Environment

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Rob Spillman uses a chain saw to cut branches from a fallen tree in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. Joseph Van Eken, right, assists in removing the branches. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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A man steps through fallen branches in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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A South Korean Marine jumps into the sea during the 60th Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration Ceremony, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 at sea near Incheon, the coastal city where United Nations Forces led by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur landed in September, 1950 just months after North Korea invaded the South. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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Toll Brothers is building 104 attached carriage-style homes at Tollgate Village in Bel Air. The homes have approximately 2,085 to 2,230 finished square feet, with base prices from $429,995 to $466,995.

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The Villandry model at Creighton Farms has 4,850 finished square feet and is base-priced at $1,431,750, without the land. Open and wooded lots are available for $644,000 to $798,000.

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Van Metre Homes is building 100 condominiums at Lansdowne Town Center in Leesburg. The homes have 1,407 to 1,619 finished square feet, with base prices from $249,990 to $269,990.

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Van Metre Homes' Soho model at Lansdowne Town Center in Leesburg has a center-island kitchen with 42-inch maple cabinets and granite counters. It has 1,407 square feet and is priced from $249,990.

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Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to North Korea, speaks to reporters in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Mr. Bosworth is in China for talks with Chinese officials on restarting stalled negotiations on North Korea's nuclear disarmament. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

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A classified 1969 map produced by the People's Republic of China official map authority lists the "Senkaku Islands" as Japanese territory, underming Beijing's more recent claims that the islands it calls the Daiyoutai Islands are Chinese territory. The map bolsters Tokyo's claims to the sovereignty.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Tuesday looks over a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth carousel, which is used to assist Deepwater Horizon oil spill response efforts by capturing subsurface water samples on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana.

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In this Aug. 13, 2010, photo, Duke Energy linesmen work on power lines in Charlotte, N.C. Output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities edged up 0.2 percent last month, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. It rose 0.6 percent in July. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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This Sept. 7, 2010 picture provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows walruses on the barrier island beaches near Point Lay, Alaska. Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in northwest Alaska because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted. Federal scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)

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Kevin Feinstein shows a horsetail plant while leading a foraging walk in Oakland, Calif. Foodies and novelty chefs are learning to identify, harvest and prepare edibles that grow in the wild as a way to connect with their environment. (Associated Press)

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This Monday Sept. 13, 2010, satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Igor, left, east of the Northern Leeward Islands and Tropical Storm Julia, right, south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Igor threatened to become a Category 5 storm Monday as it churned far out over the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/NOAA)

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This undated handout photo provided by Samantha Joye, UGA Department of Marine Sciences, shows a layer of oil on a sediment core. Researchers are finding oil dripping "all over the place" on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, some as much as two inches thick. A University of Georgia scientific cruise is collecting at least ten instances of what appears to be fresh oil on the sea floor emanating out from the site of BP oil rig disaster. (AP Photo/Samantha Joye)

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A helicopter flies over the Flatiron fire burning northwest of Loveland, Colo., Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Fire officials are telling residents near Flatiron Reservoir and Carter Lake to leave their homes and evacuate to Loveland in northern Colorado because of a 30-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/The Coloradoan, Dawn Madura)

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Smoke raises in the air from a wildland fire as seen from Highway 257 near the town of Johnstown, Colo., Sunday Sept. 12, 2010. Fire officials are telling residents near Flatiron Reservoir and Carter Lake to leave their homes and evacuate to Loveland in northern Colorado because of a 30-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/The Greeley Tribune, Jim Rydbom)

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** FILE ** Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels gestures as he addresses the media at a media conference in Brussels on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

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Pro-Taiwan activist Huang Hsi-lin (left) waves a flag as he and another activists set off to a group of disputed East China Sea islands -- called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyutai in Chinese -- from the Yehliu fishing port in northeastern Taiwan on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The activists set out to promote Taiwan's claim to the disputed islands at the center of a row between China and Japan, which also claim the islands. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada must try to stop the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project or risk not being re-elected. (Associated Press)