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A Wednesday, March 28, 2012, satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows a parked trailer and dish antenna (top right) near the assembly building at North Korea’s Tongchang-ri Launch Facility, on the nation’s northwest coast. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)
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(nothing) WITH STORY SLUGGED PORTUGAL HARD TIMES - Luis Sequeira Fernandes, a solicitor who runs one of Portugal's biggest bailiff offices, stands among thousands of processes files in one of the storage rooms of his firm in Alcochete, outside Lisbon, March 12 2012. Fernandes says that when his staff, acting on court orders, pursue assets to convert to cash they are increasingly finding that debtors have nothing left to confiscate. Lenders demanded debt-reducing austerity measures have helped pitch the country into a steep decline, with a second straight year of worsening recession, and record unemployment, prompting the plight of personal bankruptcy for many Portuguese families. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
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** FILE ** A skeletal figure representing the folk saint known in Mexico as "Santa Muerte" or "St. Death," sits in a vendor's stall at a market in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in April 2009. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Aung San Suu Kyi (center), Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, pauses for journalists outside a polling station on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, talks to the media as the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jessie Jackson, back, listens before the march and rally for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on Saturday, March 31, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher)
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A customer walks out of the Riverside Travel Center in Hilton, Ga., late Friday night after purchasing a lottery ticket for the Mega Millions Lottery, which reached an estimated jackpot of $645 million for Friday night's drawing. (AP Photo/Jay Hare, The Eagle)
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** FILE ** The Maltese registered cruise ship, Azamara Quest, sails through the Suez canal, Egypt, in this April 30, 2010, file photo from the Red sea toward the Mediterranean sea on its way to Athens. The fire on the Azamara Quest started late Friday, March 30, 2012, a day after the ship left Manila for Sandakan, Malaysia, and was immediately put out, said coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Algier Ricafrente. (AP Photo/File)
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** FILE ** George Zimmerman is escorted into the Sanford, Fla., police station in handcuffs the night he fatally shot Trayvon Martin. (Associated Press)
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Festival: Faberge Egg Festival Last year, parents in Colorado Springs invaded the city's annual Easter egg hunt, ruining everything and leading organizers to cancel this year's event. The reason for the interference, said one parent, was simple: "I promised my kid an Easter egg hunt and I'd want to give him an even edge." Clearly, the true meaning of Easter has gone by the wayside. Assuming you want your children to know the true meaning of Easter, get them to a church. If you're fine with maintaining the charming egg association, but want to avoid awakening your worst helicopter-parent instincts, take your children to Hillwood's Faberge Egg Family Festival. There they can paint eggs in grand Faberge style, listen to storyteller Arianna Ross divulge the egg's aristocratic history, play Russian folk games, listen to Russian folk music, and meet a Tsar Nicholas II impersonator. To April 1 at the Hillwood Museum, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. Phone: 202/686.5807. Web: http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/
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Memorial reading: Anthony Shadid Reporter Anthony Shadid survived a gunshot wound, bombing raids, and traveling across the Middle East during two tumultuous decades, only to die in Syria earlier this year of an asthma attack triggered by horse hair. "War is hell," William Tecumseh Sherman said after pillaging Atlanta. Shadid's death goes to show that it's also absurd. His death was followed shortly by the release of a book of Shadid's essays, all of which are thoughtful and authoritative. Shadid's friends and colleagues will also be in attendance to share stories. March 30 at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Phone: 202-364-1919. Web: http://www.politics-prose.com/.
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 24, 2012, photo, a detail photo shows Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's brass epaulets that he wore on formal occasions while a professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 13, 2012, photo, Teng Phung, left, Chris Lugt, center, and Jim Slingo lift a glass panel destined for a display window in the new Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
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** FILE ** In this March 17, 2012, photo, the Museum of the Confederacy, right, is surrounded by Virginia Commonwealth University buildings, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (center) attends the Arab League summit in Baghdad on Thursday, March, 29, 2012. Only 10 leaders of the 22-member bloc are in attendance. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Christopher Astacio stands in the doorway watching as his daughter Cristina, 2, recently diagnosed with a mild form of autism, plays in her bedroom on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Mark Bollinger sprays a finish on some wooden footboards for beds inside a spray booth at the Lincolnton Furniture Company in Lincolnton, N.C., on March 16, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Tyron Carroll of Annapolis (left) and Lewis Wilborn of Hyattsville buy Mega Millions tickets at an Exxon gas station at Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue Northeast on Wednesday. The jackpot has reached $476 million, the biggest in U.S. history, and could go higher before Friday's drawing. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A customer buys Mega Millions tickets at the Exxon station at the base of the Key Bridge in Georgetown on Wednesday, hoping that little piece of paper will become hundreds of millions of dollars. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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John Campbell, Distillery Manager with Laphroaig, right, smells the scotch style single malt whisky he made with two other master distillers from Scotland, Dr. Bill Lumsden, Head of Distilling and Whisky Creation at the Glenmorangie Company, left, and Andy Cant, with Diageo, center, using colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery with the help of Mount Vernon's historic distillers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Three master distillers from Scotland create a single malt whisky on colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery with the help of Mount Vernon's historic distillers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
