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Residents fearing more aftershocks following Sunday's strong earthquake sit on a basketball court at a university in Gangtok, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Soldiers clean up a quake-hit house in Yadong County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. At least seven people have died in the county after Sunday's strong temblor. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wen Tao)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, a Buddhist monk looks at a monastery damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo)
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Police on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, look for victims in a house that collapsed after Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital. (AP Photo)
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On Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, Indians walk past a crack in a road caused by an earthquake in Gangtok, India, on Sunday. The powerful temblor damaged more than 100,000 homes in the remote Himalayan region, officials said. (AP Photo)
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Residents on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, stand near the debris of a building that collapsed following an earthquake in Gangtok, India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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A young Indian girl who was injured in a building collapse that followed a magnitude-6.9 earthquake is treated at a hospital in Siliguri, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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Women in Katmandu, Nepal, remove bricks from a damaged house on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, to make way for pedestrians after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake shook northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will address the U.N.'s "Private Sector Forum 2011" at noon Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Residents stand near the debris of a building that collapsed in Gangtok, India, the capital of Sikkim state in northeastern India, after the earthquake. The temblor killed people in Nepal, Tibet and India.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS An Indian girl who was injured in a building collapse when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit remote villages in the Himalayas on Sunday evening is treated at a hospital in Siliguri, India. At least 53 people, including three rescuers, were killed and 100,00 homes damaged.
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Yasuo Shimizu stands beside his colorful new barber shop in the devastated port area of Ofunato, Japan. The paintings on the shop depict volunteers who helped relief and recovery efforts. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Yasuo Shimizu stands beside his colorful new barber shop in the devastated port area of Ofunato, Japan. The paintings on the shop depict volunteers who helped relief and recovery efforts. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks at the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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A woman looks out of a window in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sept. 19, 2011, at debris from collapsed buildings that were damaged the previous day by an earthquake that shook northeast India, Nepal and Tibet. (Associated Press)
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Cast members of MTV's "Jersey Shore" pose at their television home in Seaside Heights, N.J. The New Jersey state Economic Development Authority approved covering $420,000 of the production costs for the reality series' inaugural 2009 season. (Associated Press)
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Nepalese rescue workers and other people look on after after a wall at the the British Embassy's compound collapsed, reportedly killing three pedestrians, following a magnitude-6.8 earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
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Beazer Homes is building 38 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Coles Run Manor in Manassas. The Juniper model, with 2,674 square feet, is priced from $404,990.
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Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer, shown in an undated photo, was deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Ganjgal Village in Afghanistan's Kunar province. The 23-year-old former Marine scout sniper from Columbia, Ky., who has since left the corps, will become the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in decades. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps)
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LENDER: Jonathan Silver, head of the Energy Department program that approved the $535 million deal for Solyndra in 2009, faced some of the toughest questioning Wednesday by a House investigations subcommittee. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
