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In this undated photo, chunks of chemically processed rare earths are shown in Beijing. China's recent halt of exotic metal shipments to Japan amid a diplomatic spat has reverberated throughout the world's high-tech manufacturing hubs _ now on heightened alert to the risks of relying on one country for materials that do everything from helping hybrid engines run to creating the color red in televisions. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Ted Turner arrives at the Environmental Media Awards at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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In this photo taken Sept. 30, 2010, Monica Caraffa poses for a photograph with signs in front of her home opposing Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, in Philadelphia. Despite his ascendancy to starting quarterback and several winning performances in that role, Vick has not won over many of the animal-loving Eagles fans who were the most incensed when he was signed last year. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo supplied by Halls, Gericke and Hofmeyr (HGH) Pharmaceuticals and taken on Sept. 18, 2009 shows crops of the indigenous plant, sceletium tortuosum, being tended to in the Karoo in South Africa. The plant, that the San people, (sometimes called bushmen) have chewed to reduce stress, relieve hunger, sedate and elevate moods is to be marketed internationally. (AP Photo/Nigel Gericke HGH Pahrmaceuticals - HO)
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Rescuers search for victims of a train crash near a station in Petarukan in Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The early morning train crash in central Indonesia killed dozens of people and injured another dozens, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo)
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A vehicle is stranded on a flooded road in Guilderland, N.Y., Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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People and their dogs stand before floodwaters from the Schuylkill River that submerged a section of Kelly Drive in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A snapped tree lies on top a home on Buffalo Avenue in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Much of Virginia remains under flash flood warnings after a storm dumped up to 7 inches of rain, closing roads and knocking out power for thousands of residents. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Preston Gannaway)
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This undated handout artist rendering provided by Lynette Cook, National Science Foundation, shows a new planet, right. Astronomers have found a planet that is in the Goldilocks zone _ just right for life. Not too hot, not too cold. Not too far from its sun, not too close. And it is near Earth _ relatively speaking, at 120 trillion miles. It also makes scientists think that these examples of habitable planets are far more common than they thought. (AP Photo/Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)
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**FILE** In this photo from Sept. 15, 2010, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appears as the featured speaker at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs' annual Liberty Gala at the Convention Center in Tulsa, Okla. (Associated Press)
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The family room is lined with five Palladian windows. The gas fireplace has a remote and a niche above for a television.
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The Ballston model at Station View has three finished levels, including a lower-level recreation room, and an open living and dining room with a center-island kitchen and breakfast area on the main level.
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M/I Homes is building 47 town homes on 2,178-square-foot sites at Station View in Ashburn. The three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath Ballston model homes have approximately 2,350 finished square feet and are base-priced from the upper $300,000s.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Emergency vehicles can be seen at the top left as traffic backs up at the scene of a commuter bus crash on Interstate 270, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, in Bethesda, Md.
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A rescue worker uses a zip-line to cross a civilian through an overflowed river in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Workers remove mud from a house in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Cars are buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Men inspect a vehicle buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Overall view of the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010, after a landslide occurred. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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People remove mud from a street after a landslide in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
