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**FILE** A Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kan., is seen on June 22, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Eagles Landing, an 11-acre estate in Lorton with views of the Potomac River, is on the market for $5,374,000. The grounds include a carriage house with a three-car garage.
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The center-island kitchen in the Kentwell model is open to the breakfast area. The kitchen has granite counters and oak cabinets.
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The Washington Nationals expect their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night to go on as usual after an earthquake shook the area. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** An employee (left) of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kan., greets an inspector from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, outside the clinic. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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A wildfire burns near Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Thousands of residents calmly fled from the town that's home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, ahead of an approaching wildfire that sent up towering plumes of smoke, rained down ash and sparked a spot fire on lab property where scientists 50 years ago conducted underground tests of radioactive explosives. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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** FILE ** The Obama administration recently decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country's emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)
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Demonstrators run away from tear gas during a demonstration in Athens. A general strike disrupted services across Greece. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
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The University of California San Diego's engineering institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is illuminated by flames behind it in Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday. Thousands of people were driven from their homes, but officials tried to dispel concerns about the safety of sensitive lab materials. (Associated Press)
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Darius Mason has lots of powerful weapons to battle some of Mars's indigenous species in the video game Red Faction: Armageddon.
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Floodwaters from the swollen Missouri River surround the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Fort Calhoun, Neb., on Monday, June 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is taking only small steps to promote clean energy and protect the Chesapeake Bay, environmental activists say. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Debris from the Souris River surrounds a house in Minot, N.D. As the river hit its record-shattering peak and began a slow retreat, residents looked ahead to an arduous rebuilding job while continuing to deal with short-term obstacles such as sharing the homes of friends and relatives, traffic tie-ups and an advisory to boil drinking water. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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An aerial view of flooded homes in Burlington, N.D. Just 375 of the 4,000 homes in flooded areas were insured for floods, FEMA spokesman John Ashton said. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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The Souris River peaked with the highest level of water on record surrounding homes on 3rd St. N.W. on Monday, June 27, 2011 in Minot, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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CRITIC: Former Vice President Al Gore says President Obama has "failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change." (Associated Press)
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An Idaho couple's half-acre of land is at the center of a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency. Mike and Chantell Sackett were told in 2007 by the EPA that they couldn't develop their property because it was a federally designated wetland. (Pacific Legal Foundation photograph)
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Low-rise buildings are in the early stages of construction by Minmetals Land Ltd., the real estate development arm of China Minmetals Corp., China's largest metals trader, in Guangdong, China. Residents of Hallstatt, Austria, have mixed emotions about their village being copied.
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In this aerial photo, a Conoco gas station is surrounded by sand bags, the flood waters of the Souris River and an oil slick Friday, June 24, 2011, in Minot, N.D. North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the Souris River is flowing over most levees in Minot as it surges past a 130-year-old record level. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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**FILE** In this photo from May 29, 2010, Shawn Cole (left), 12, of Hinsdale, N.H., and Peter Rosploch, 11, of Winchester, N.H., fish in the Connecticut River across from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. (Associated Press)
