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An entire suburb is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Emergency sirens blared across Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into an empty downtown, swamping neighborhoods in what may be Brisbane's worst flooding in 100 years. (AP Photo)
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A vehicle is swept away in floodwaters in South East Queensland, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Deadly floodwaters flowed onto the streets in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland since drenching rains that began in November sent swollen rivers spilling over their banks, inundating an area larger than France and Germany combined. (AP Photo)
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A house is surrounded by flood water near Grafton, in Australia's New South Wales state, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, Brisbane, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers. (AP Photo/Wolter Peeters, Pool)
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An entire small industry is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Emergency sirens blared across Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into an empty downtown, swamping neighborhoods in what may be Brisbane's worst flooding in 100 years. (AP Photo)
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A rescue helicopter flies over a flooded area in South East Queensland, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Deadly floodwaters flowed onto the streets in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland since drenching rains that began in November sent swollen rivers spilling over their banks, inundating an area larger than France and Germany combined. (AP Photo)
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Australia's New South Wales state Premier Kristina Keneally looks at flooded homes at Lawrence, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, Brisbane, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers. (AP Photo/Wolter Peeters, Pool)
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A main road is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Emergency sirens blared across Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into an empty downtown, swamping neighborhoods in what may be Brisbane's worst flooding in 100 years. (AP Photo)
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An entire suburb is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Deadly floodwaters that have cut a swath across northeastern Australia flowed onto the streets of the nation's third-largest city, forcing people to flee suburbs and skyscrapers. (AP Photo)
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The remains of a floating restaurant called Drift Cafe is swept down the Brisbane River Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, as floodwaters surge through Brisbane, Australia. At least 22 people have died and more than 40 are missing across Australia's northeastern state of Queensland since drenching rains that began in November sent swollen rivers spilling over their banks, flooding an area larger than France and Germany combined. (AP Photo/Ken Merrin)
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The statue of Queensland's famous former Rugby League star Wally Lewis is fitted out with water wings, scuba mask and snorkel is seen outside the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane Australia, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011, The stadium was flooded Wednesday as the rising Brisbane River hit the inner-city. (AP Photo/Brad Marsellos)
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An entire suburb is submerged outside Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Emergency sirens blared across Australia's third-largest city Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into an empty downtown, swamping neighborhoods in what may be Brisbane's worst flooding in 100 years. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** In this July 2, 2010, photo provided by Discovery Communications, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sits next husband Todd's boat in Dillingham, Alaska, as part of a documentary for the TLC channel called "Sarah Palin's Alaska." (AP Photo/Discovery Communications, Gilles Mingasson, File)
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Mirrors direct the sun's rays for large solar thermal power plants at the Rotem Industrial Complex in southern Israel in 2008. The nation is a leader in clean technology. (Associated Press)
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Tom Stephens, vice chairman of global product operations at General Motors Co., shows off the North American Car of the Year award won by the 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car during the Detroit auto show. (Bloomberg)
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Debris fills a garage in Southeast Washington where lobbyist Ashley Turton, the wife of White House adviser Dan Turton, was found dead inside a burning car on Monday, Jan. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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People cling to railings and metal fences on a flooded street in Toowoomba, Australia, during a flash flood Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Flash floods swept through the northeastern Australian community killing one woman, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades. (AP Photo/ABC)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2011 file picture people pass a market stall with eggs at a farmers market in Berlin. German authorities have allowed most of the 4,700 farms that were closed after dioxin-contaminated livestock feed was found to reopen, an agriculture ministry spokesman said Monday Jan. 10, 2011. "The situation has eased ... but there can't be an all-clear yet," Holger Eichele said, adding that 1,635 farms were still closed as of Monday. Almost 500 dairy farms are also again being allowed to sell their products, and Slovakia has decided against banning German farm products, Eichele said. South Korea last week decided to ban the sale of some German farm products, and supermarkets in Britain withdrew quiches and cakes made with German eggs from their shelves. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2011 file photo, a worker with U.S. Environmental Services, a private contractor, picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark. where more than 3,000 dead black birds fell from the sky on New Year's Eve. Some saw the event and other recent wildlife die-offs as real signs as something sinister, either biblical or environmental. The reality, say biologists, is that they happen all the time. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins, File)
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Turkey hens breeder Helge Vosteen stands in his hen house in Neerstedt near Oldenburg northern Germany on Jan. 6, 2011, after it was precautionary closed. German authorities have stopped more than 4,700 farms from selling their meat and eggs as a precautionary measure against a growing scandal over animal feed contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals that is also affecting exports. (AP Photo/Dapd/David Hecker)
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Mid-Atlantic Builders is building 226 single-family homes on 1-acre sites at Woodmore North in Bowie. The homes have 3,032 to 3,859 finished square feet, with base prices from $498,990 to $566,990.
