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In this small-group discussion in Chicheley, England, scientists discuss how the Earth's atmosphere can be manipulated into combating global warming. Four dozen experts from around the world gathered for three days in late March to talk about "geoengineering." (Associated Press)
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"If we don't understand the implications, and we reach a crisis point and deploy geoengineering with only a modicum of information, we really will be playing Russian roulette," says Steven Hamburg, a U.S. Environmental Defense Fund scientist. (Associated Press)
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Kizuki Ishimori, 27, clears debris from his family's home in Higashi-Matsushima. After the March 11 tsunami devastated his hometown, Mr. Ishimori said he might have to move south to find work. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)
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Rebecca Hagelin
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** FILE ** Rescuers worked throughout the early morning hours of Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullen, Idaho, to clear debris from a collapsed tunnel in search of a miner missing more than a mile underground since Friday, officials said. The miner's brother, who also was working in the mine, was able to escape. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata bows at the end of a news conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Tepco, the operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan, announced a plan that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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Patrick Woods, a freshman at Pine Forest High School in Fayetteville, N.C., picks up an American flag from the remains of structures on the softball field at the school on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Michael Conti)
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A car drives through a partially flooded street, Friday, April 15, 2011, in Decatur, Ala. Waves of strong storms left damage across a wide area of Alabama on Friday, slamming into homes and businesses and forcing promoters to cancel the first race of a busy weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)
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In this letter, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell announces his veto of the state's redistricting plan.
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Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant take a seat as they meet officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, at its headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
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A statue of Buddha is seen in the city cemetery in the area devastated by the Match 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on April 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Jennifer Olonia refuses to leave the area near the bloated Des Lacs River in Burlington, N.D., despite warnings that a dam is in danger of breaching from floodwaters." She and her husband are "doing what we got to do," she said Thursday. (Associated Press)
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When Missouri voters approved a law in November to regulate the state's lucrative dog-breeding industry, breeders — such as Hubert Lavy, who runs Tenderheart Kennels in Silex, Mo. — argued that it would devastate their businesses. With lawmakers poised to repeal many of the restrictions, animal advocates pledge to get it back on the ballot next year. (Associated Press)
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Winchester Homes is building three- and four-bedroom homes at the Reserve at Black Rock in Darnestown. The homes are priced from $994,900 to $1,363,900.
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The center-island kitchen in the Belmont model has 42-inch cabinets, granite counters and upgraded appliances.
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Ryland Homes is building single-family homes at Reid's Prospect in Woodbridge. The homes are base-priced from $404,990 to $459,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The Continuing Resolution removes the gray wolf of the Northern Rocky Mountains from the endangered species list and allows for state management, which would include managed hunts for the wolves.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS More than six of every 10 Americans have cut back on other expenses and reduced their driving as a result of the rising gas prices caused by tumult in North Africa and the Middle East. President Obama's approval rating has taken a hit.
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Thousands of Syrian women and children holding white flags and olive branches blocked a main coastal highway in Banias, Syria, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, to demand that authorities release those detained in a crackdown on opponents of the Assad regime, witnesses said. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010, file photo Dave Redell, a bat ecologist with the state Department of Natural Resources, stands near the steel bat cupola that covers the opening to the Neda mine near Horicon, Wis. Bats save American farmers at least $3.7 billion a year in pest-control costs by eating insects that feed on crops, a benefit that could be in jeopardy as a disease that has killed more than a million bats in the Northeast spreads to the Midwest. (AP Photo/The Capital Times, Michelle Stocker, File)
