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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A farmhouse is protected by a small evee while another stands flooded near Yazoo City, Miss. For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall.
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Cars are stranded on a dry strip of roadway north of Vicksburg, Miss., on Thursday. Thousands have been displaced by the floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Mississippi and Louisiana.
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ANDREW S. GERACI / THE WASHINGTON TIMES Pilot Greg Poe, an aerial acrobatic pilot, takes off from Harry P. Davis Field in Manassas, Va., in his ethanol-powered aircraft.
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K.Hovnanian Homes is building single-family homes at Four Seasons at New Kent Vineyards in New Kent County, Va. The Berry Hill model has 2,320 square feet and is priced from $274,990.
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Design improvements in CFL and LED lights have led to a greater selection of the energy-efficient lights than was available just a few years ago.
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Although they are more expensive than halogen under-cabinet lighting, LED lights , which are cool to the touch, won't heat up the underside of kitchen cabinets.
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With the coming phase-out of incandescent bulbs, innovations in CFL and LED lighting are getting notice.
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This photo from May 6, 2011, shows the reactor buildings of Unit 1 (left) and 2 at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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Farmers work as floodwaters from the Mississippi River creep across their fields Tuesday in Natchez, Miss. The Coast Guard said it closed the river at the port in Natchez because barge traffic could increase pressure on levees already burdened by heavy river flow. (Associated Press)
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has started winning public support while trying to guide the nation through its post-tsunami crisis. (Associated Press)
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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. The space shuttle Endeavour began a 14-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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Spectators watch the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. The space shuttle Endeavour began a 14-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
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The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. The space shuttle Endeavour began a 14-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Double-murderer Jens Soering likely would have served two years, rather than life in prison, if sent to his native Germany. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Scott P. Brown has been stung by a gaffe involving photos that he mistakenly said showed Osama bin Laden's body and rocked by a $1 million ad blitz attacking his environmental record. "There are some cracks showing now," said John Walsh, Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS/KYODO NEWS A villager pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit to her house located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, last Tuesday.
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A Japanese woman pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit — her first since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami — to her home in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. About 100 evacuees were allowed into the exclusion zone around the troubled nuclear plant for an hour's visit to gather belongings.
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Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., on Saturday, May 14, 2011. A steel, 10-ton floodgate was raised for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the river, away from heavily populated areas downstream. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (right) speaks with workers Thursday while viewing levee construction work with Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, in Krotz Springs, La., during a tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Health may be the biggest impediment as Tiger Woods, with 14 major championships, chases Jack Nicklaus' record of 18. Woods' most recent victory in a major was the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
