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Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol adjusts her mother's hair at a cholera treatment center in Haiti. Caption writers said Mrs. Palin was getting "her hair done." (Associated Press)
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Icicles cling to a sign outside a strawberry field Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 in Springhead, Fla. Farmers spray a fine mist of water on their crops to help protect the fruit from the sub-freezing temperatures. Temperatures in central Florida dipped into the 20's. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Icicles cover an ornamental flower at sunrise Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 in Springhead, Fla. Farmers spray a fine mist of water on their crops to help protect the fruit from the sub-freezing temperatures. Temperatures in central Florida dipped into the 20's. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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A rainbow forms as a sprinkler sprays water on ornamental plants Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 in Plant City, Fla. Farmers spray water on their crops to help protect the fruit from the sub-freezing temperatures. Temperatures in central Florida dipped into the 20's. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Crops are inspected at Frank Oakes Organic Farm in Collier County, Fla., Dec. 14, 2010 after a freeze overnight damaged crops. Most heavily hit were the strawberries. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News,Greg Kahn)
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Crops are inspected at Frank Oakes Organic Farm in Collier County, Fla., Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 after a freeze overnight damaged crops. Most heavily hit were the strawberries. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News,Greg Kahn)
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Icicles form a pattern on a barbwire fence Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 in Plant City, Fla. Farmers spray a fine mist of water on their crops to help protect the fruit from the sub-freezing temperatures. Temperatures in central Florida dipped into the 20's. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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FILE - This undated file artist's rendering shows one of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft. NASA says the long-running Voyager 1 spacecraft hurtling toward the edge of the solar system has reached another milestone. Since 2004, the unmanned probe has been exploring a region of space where the solar wind slows abruptly and crashes into the thin gas between stars. NASA said Monday that recent readings show the solar wind has slowed to zero, meaning the spacecraft is getting ever closer to the solar system's edge. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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In this image from video, showing emergency services as they attend the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm on Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. Two separate explosions shook the busy shopping area in central Stockholm on Saturday. This car exploded and another unexplained explosion happened shortly after leaving one person dead, rescue officials said. (AP photo/TV4)
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**FILE** In this photo from May 10, 2007, a general view of empty houses in the town of Pripyat are seen, with the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the background. (Associated Press)
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A boy walks past a brick factory on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. After two decades of unbridled development, India is now the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, with rivers the World Bank has described as fetid sewers and cities listed among the world's most polluted. India's environment Minister Jairam Ramesh suggested this week that India might commit to cutting emissions, saying all developing countries should consider doing so. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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This image provided by NASA, taken Oct. 6, 2004, by the Cassini Saturn Probe, shows the planet Saturn and its rings. One of the most evocative mysteries of the solar system, where Saturn got its stunning rings, may actually be a case of cosmic murder with an unnamed moon of Saturn, that disappeared about 4.5 billion years ago, as the potential victim. Suspicion has fallen on a disk of hydrogen gas, that surrounded Saturn when its dozens of moons were forming, but has now fled the scene. And the cause of death? A possible forced plunge into Saturn. (AP Photo/NASA)
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This image from video shows emergency services as they attend the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. Two separate explosions shook the busy shopping area in central Stockholm on Saturday. This car exploded and another unexplained explosion happened shortly after leaving one person dead, rescue officials said. (AP photo/TV4)
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Greenpeace activists form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2010 file photo, Mayan Indian Pedro Chuc May collects sap from a tree known as a gum tree to produce natural chewing gum in Betania, Mexico. A U.N. program, under debate at the climate change conference in Cancun, could help May and millions of others who live in forests earn more while slowing the deforestation that accounts for one-fifth of the global carbon dioxide emissions blamed for warming the planet. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh delivers a speech during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Wednesday Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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South Korean marines ride on the back of a truck on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is pushing the idea of Korean unification, even as tensions remain high two weeks after the North shelled a South Korean island, killing four and setting the region on edge. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Ju-sung)
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Paper decorations hang from the vandalized Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree which has been hacked down and reduced to just a stump in Glastonbury western England Friday Dec. 10, 2010. The tree, a major Christian landmark in England, was vandalized just weeks before Christmas Day. The tree is said to be linked to the arrival of Saint Joseph of Arimathea in England after the crucifixion of Jesus. It draws hundreds of visitors each year.
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NV Homes is building 24 single-family homes on sites of 3 to 6 acres at Maple Woods in Highland. The homes have approximately 2,708 to 4,433 finished square feet, with base prices from $699,990 to $819,990.
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Winchester Homes is building Adirondack- and Craftsman-style homes at Shenandoah at Lake Frederick priced from $299,900 to $379,900. The Shadwell model has 2,288 square feet and is priced from $349,900.
