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People take pictures of the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., from paddle boats on March 19, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A bison roams freely outside a pen enclosing others in Gardiner, Mont., in Yellowstone National Park. On Monday, 64 bison from Yellowstone were to arrive at Montana's Fort Peck Reservation under a relocation initiative to repopulate parts of the West with the animals. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Tongan King George Tupou V, who championed a more democratic system of government in his Pacific island nation, sits on the throne in Nuku'aloka, Tonga, in August 2008. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Glenn Jeffrey, File)
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President Obama holds hands with his daughters, Malia (left) and Sasha, as they leave Sea Life Park, a marine wildlife park, with family friends in Waimanalo, Hawaii, in December. (Associated Press)
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Oil wealth, if it occurs, stands to change the way of life on the Falklands. A survey ship (top) sails in Stanley Harbor before leaving on a scientific mission to study the undersea topography for offshore oil exploration. Penguins gather on the coast of Murrell Farm near the northeastern corner of the islands. (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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Brandon Meriweather made two Pro Bowls in New England, but the Patriots cut him before the 2011 season. He was subsequently signed by the Bears. Meriweather's signing is another sign LaRon Landry will not return. (Associated Press)
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As the sun rises over the Tidal Basin, Cory Cain, a tree worker with the National Park Service trims dead branches from a cherry tree as the cherry blossoms make an early arrival in Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 15, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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Beazer Homes is building active-adult condominiums at the Gatherings at Forest Glen in the planned community of Piney Orchard. Each home will have its own garage.
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"[W]e have a problem here," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, says at a hearing about the Obama administration's record on energy production. (Associated Press)
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A container ship is docked at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Ice partially covers the surface of Jew Pond in Mont Vernon, N.H., on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Rescuers search for victims of a ferry accident March 13, 2012, on the Meghna River in Munshiganj district, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Dhaka, India. The ferry, packed with about 200 people, capsized in the river in southern Bangladesh, killing 31 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said. (Associated Press)
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Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks March 10, 2012, during a conference of the PASOK socialist party at Faliro, near Athens. (Associated Press)
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A girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeast Japan, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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Three lights are projected in the evening sky during a "Light from 311 Japan" event in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan bows to the altar during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Japan POOL)
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Pedestrians offer prayers at 2:46 p.m., the moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck a year ago, for the disasters' victims, at Ginza district in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation a year ago, killed just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Toshio Nishizawa, president of TEPCO, the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, observes a moment of silence with his workers for the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami victims at the nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Mourners in protective suits and masks gather for prayers for their loved ones who were killed in the last year's earthquake and tsunami, inside the contaminated exclusion zone near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Sunday, March 11, 2012.(AP Photo/Kyodo News)
