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Shafts of light streak across safety netting to catch falling debris before the Service of Holy Eucharist begins, the first day the Cathedral is reopened to the public after being closed for almost 3 months from earthquake damage. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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**FILE** An employee works May 31, 2009, at the Tawke oil fields in the semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. (Associated Press)
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A couple stand in front of flooded River Street in Nome, Alaska, on Wednesday. High winds and surging waves pummeled Alaska's western coast, forcing residents of Nome and isolated native villages to seek higher ground inland. (Associated Press)
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In late September, more than seven months after the Feb. 22 collapse of the Canterbury Television building in Christchurch, New Zealand, memorials to those who died adorn a fence surrounding the empty lot, from which the rubble had been cleared. The quake struck a year earlier, in September 2010. (Associated Press)
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Charlie Weyauvanna plays in sea foam late on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, as a large Bering Sea storm intensifies in Nome, Alaska. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Peggy Fagerstrom)
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K. Hovnanian is building 62 town homes at the Pointe at ArundelPreserve in Hanover. The homes have approximately 1,900 finished square feet, with base prices from $347,990 to $359,990.
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Worker Tony Frye prepares to install a chain link fence for the soon-to-be-completed Prince George's County phase of the ICC, Maryland Route 200. "We've had people working very hard to make this a success," said project director Melinda Peters. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Calvin Thompson's play will greatly affect Howard's success this season. (Howard University Athletics)
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Israeli government minister Uzi Landau likens European leaders' efforts to get Iran to curb its nuclear program to Britain's early “appeasement” diplomacy with Adolf Hitler. (Associated Press)
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Kids in Nome, Alaska, play in sea foam near the town's harbor late on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011, as a big Bering Sea storm starts kicking up waves. (AP Photo/Peggy Fagerstrom)
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This image from the NOAA-19 satellite's AVHRR sensor shows the strong storm bearing down on western Alaska in this infrared imagery on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, at 5 a.m. EST. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
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Hollywood producer/director Brett Ratner. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Capitals rookie center Cody Eakin scored his first NHL goal in his second game, a 5-1 road victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Scottsdale Scorpions catcher Derek Norris hits 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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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (right) arrives for a Cabinet meeting at the Parliament in Athens on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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China is using every means available to fill the burgeoning demand for electricity around the nation — such as this wind farm south of Urumqi city in Xinjiang, China — as well as to add to its portfolio of exports to the West. (Associated Press)
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A family rests in its new apartment home after relocating from farmlands in northern China. While trying to protect farmland from development amid a housing boom, officials are going after the land under farmers' homes. (Associated Press)
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A police forensic team examines the bodies of three people said to be gang members and killed by unidentified assailants in the village of Los Hornos, Honduras. Honduras has become a main transit route for South American cocaine, a trend that has helped drive the country's homicide rate to the highest level in the world and left many villages dependent on the cocaine trade. (Associated Press)
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A man and woman kiss at the riverfront promenade called "the Bund," one of the most popular tourist spots in Shanghai, an economic hub for China's changing economy. (Associated Press)
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A container ship visits the port in Ningbo, China, which has been in business for 1,200 years and now handles more than 100 million tons of cargo a year. It is one of the few in the world to reach that mark. (Orange County [Calif.] Register)
