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People are evacuated from a health clinic in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. A powerful earthquake collapsed buildings at the height of a busy workday Tuesday, killing and trapping dozens in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald)
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A man rides his bicycle on a damaged road in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. A powerful earthquake collapsed buildings at the height of a busy workday killing and trapping dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/NZPA/Ashburton Guardian, Kirsty Graham)
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A group of people travel with Glacier Explorers to see one of the many icebergs that caved into Tasman Lake as a result of the 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The quake hit at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/NZPA, Denis Callesen)
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Bodies are covered after an earthquake rocked Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake hit at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing dozens people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Wethey)
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People look on as security guards clean up personal belongings and debris following a deadly stampede at Modibo Keita Stadium in Bamako, Mali, Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. At least 36 people were killed in the stampede Monday when a crowd surged against a metal barrier after a Muslim ceremony, Mali's minister of interior security and civil protection said. (AP Photo/Martin Vogl)
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People walk past a church in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was destroyed after an earthquake struck Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake collapsed buildings and is sending rescuers scrambling to help trapped people amid reports of multiple deaths. (AP Photo/NZPA, Pam Johnson)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin covers her heart during the national anthem as she attends a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin covers her heart during the national anthem as she attends a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin smiles as she is introduced during a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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The Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project in Europe aims to develop a wireless system that will allow cars on a public highway or motorway to join in a platoon, or semi-autonomous "road train" of vehicles.
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The Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE) project in Europe aims to develop a wireless system that will allow cars on a public highway or motorway to join in a platoon, or semi-autonomous "road train" of vehicles.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin smiles as she is introduced at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows mature Atlantic tomcod at a NOAA rearing facility in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Most people think of evolution occurring gradually over thousands of years, but apparently no one told the Atlantic Tomcod. Over the last half-century or so the Hudson River fish has evolved to become resistant to toxic PCB that polluted the river, researchers reported Thursday. (AP Photo/Science)
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In this CD cover image released by Lost Highway Records, the latest release by Hayes Carll, "KMAG YOYO" is shown. (AP Photo/Lost Highway)
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** FILE ** Cotton grows in a field near Keo, Ark., in October 2008 before being harvested. Prices for commodities such cotton, oil, corn and wheat have soared in recent months, squeezing profit margins at many companies and forcing others to pass on the higher costs to retailers. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows an American Black Bear. Hibernating bears set their energy demands to low, but they don't chill out very much, according to new research. (AP Photo/Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
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Providence of Brookfield Homes is offering three collections of single-family homes at Heritage Shores. They are priced from $234,990 to $387,990 and have 1,297 to 2,807 square feet.
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The Churchill Group is building three-bedroom town homes at the Vistas in Gaithersburg, ranging in price from $582,990 to $637,990 with 2,380 to 2,466 finished square feet. Each home will have two full baths and two half baths.
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Haiti's presidential candidate Michel Martelly, right, and Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean talk after a press conference announcing Jean's support on Martelly's run for the presidency in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2000 file photo, an inspector wades through the checkout aisles of a supermarket in Uckfield, south of London, as the local river burst its bank and caused the town to flood, after several days of heavy rain and a night of severe storms. Two studies in the journal Nature link global warming to extreme rainstorms and snowfalls and find these weather events are getting substantially worse. One study found that the strongest precipitation events were 7 percent wetter in the 1990s than they were in the 1950s. The other looked at costly flooding in England and Wales in the fall of 2000 and found that global warming more than doubled the likelihood of that flood occurring. Both studies used computer modeling. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
