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Blossom buds are forming on the Japanese cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, and peak bloom is forecast for the last week of March. Above, goodwill ambassadors gather for a news conference on plans for this year's National Cherry Blossom Festival, a centennial celebration to begin March 20 and run five weeks. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Special to The Washington Times)
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Blossom buds are forming on the Japanese cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, and peak bloom is forecast for the last week of March. Above, goodwill ambassadors gather for a news conference on plans for this year's National Cherry Blossom Festival, a centennial celebration to begin March 20 and run five weeks. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Special to The Washington Times)
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A Spanish flag is waved from a plane carrying some of the 17 tons of silver and gold coins scooped up from a Spanish warship, Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, that sank during a 1804 gunbattle, after its arrival at the Torrejon De Ardoz military air base, near Madrid, on Saturday Feb. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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A member of the Culture Ministry technical crew displays two of the 594,000 coins and other artifacts found in the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships in the Atlantic while sailing back from South America in 1804, in a warehouse in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Spain's Culture Ministry, HO)
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A young drug addict talks to a Dost Foundation psychologist in Peshawar, Pakistan. Afghanistan's flourishing opium trade has resulted in 4 million addicts in Pakistan, many of them children who end up being exploited by Taliban extremists. (Associated Press)
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Patty Ferrell of Herod, Ill., is overcome with emotion after finding the nursing scrubs that belonged to her daughter, Jaylynn Ferrell, 22, who was killed in a tornado that struck Harrisburg, Ill., on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/The State Journal-Register, Justin L. Fowler)
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Miami Marlins' Mike Stanton takes batting practice during a spring training workout Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Washington Nationals catcher Jesus Flores (26) poses for a portrait during photo day at spring training, Viera, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A long line of 2012 Cruze sedans sit at a Chevrolet dealership in the south Denver suburb of Englewood, Colo., on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Edward Williams talks with Ward 5 D.C. Council candidate Delano Hunter (right), who is among the 16 hopefuls running for the vacated seat of Harry Thomas Jr. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Political signs on Rhode Island Avenue Northeast are too big to be overlooked Tuesday by a pedestrian. Ward 5 D.C. Council candidates Shelly Gardner and Wilson Boston are among the 16 hopefuls running for the vacated seat of Harry Thomas Jr. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (right) speaks at a GOP presidential campaign fundraiser at the Mason City Country Club in Mason City, Iowa, on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Gilgit-bound passengers wait Feb. 28, 2012, for a bus at a bus terminal in Islamabad, Pakistan, as transporters suspend their service due to firing on their buses. Gunmen wearing military uniforms stopped a convoy of buses on way to Gilgit in northern Pakistan, ordered selected passengers to get off and then killed 16 of them in an apparent sectarian attack, the police and a lawmaker said. (Associated Press)
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Fuel in a jet dryer burns after Juan Pablo Montoya's car slewed sideways and struck it during a caution period in the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla., Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael L. Levitt)
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Former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska reportedly is rethinking his decision not to run for the seat Sen. Ben Nelson is vacating. He has not been on a ballot in his state since 1994. (Associated Press)
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In this Dec. 14, 2011, line worker Jeff Danes demonstrates moving a battery charger for a Ford Focus on the assembly line at the Ford Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford said Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, that sales rose 7 percent in January on strong demand for small cars and SUVs. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Billionaire inverstor Warren Buffett chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is interviewed by Becky Quick, co-host of CNBC's "Squawk Box," on the floor of the Omaha World-Herald's press room Monay Feb. 27, 2012, in Omaha Neb. Buffett said Monday that stocks remain relatively cheap compared to other investments as the economy continues to improve. He also said that the company he heads is prepared to replace him whenever the need arises. (AP Photo/The Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Beiermann)
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Vann Sorrell, of Buies Creek, N.C., the father of Bladensburg volunteer firefighter Ethan Sorrell, who was injured in a house fire in Riverdale on Friday, gathers his thoughts as he speaks to the media at Sunday at Washington Hospital Center. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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AJ Allmendinger's car (22) and others remain parked on pit road due to a rain delay before the start of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. The race was postponed until Monday. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Pamela Druckerman, author of "Bringing Up Bebe," was struck by the good manners of children in Paris, where she raises her own brood of three. (Associated Press)
