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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Monday, Sept. 06, 2010, at 10:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds associated with Tropical Storm Hermine spinning in the western Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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Jesse Lebovics, longtime caretaker of the 1892 USS Olympia, the oldest steel warship still afloat, illuminates a coal bunker to show multiple repairs at and below the waterline. The museum ship, in the Delaware River, needs $1 million to survive. (Associated Press)
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An agouti rodent eats around roots and trees in Brownsberg Nature Park, about 80 miles south of Paramaribo, Suriname. Miners are tearing up trees, poisoning creeks with mercury and, in some places, erecting makeshift jungle towns with shops, prostitutes and churches. In their wake is a wasteland, said a regional representative of the World Wildlife Fund. (Associated Press)
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A miner sprays water using a hydraulic mining system at an open gold-mine pit near the small town of Nieuw Koffiekamp on the edge of the Suriname's rain forest. Thanks to record gold prices, hundreds of small-scale mining operations are proliferating along the northeastern shoulder of South America, tearing up trees and poisoning creeks with mercury. (Associated Press)
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A sluice box containing mercury, used in the filtration process, operates at a gold mine near Nieuw Koffiekamp. The World Wildlife Fund estimates the small-scale mining is responsible for some 20 tons of mercury entering the environment and posing a risk to people through fish consumption. (Associated Press)
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A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 13 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The area was hit on Saturday by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads, twisted rail lines and ripped a new 11-foot-wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Pan-American Highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo)
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A young skateboarder takes advantage of a warped road in Paiapoi, 12 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The Christchurch area was struck on Saturday by a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads, twisted rail lines and ripped a new 11-foot-wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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In this Aug. 30, 2010 photo, Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, director of the Darrin Freshwater Institute, holds samples of Asian clams found in Lake George, in Bolton Landing, N.Y. She leads a team of scientists studying invasive Asian clams in Lake George. Scientists consider the clams arrival a stroke of bad luck that could cause ecological and economic harm. They hope to smother the rapidly reproducing mollusks before they spread. (AP Photo/Mary Esch)
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People stand outside a building damaged by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in central Christchurch, New Zealand, early Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries, but looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander)
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In this image from video, a car lies under fallen rubble in Christchurch, New Zealand after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday, Sept 4, 2010. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries, but looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. The quake, which hit 19 miles (30 kilometers) west of the southern city of Christchurch, shook a wide area. (AP Photo/ TVNZ)
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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Earl taken at 3:15 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. National Weather Service meterologist Jeremy Schulz said early Friday morning that rain bands stretched about 140 miles inland in North Carolina and up to the southern tip of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. Sustained winds of about 30 mph were whipping the North Carolina coast. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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A sign reads in Greek "Smoking room" as employees smoke at a state-run bank in central Athens, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Greece will implement a comprehensive ban on all indoor public places starting Wednesday, Sept. 1. Greece has among the highest smoking rates among developing countries around the world. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis )
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Associated Press Boats are seen spraying water on an oil-and-gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, on Thursday. All 13 crew members, wearing protective "Gumby suits," were rescued.
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Associated Press Cory Freeman watches two stranded goats near Roundup, Mont., on Wednesday. The goats were rescued from the railroad bridge after nearly two days and were in good condition.
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Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Clouds from the outer bands of Hurricane Earl appear over the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise in Nags Head, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, as Earl approaches the East Coast. The hurricane, with winds swirling at around 145 mph, continued to barrel toward the Eastern Seaboard, and forecasters were trying to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest winds and heaviest surge would get to North Carolina's fragile chain of barrier islands. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 50 single-family homes on half-acre sites at North Ridge in Culpeper. The homes have 2,169 to 2,766 finished square feet, with base prices from $234,990 to $264,990.
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Miller and Smith is building 36 town homes at Maple Lawn in Fulton. The homes have 2,978 to 3,279 finished square feet, with base prices from $511,990 to $551,990.
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Anti-dolphin hunt activist Ric O' Barry, center, stands outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo after handing out a scroll of petition against dolphin hunt to the Japanese government via the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
