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Ellen Lurie, 6, of Washington is sandwiched between news photographers and reporters during the inaugural Groundhog Day event at Dupont Circle in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Fox 5 meteorologist Tucker Barnes holds up his microphone to get the groundhog's prediction during the inaugural Groundhog Day event at Dupont Circle in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Jack Evans (left) and Aaron DeNu (right) announce the proclamation declaring Thursday as "Potomac Phil Day" before Potomac Phil — a stuffed, mounted groundhog — "predicts" the weather during the inaugural Groundhog Day event at Dupont Circle in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The woodchuck predicted six more weeks of winter. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A stuffed and mounted groundhog named Potomac Phil stands on display during the inaugural Groundhog Day event at Dupont Circle in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Phil "predicted" six more weeks of winter. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess (left), Defense Intelligence Agency director; CIA Director David H. Petraeus (center); and James R. Clapper, director of national intelligence, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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The home at 4433 Klingle St. NW in the District's Wesley Heights neighborhood is on the market for $1,650,000. The four-bedroom home was built in 1933 and a large two-story addition was built about 10 years ago.
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Two life rafts from the ferry MV Rabaul Queen, seen from a helicopter, float in the open waters off Papua New Guinea's east coast on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Post Courier)
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D.C. Council member Jack Evans (left) and Aaron DeNu (right) announce the proclamation of Tuesday as "Potomac Phil Day" as a stuffed, mounted groundhog named "Potomac Phil" is introduced to offer his weather and political predictions during the inaugural Groundhog Day event at Dupont Circle in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Greg Brooks, co-manager of Sub Sea Research, is seen aboard the salvage ship Sea Hunter in Boston Harbor Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, holding a picture of the British merchant ship Port Nicholson, which was sunk by a German U-boat in 1942 with a cargo of 71 tons of platinum now worth about $3 billion. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
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Job seekers Cameo Taylor (left) and Angelique McGuire (center), both of San Francisco, wait in line to register at a career fair event in San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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** FILE ** Jayashri Srikantiah, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, holds up copies of records showing passengers checked on no-fly lists from San Francisco International Airport, as plaintiffs Jan Adams, right, and Rebecca Gordon, center, look on during a news conference in San Francisco, in this April 22, 2003, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Washington Capitals center Brooks Laich checks Florida Panthers defenseman Erik Gudbranson during the first period in Sunrise, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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A 70-degree afternoon Wednesday gets people shedding jackets and enjoying the outdoors. As girls run past the statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in the District's Lincoln Park, 6-year-olds Amelia Huxley and Owen Stamper play underneath it. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Quarterback Joe Flacco (right) and Ray Rice are integral parts of Baltimore's organization, and Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti plans on keeping them both around for years to come.
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President Obama, in an appearance at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, details his proposal that would allow millions of "underwater" borrowers to refinance home loans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Herman Nackaerts, a deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is interviewed upon his arrival from Iran at Schwechat Airport in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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A public-private trust at the center of former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr.'s theft scandal gave more than $100,000 to groups not registered as nonprofits and others not in city records. (The Washington Times)
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Italian Guardia di Finanza and Civil Protection officers recover pieces of furniture from the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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U.S. Rep. Denis Kucinich, D-Ohio, left, introduces Willie Nelson, background, during his fundraiser in Lorain, Ohio Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Redistricting has pitted Kucinich against Toledo area congresswoman Marcy Kaptur in the March primary. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar (right) is accompanied by (from far left) Sen. Bill Nelson, National Park Ranger Supervisor Al Mercado and Ron Bergeron of the Fish and Wildlife Service showing off a 13-foot python from the Everglades.
