Joplin, Mo. The community was devastated by a May 22 tornado that killed 162 people. (Waterloo Courier via Associated Press)
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Gray Ghost Vineyards rewards volunteer workers with a 15 percent discount on wine along with lunch and T-shirts. (Steve Hay/Special to The Washington Times)
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Some of the grapes from Gray Ghost Vineyards have started to rot on the vine. (Steve Hay/Special to The Washington Times)
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North Korean farmers walk along a road through a farm field outside the eastern coastal city of Wonsan. This autumn, as farmers fan out into fields of corn, wheat, rice and cabbage, such pastoral scenes obscure the problems that the communist state has adequately feeding its people, especially the children. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Glyn Davies, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, was named on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, as the new U.S. envoy on North Korea. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
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Toll Bros. is building 71 town homes in the Tournaments at Dominion Valley Country Club in Haymarket. The homes have 1,953 to 2,058 finished square feet, with base prices from $299,995 to $325,995.
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The main level of the Lindenhurst model has a family room with a gas fireplace adjacent to the kitchen and breakfast area. Upstairs are three bedrooms and two full baths.
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Investigators walk around a barn as animal carcasses lay on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, Ohio. Eighteeen rare Bengal tigers were among the nearly 50 animals killed by sheriff's deputies. Six animals were captured alive and taken to the Columbus Zoo. (Associated Press)
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A sign warning motorists that exotic animals are on the loose stands along I-70 near Zanesville, Ohio. A wolf and a monkey were still unaccounted for after sheriff's deputies hunted down and shot nearly 50 other wild animals that were apparently freed by their owner. (Associated Press)
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Chief Financial Officer W.G. Stover from the bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra refuses to answer questions as he appears before the House Energy Commitee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Sept. 23 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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The departure of State Department special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth highlights a policy split within the Obama administration about how to deal with he rogue communist state. (Associated Press)
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Investigators walk around a barn as carcasses lie on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm near Zanesville, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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Undated artist rendering provided by EADS Astrium shows the scientific satellite Rosat. The German Aerospace Center said the retired satellite is hurtling toward the atmosphere and pieces could crash into the earth as early as Friday. (AP Photo/EADS Astrium)
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A revolutionary fighter fires a rocket-propelled grenade at Gadhafi loyalists in downtown Sirte, Libya, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. About 1,000 Libyan revolutionary troops have launched a major assault on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, surging from the east to try to capture the last area under loyalist control. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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A revolutionary fighter fires a rocket-propelled grenade at Gadhafi loyalists in downtown Sirte, Libya, on Oct. 18, 2011. About 1,000 Libyan revolutionary troops have launched a major assault on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, surging from the east to try to capture the last area under loyalist control. (Associated Press)
