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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug. 13 , 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, cut a tree, as they try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 made available Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 photo a volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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Oleg Mikhailov, 42, whose house burned to the ground cleans some coins he found at the site of a fire in the village of Kartonosovo affected by a wildfire, Ryazan region, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Hundreds of wildfires sparked by the hottest summer ever in Russia have engulfed large areas. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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**FILE** In this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), the reactor building of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen, just outside the port city of Bushehr 750 miles (1245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, in this Nov. 30, 2009 file photo. Russia's nuclear agency spokesman Sergei Novikov said Friday Aug. 13, 2010 it will load fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant next week, marking the start of its launch. (AP Photo/ISNA, Mehdi Ghasemi) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES

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In this photo released by Sincrocine Producoes Cinematograficas , Brazilian actor Guilherme Berenguer touches the 15-month-old jaguar named Catarina in Santarem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 2010. Catarina, an endangered spotted jaguar rescued from poachers, is one of the stars of a soon-to-released feature film shot in the Brazilian Amazon, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sincrocine Producoes Cinematograficas)

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee exchange documents after signing the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, during a ceremony at the State Department, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee clasp hands after signing the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy during a ceremony at the State Department, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Residents remove belongings from their home as water from the South Skunk River floods neighborhoods in Colfax, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)

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A1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk,Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea, and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)

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This1999 photo shows the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk, Russia. The Kursk, one of the biggest and newest submarines in the Russian navy, is trapped at a depth of 354 feet, above the Arctic Circle in the Barents Sea and rescue attempts continue Tuesday August 15, 2000. (AP Photo)

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The Oxford model at Monticello has a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area. It has 2,654 square feet and is priced from $519,990.

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K. Hovnanian Homes is building 75 single-family homes on sites of 6,500 to 12,087 square feet at Monticello in Annapolis. The homes have 2,466 to 3,052 finished square feet, with base prices from $484,990 to $554,990.

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Stanley Martin Homes is building 224 single-family homes on sites of a quarter-acre to three-quarters of an acre at Greene Mill Preserve in Leesburg. The homes have 2,155 to 6,988 finished square feet, with base prices from $439,990 to $584,990.

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FILE - In this file photo taken on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, a female orangutan named Beki eats bananas at Tanjung Puting National Park on Borneo island, Indonesia. When British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace arrived in Borneo's jungles 150 years ago, one of his great hopes was to see orangutans. Even he was surprised at his success, spotting the red apes feeding along river banks, swinging between branches, and staring down from trees almost the moment he arrived. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah, File)

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FILE - These two satellite images provided by NASA taken on July 28, 2010, left, and Aug. 5, 2010, right, shows the Petermann Glacier in Northern Greenland. A giant ice island, seen in image at right, has broken off the Petermann Glacier. A University of Delaware researcher says the floating ice sheet covers 100 square miles (260 sq. kilometers) _ more than four times the size of New York's Manhattan Island. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says the weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists, although those scientists always shy from tying individual disasters directly to global warming. (AP Photo/NASA)

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A villager is rescued by a Pakistani navy helicopter from the flooded area of Ghaus Pur in Pakistan's Sindh province on Wednesday. The floods are seen as an advantage to the Taliban militants. While Pakistani troops deal with the relief effort, the insurgents can take the time to regroup. (Associated Press)