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This recent but undated photo provided by the Orange County, Calif., Sheriff's Department shows a walkway flanked with gravel-covered areas that had previously been grass at the Theo Lacey jail in Orange, Calif. Inmates at Orange County’s largest jail will get low-flow toilets and shower valves with timers as part of a wide-ranging effort to save water amid the state’s four-year drought. The Orange County Register reported Saturday that the conservation plan at the jail also includes tearing up 3,000 square feet of grass and replacing it with decomposed granite.(Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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This Oct. 7, 2011, photo shows the North entrance to the Exelon nuclear power plant, in Cordova Ill. (Paul Colletti/The Dispatch via AP)
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"Paperman" is just one of the cool cartoons in the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection, now on Blu-ray.
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South facade of the White House (White House image)
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NOTRE DAME 35, HOUSTON 34. After an ice storm crippled much of Dallas, a flu-addled Joe Montana battled hypothermia to lead Notre Dame to a thrilling come-from-behind victory over the University of Houston in the 1979 Cotton Bowl.
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OHIO STATE 31, MIAMI 24. Maurice Clarett and the Ohio State Buckeyes stunned the Miami Hurricanes in a 2 OT thriller in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, the BCS championship game.
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A man watches a TV news program reporting South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement, at the Seoul Railway Station, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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President Obama is promoting a platform of executive actions and private sector commitments to accelerate America's transition to cleaner sources of energy. Republicans, however, say his plan will ultimately bring Americans higher power costs. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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President Barack Obama speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Center, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Las Vegas. The President used the speech to announce a set of executive actions and private sector commitments to accelerate America’s transition to cleaner sources of energy and ways to cut energy waste. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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The Flying Tigers in China, 1942 (Associated Press)
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Bees on the Chalkboard Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Advertising outreach for a new ammunition line meant to down invasive lightweight drones. (Snake River Shooting Products)
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Aug. 24, 2015: Firefighters try to extinguish the flames in a burning house that was planned to be converted into a shelter for asylum seekers in Weissach, southern Germany. ( Friebe/SDMG/dpa via AP) ** FILE **
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Water flows through a series of retention ponds built to contain and filter out heavy metals and chemicals from the Gold King Mine chemical accident, outside Silverton, Colorado. (Associated Press)
