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A man scavenges at a garbage dump in Dili, the capital of East Timor. A decade ago, the tiny nation broke from Indonesia and has since become on the most expensive United Nations nation-building projects. Many grave challenges remain. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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ASSOCIATED PRESS New Jersey's Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, the oldest nuclear power plant in the U.S., seen here in February 1998, is facing criticism from environmentalist groups after a series of radioactive water leaks were discovered.
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Locals wait out a storm in Goma, where the main thoroughfare is choked with potholes that fill with rainwater. Hunger and disease have killed an estimated 5 million people in Congo since 1998. "By any yardstick, [Congo] has been a humanitarian disaster, and one the world has ignored," says John Holmes, undersecretary-general of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)
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Above: Casey Trees' bicycle Crew Captain Karja Hansen turns on a Massachusetts Avenue fire hydrant, the water source the crew uses to water trees, as intern Evan Douglas looks on. Casey Trees has the nation's first bike-powered program to care for trees. Intern Heydi Lovo (right and below right) waters her trees.
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President Obama outlined his nuclear policy in a landmark speech in 2009 in Prague, proclaiming he would seek a "world without nuclear weapons." The forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review says his administration's calculation of setting the conditions for further cuts in global nuclear arms was a failure. (Agence France-Presse/File)
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Pipes carrying liquid natural gas, or LNG, and electrical lines run toward a storage tank at the Distrigas liquid natural-gas plant in Everett, Mass. Some energy experts say there is sufficient liquid natural-gas storage capacity in the U.S. to make natural gas a good choice for serving the nation's energy needs until other energy sources become more common.
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JOHN FRASSANITO AND ASSOCIATES NASA's Constellation program, initiated in 2005, is working on a new spacecraft that will return humans to the moon and blaze a trail to Mars and beyond. This rendering shows a concept of a lunar lander, lunar rover and astronauts on the moon's surface with a view of Earth in the distance.
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Associated Press photographs. *FILE* Jim Hill (above) looks after the marijuana he grows for medicinal purposes at his farm in Potter Valley, Calif., and shows the roots (left) of one plant.
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The government's required switch from incandescent light bulbs to CFLs come with potential hazards: Improper disposal of the mercury-powered bulbs may pollute landfills and groundwater. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Madelaine O'Neal, a freshman from St. Louis, Mo., studies outside the book store at the University of Colorado in Boulder on Oct. 1, 2008. (Associated Press)
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Riverdance returns to Wolf Trap for its annual engagement. **FILE**
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Association Press Coal River Mountain (left) forms the backdrop for a mountaintop coal-mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va.
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getty images photographs More than 2.5 million people have been driven into refugee camps as a result of the Sudanese government's scorched-earth policy in the troubled Darfur region. The policy has flattened villages and killed about 300,000 people.
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** FILE ** Brazilian sailors recover debris from the missing Air France Airbus jet in the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009 in this photo released by the Brazilian air force. (AP Photo)
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North Korea's spent nuclear fuel rods, kept in a cooling pond, are seen at the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. (Yonhap News Agency via Associated Press/File)
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Credit-card stickers announce a variety of options for charging the cost of a visit to a bowling alley in Palo Alto, Calif.
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** FILE ** D.C. firefighters (from top) Lt. Brian Alston, Ryan Doyle, Greg Smith and Shawn Welch attempt to drain the entrance area of a flooded residence in the Adams Morgan area in this 2009 file photo.
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**FILE** This Monday, May 22, 2006 file photo provided by Mary Sage shows a polar bear watching a whaling crew off shore near Barrow, Alaska. Polar bears were declared as a threatened species by the Interior Department on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 saying polar bears must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mary Sage, Joseph Napaaqtuq Sage) ** NO SALES **
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Former Vice President Al Gore testifies on climate change before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday. He threw his support behind the pending climate-change-prevention bill. (ALLISON SHELLEY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES) ** FILE **
