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Rescue workers and work crews toil at the western edge of the mudslide where it covers Highway 530 Wednesday morning, March 26, 2013, east of Oso, Wash. Search crews using dogs, bulldozers and their bare hands kept slogging through the mess of broken wood and mud. (AP Photo/The Herald, Mark Mulligan) Photo taken 20140326
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The Dock Street Brewing Co. has created the Dock Street Walker for diehard zombie fans, which is brewed using wheat, oats, flaked barley, organic cranberries and smoked goat brains. (Dock Street Brewing Co. via Instagram)
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An associate carries a box of Snickers candy as production begins at the Mars Chocolate North America Topeka Plant near Topeka, Kan., Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Visitors leave the Mars Chocolate North America Topeka Plant near Topeka, Kan., Thursday, March 27, 2014. Visitors attended the plant's grand opening celebration. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, left, Victoria Mars and Debra Sandler, right, push a button that starts production at the Mars Chocolate North America Topeka Plant near Topeka, Kan., Thursday, March 27, 2014. Victoria Mars is the Chairman of the Board, Mars Inc., and Sandler is president of Mars Chocolate North America. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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In this Saturday, Feb, 22. 2014 photo released by National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), displaced people receive relief aid, in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Living in fear and hunger, some quarter million Nigerians forced from their homes this year by an Islamic uprising are surviving in the bush, overcrowded with relatives and friends or in squalid camps where 500 share one latrine, a new report says. The National Emergency Management Agency describes dire conditions for people already traumatized by the loss of loved ones, belongings, homes and livelihoods in northeast Nigeria. In all, more than 3 million people — a third of the population — are suffering from the insurgency that has killed thousands and driven tens of thousands of farmers from their land, the agency said in the first report on the humanitarian plight created by the insurgency in Nigeria. It was made available to The Associated Press on Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/ NEMA)
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This aerial photo taken at Duke Energy’s Cape Fear Plant on March 10, 2014, by the environmental group WaterKeeper Alliance shows a large crack in the earthen dam holding back millions of tons of toxic coal ash and contaminated waste water. North Carolina regulators inspected the site twice in the following days, but now concede they failed to notice the crack clearly marked with metal stakes and bright orange streamers. State officials say they knew nothing of the potential hazard until Duke reported the crack on March 20, after the company was cited for illegally pumping 61 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Cape Fear River. The crack has since been repaired. (AP Photo/WaterKeeper Alliance, Rick Dove)
