Environment

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The oil-drilling platform Kolskaya is seen in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's Far East coast in an undated photograph. (AP Photo/Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka)

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Farmers work in a field outside the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, North Korea, on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Police carry the body of a victim by a flash flood that hit Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. A tropical storm triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines, killing scores of people and missing more. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of nearby Iligan said the coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off his coastal city for survivors or bodies that may have been swept to the sea by a swollen river. (AP Photo/Froilan Gallardo)

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"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" stars Robert Downey Jr. (left) as Holmes, Jude Law (right) as Dr. Watson and Noomi Rapace in director Guy Ritchie's stylized reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved sleuth. (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)

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A US Marine signs an Iraqi flag on his way to Tikrit in Northern Iraq Monday, April 14, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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US Marine Sgt. Rodney Tedder scouts out Highway 1 before a convoy he was in set out to resupply Marines fighting in Tikrit in Northern Iraq Monday, April 14, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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A US Marine walks through the rubble of the Iraqi Parliment Building in Saddam Hussein's Palace complex near the Tigris River Saturday, April 12, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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An Iraqi boy tries to pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein near burning government buildings in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, April 11, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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A dead Iraqi lies near a destroyed surface-to-air missle near where the1st Marine Division crossed into Baghdad over blown bridges crossing the Diyala River after 8th ESB spanned the damaged sections with bridging equipment in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, April 8, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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US Marine MP Lance Cpl. Joel Swenson attached to 1st Marines 4th Marine Division directs Baghdad citizens away from convoy routes near the Diyala River in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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US Marine convoys pass the burned out hulk of an Iraqi armored personnel carrier near the Diyala River in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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Iraqi citizens greet US Marine Col. J. J. Pomfret of CSSG 11 ( Combat Service Support Group 11 ) near one of Saddam Hussein's palaces on the east bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 12, 2003. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )

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Tan Liang carries a PM2.5 detector toward a garbage-burning facility near his residential compound in Beijing. Residents are demanding the right to know what the government does not tell them: just how polluted their city is. (Associated Press)

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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 107 villas at Greenfield Crossing in Aldie. The Hanover model, with 3,227 square feet, is priced from $429,990.

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The kitchen features white cabinets with a gray Corian counter. The owners added a shelf above the doorway leading to the dining room.

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"We know that [natural resources] will either help your country finance its own path out of poverty, or you will fall prey to the natural-resource curse, which will enrich a small elite, outside interests, corporations and countries, and leave your people hardly better off then when you started" - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Radioactive water pools outside a building with a purification device inside at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman discusses in Washington on Tuesday the NTSB's recommendation to ban all cellphone use by drivers except for emergencies. (Associated Press)

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From left: Jon Corzine, former MF Global Holdings Ltd. chairman and CEO; Bradley Abelow, MF Global president and COO; and Henri Steenkamp, MF Global CFO, are sworn in Dec. 13, 2011, on Capitol Hill prior to testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee. (Associated Press)