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Deep snow dwarfs a juvenile moose in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, March 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

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The town of Selta in the Shpati region of central Albania is seen here, with the snow-covered Baba Tomorr in the background. (Eckehard Pistrick/Special to The Washington Times)

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Connecting a rain barrel to a home's downspout captures rain water that then can be used to water plants. (Associated Press)

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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 112 single-family homes at Willowsford in Ashburn, Va., a 4,000-acre community with 2,000 acres of open space. The Huntington model, with 4,221 square feet, is priced from $709,990.

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Trailers lay smashed atop one another after a tornado reportedly tore through the southeastern portion of Dallas County, Texas, Tuesday, April 3, 2012, near Lancaster, Texas. The National Weather Service confirmed at least two separate "large and extremely dangerous" tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, G.J. McCarthy)

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The stricken cruise ship Azamara Quest is seen in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines on Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippine air force)

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Toll Bros. is building 13 town homes at Shady Grove Crossing in Derwood. The homes have 2,439 to 2,500 finished square feet, with base prices from $496,995 to $519,995. Homeowner association fees are $100 per month.

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This December 2011 photo shows the beach near Majahual in Costa Maya, Mexico. This region of Mexico is located on the coast of the western Caribbean, south of Cancun and the Riviera Maya. (AP Photo/Kim Curtis)

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In this March 2, 2012, photo, a New York City taxi driver pumps gas at a BP mini-mart, in New York. Experts say pump prices are rising on the expectation that supplies will dip next month while refineries switch from winter to summer gasoline blends. Forecasts see gas rising as high as $4.25 per gallon in late April. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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EYA is building 112 town homes at the Townhomes at Mosaic District in Fairfax. The homes have 1,848 to 2,566 finished square feet, with base prices from $597,400 to the $800,000s.

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** FILE ** A Taiwanese soldier stands at attention in front of a Patriot missile air defense system near the northern coastal town of Wanli, Taiwan, in October 2004. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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A woman retrieves items from a home in Bailey Yard, Neb., west of North Platte, after a tornado hit the area on Sunday, March 18, 2012. The National Weather Service rated the twister an EF3, with top winds of 165 mph. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, Joe Volcek)

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Two lifeguards prepare to make a rescue in a scene from ""Lifeguard!," a show about beach rescuers in Southern California. The series airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on the Weather Channel, which is showing more new programming to boost ratings. (The Weather Channel via Associated Press)

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A house is missing part of its roof on Noble Drive in Huron Farms neighborhood of Dexter, Mich., on March 15, 2012, after a tornado hit the neighborhood. The slow-moving storm was part of a system packing large hail, heavy rain and high winds. (Associated Press/AnnAbor.Com)

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Colorado Rockies' Juan Nicasio during a spring training workout Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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Brookfield Homes is building 150 single-family homes on 7,000-square-foot sites at the Preserve at Goose Creek in Ashburn. The Yates model, with 3,097 square feet, is priced from $529,990.

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A girl attending mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church sits in a pew in front of clothing and supplies that have been collected to aid victims of a tornado in Henryville, Ind., Sunday, March 4, 2012. The church was in the path of a tornado that destroyed much of the town. Three people were killed in Southern Indiana by Tornados on Friday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Piles of splintered wood is all that remains of homes in Henryville, Ind., Friday, March 2, 2012, in Marysville, Ind. Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes flattened buildings in several states, wrecked two Indiana towns and bred anxiety across a wide swath of the country in the second powerful tornado outbreak this week. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Michael Clevenger)

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A semitrailer lies on its side in front of the remains of a gas station following severe storms Friday, March 2, 2012, in Henryville, Ind. Tornadoes ripped across several small southern Indiana towns on Friday, killing at least three people and leaving behind miles of flattened devastation along the border with Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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The remains of the Henryville High school are examined by firefighters and residents of Henryville following severe storms that went through the area, Friday, March 2, 2012, in Henryville, Ind. Tornadoes ripped across several small southern Indiana towns on Friday, killing at least three people and leaving behind miles of flattened devastation along the border with Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)