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Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata reads a copy of a document signed by Pope Benedict XVI changing the rules of the conclave. (Associated Press)
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Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata reads a copy of a document signed by Pope Benedict XVI changing the rules of the conclave. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this aerial file photo created on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, an oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. Nearly three years after the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a high-stakes trial for the raft of litigation spawned by the disaster on Monday Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
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Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., are on duty at an underground tank farm where highly radioactive waste is stored on July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny)
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Curt Viebranz, the president of George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon estate, stands outside what will be a climate-controlled book vault inside the under-construction George Washington Library at Mount Vernon, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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President Obama speaks on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the White House about the sequester as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts. (Associated Press)
