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In this September 2016 photo, Clarence Laub poses on his farm in Elgin, N.D. Laub said the experimental hemp he grew on his farm was more interesting than other crops and had a surprisingly good yield, considering some planting difficulties. He's one of five growers who participated in an experimental program through the state Agriculture Department. (Lauren Donovan/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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In this Sept. 23, 2016 photo, Brett Foster, a junior studying forestry at Michigan State University, stands next to the base of a 350-year-old tree felled in July 2016, in East Lansing, Mich. The remains of the tree will likely be repurposed as part of the MSU Shadows program. (RJ Wolcott /Lansing State Journal via AP)
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In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, the remains of a more than 3 century-old tree located on Michigan State University's campus are shown, in East Lansing, Mich. The tree stood tall nearly 200 years before the university welcomed its first students. (RJ Wolcott /Lansing State Journal via AP)
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Terry Zoller, the bridge construction manager for St. Croix Crossing project, checks the progress of the bridge being built over the St. Croix River in Stillwater, Minn. on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Construction of the most expensive highway project in Minnesota’s history began in 2013. The new four-lane bridge will replace the aging Stillwater Lift Bridge as the main Minnesota-Wisconsin crossing north of Interstate 94. (Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP)
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Water continues to flow into a large sinkhole on the Mosaic Co. property shown in this aerial photo Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Mulberry, Fla. Neighbors of the huge sinkhole sending cascades of contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste into Florida's main drinking-water aquifer are fearful and fuming that it took weeks for them to be notified about the disaster. Many are still waiting anxiously for results from tests for radiation and toxic chemicals in their well water. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Water continues to flow into a large sinkhole on the Mosaic Co. property shown in this aerial photo Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, in Mulberry, Fla. Neighbors of the huge sinkhole sending cascades of contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste into Florida's main drinking-water aquifer are fearful and fuming that it took weeks for them to be notified about the disaster. Many are still waiting anxiously for results from tests for radiation and toxic chemicals in their well water. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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FILE - This aerial Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, file photo shows a sinkhole in Mulberry, Fla., that opened up underneath a gypsum stack at a Mosaic phosphate fertilizer plant. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an emergency rule requiring public notification of pollution events within 24 hours, a move that comes after it took weeks to notify local residents about the fertilizer plant that leaked millions of gallons of contaminated water into a major aquifer, according to a news release Monday, Sept. 26. (Jim Damaske/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)
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Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike looks over a report during an expert panel at the Tokyo Metropolitan government office in Tokyo Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. The panel, launched by Koike raised concerns about ever-growing unofficial cost estimates and burden on the city and its taxpayers, warned that total cost for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic could exceed 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) unless they take drastic cost-cutting measures. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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FILE - This July 23, 2014 file photo shows the Milky Way galaxy on a moonless night from a cattle pasture in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. Our solar system lies at the edge of a structure called the Local Arm or the Orion Spur, and according to a paper released Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, researchers calculated that it stretches more than 20,000 light-years long, maybe about four times what scientists had thought before. (Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
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Troy Police and the Department of Environmental Conservation are investigating the stealing of a National Grid vehicle and its discovery in the water at Hudson River at Lock 8 on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, in Troy, N.Y. State police divers have recovered a body from the Hudson River in upstate New York where a utility company dump truck plunged into the water after a police pursuit. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union via AP)
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Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks to the Restore Louisiana Task Force, a flood recovery planning group he created, during its first meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, file photo, volcanic material from the eruption of Mount Barujari is seen from Bayan, Lombok Island, Indonesia. The volcano erupted without warning on Tuesday afternoon, delaying flights from airports on the islands of Lombok and Bali. (AP Photo/Denda Wiyana Putri)
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In this Sept. 11, 2016 photo, members of Immanuel Lutheran Church of Colfax, Ill., and Trinity Lutheran Church of Fairbury, Ill., join together to dig, clean and sort potatoes at a farm in rural Colfax, Ill. Church members from both congregations started the Tater Tot Project last year to teach children about serving others by helping them plant and harvest potatoes to distribute to area food pantries.(Lori Ann Cook-Neisler/The Pantagraph via AP)
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An attorney representing plaintiffs challenging the District ban on stun guns says residents should have nonlethal protection options. (Associated Press)
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Washington Capitals center Lars Eller (20), of Denmark, skates with the puck during the third period of an NHL preseason hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in Washington. The Hurricanes won 2-1 in overtime. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 27, 2016, the Loma Fire rages on the Santa Cruz Mountains summit beyond the Giant Dipper Roller Coaster in Santa Cruz, Calif. More California residents were ordered from their homes Tuesday as a growing wildfire threatened remote communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The blaze in a rugged area about 30 miles south of San Jose destroyed one home and charred more than 1.5 square miles of dry brush and timber, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (Shmuel Thaler /The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2015, file photo, Wake Forest's John Wolford, left, scrambles away from Louisville's Trevon Young, right, in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C. There’s a surprise team joining No. 3 Louisville and No. 5 Clemson in the three-way tie atop the ACC's Atlantic Division, Wake Forest. Unranked but still undefeated, the Demon Deacons (4-0) are off to their best start in a decade. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), will study ways to make classrooms LGBT-friendly with a $150,000 grant from the federal government. (Facebook, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
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In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, Mike Williams, center, an electrician and survivor on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, poses with Peter Berg, left, director of the film "Deepwater Horizon," and cast member Mark Wahlberg at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. Berg's film is not about the environmental disaster of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, nor an exploration of BP's responsibility for the accident. Instead, it's squarely focused on oil rig workers and the 11 who died in the explosion. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
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This photo provided by FDNY shows New York City firefighter Michael Fahy, who was killed in a house explosion Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, in the Bronx borough of New York. Authorities said they were responding to a report of a gas leak when the residence exploded and Fahy was struck by debris. (FDNY via AP)
