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ASSOCIATED PRESS Tiger Woods (center) walks off the 18th green at Firestone Country Club after finishing his first tournament since the Masters.
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"I do have a resume that suggests that I am very credible," says former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. (Barbara Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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In this Aug. 5, 2011, photo, Emmanuel Hignutt with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation health lab shows samples of orange goo in Anchorage, Alaska. The samples were collected Aug. 3, 2011, in Kivalina, Alaska, after the mysterious goo came in from the Wulik River into the village's harbor. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, fishing boats are seen parked in the Shenjiamen Harbor in Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang province. China warned residents and alerted emergency relief centers Friday to prepare for Typhoon Muifa to hit the country's heavily populated eastern coast. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** A U.S. Marine, perched on a container, tries to take shelter from the dust as a Chinook helicopter arrives to pick up supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, June 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Associated Press Thomas Bigham, a Texas state park police officer, walks across the cracked bed of O.C. Fisher Lake on Wednesday in San Angelo, Texas. Weeks of 100-plus-degree heat and a lack of rain have left the 5,400-acre lake parched.
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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 32 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Raspberry Falls in Leesburg. The Truman model, with 4,283 square feet, is priced from $634,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS This artist's rendering shows a simulation of a collision between the moon and a companion moon about 4 billion years ago. Earth once had a second moon until it made the fatal mistake of smacking the moon in what some are calling the "big splat," astronomers now theorize.
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** FILE ** "Kitler," the kitten who was overlooked for adoption because of her resemblance to Adolf Hitler, found a loving home after hundreds of applications flooded the Wood Green Animal Shelter. (Daily Caller)
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This image taken at 2:32 a.m. EDT on Aug. 3, 2011, shows Tropical Storm Emily. The storm brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year's earthquake. (Associated Press/NASA)
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Geologist Matt Joeckel displays a core sample of carbonatite rock containing niobium and rare-earth elements, which was taken from a deposit near Elk Creek, Neb., in early February. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The Dawn spacecraft launched by NASA took this photo of the pockmarked surface of the asteroid Vesta from 9,500 miles away. The data gathered by the craft over the next year should help future manned missions.
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A man walks by burning garbage in downtown Port-au-Prince. The country's new president launched what was termed "reconstruction week" to rebuild. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A model poses for a weekly "drink and draw" at the 3rd Ward artist's cooperative in Bushwick in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Still a largely industrial area and recovering from years as a bastion for gangs, Bushwick's sordid history is becoming overshadowed by the influx of artists flocking to the area in search of affordability and space.
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**FILE** In this photo from May 27, 2011, made available by NASA, technicians at Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., stow solar array #2 against the body of NASA's Juno spacecraft. (Associated Press/NASA)
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Greek taxi drivers, protesting new licensing rules as part of the government's austerity measures, wave a Greek flag and chant slogans at a demonstration outside the Greek parliament in Athens on Tuesday. Some entrepreneurial Greeks, by contrast, are trying to make the best of the austerity situation. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from June 21, 2011, Shell gas worker Toke Fusi changes gas prices down at a Shell gas station in Menlo Park, Calif. (Associated Press)
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International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano inspects the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear-power plant in northeastern Japan earlier this week. Mr. Amano, on a weeklong trip to Japan, said that the nation's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant is steadily making progress to recover from the March disaster triggered by an earthquake. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A polar bear patrols the ice in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. His 2004 observation of polar bears likely drowning in conjunction with global warming has come back to haunt federal wildlife biologist Charles Monnett. (Associated Press)
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NVHomes is building 81 town homes at Fairwood in Bowie. The homes have 2,222 to 2,413 finished square feet, with base prices from $299,990 to $359,990.
