Photos for March 21, 2013
Files/Associated Press Vehicles pack a main road during rush hour in Beijing in December 2010. China overtook the U.S. late last year as the world's largest oil importer.
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Heritage baseball player Dakota Clevidence scores against Hockinson, Monday, March 18, 2013. Clevidence went 2-2 and 3 RBI. (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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Carol Chrysong founder of The Lucky Duck Rescue & Sanctuary in Los Angeles, holds pekin ducks at the sanctuary in Sun Valley, Calif. If a parent has a child who really wants a duck, visit a shelter or zoo and watch the ducks, Chrysong advised. Parents have to remember that ducks live 20 years and more, and it's unlikely the child can take the duck to college.
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A Muscovy male duck named Quasimodo looks on while two Pekin ducks play in a swimming pool at The Lucky Duck Rescue & Sanctuary in Sun Valley, Calif.
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Members of the Savvy Savers Coupon Clippers gather twice a month to swap coupons at Southeast Regional Library in Garner, N.C.
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Veronica Shores, center, and members of the Savvy Savers Coupon Clippers gather twice a month to swap their unwanted coupons for ones they want/need at Southeast Regional Library in Garner, North Carolina on February 13, 2013.
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Members of the Savvy Savers Coupon Clippers gather twice a month to swap their unwanted coupons for ones they want/need at Southeast Regional Library in Garner, N.C.
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Tom Clements
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JOE DUTY/Wise County Messenger Emergency personnel work the scene of a crash and shootout between police and the driver of a black Cadillac with Colorado plates on Thursday in Decatur, Texas.
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Evan Spencer Ebel
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Ramon Lopez Guitron was sentenced Thursday to nine days in jail, with credit for nine days served, for conspiracy to deal methamphetamine out of a former Vancouver restaurant.
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Portland Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge, left, celebrates with guard Damian Lillard after scoring a basket during the second half Thursday.
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Former Skamania County Auditor John Michael Garvison, left, appears Thursday in Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson's courtroom. Johnson ordered Garvison to spend three weekends in jail for failing to complete community service required as part of his conviction of shredding public documents.
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Former Skamania County Auditor John Michael Garvison, left, with attorney Jon McMullen, appear Thursday in Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson's courtroom. Johnson ordered Garvison to spend three weekends in jail for failing to complete community service required as part of his conviction of shredding public documents.
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Former Skamania County Auditor John Michael Garvison, left, appears Thursday in Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson's courtroom. Johnson ordered Garvison to spend three weekends in jail for failing to complete community service required as part of his conviction of shredding public documents.
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Former Skamania County Auditor John Michael Garvison appears Thursday in Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson's courtroom.
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Former Skamania County Auditor John Michael Garvison appears Thursday in Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson's courtroom. Johnson ordered Garvison to spend three weekends in jail for failing to complete community service required as part of his conviction of shredding public documents.
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Former Skamania County Auditor John Michael Garvison, left, with attorney Jon McMullen, appear Thursday in Clark County Superior Court Judge Barbara Johnson's courtroom. Johnson ordered Garvison to spend three weekends in jail for failing to complete community service required as part of his conviction of shredding public documents.
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Mike Ginter, with his dog Max, helps clean up pieces of his father's barn after a tornado-like wind tore the roof off in Hockinson on Thursday.
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Mike Ginter helps collect pieces of his father', barn after a tornado-like wind tore the roof off, sending peices approximately 600 feet away and in to a field in Hockinson on Thursday.
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Eathan Ginter, 11, stands next to his grandfather', barn after a tornado-like wind tore the roof off in Hockinson on Thursday.
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Michael Boysen
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Associated Press files FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, Colton Harris-Moore, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," stands in Island County Superior Court in Coupeville, Wash. Jonathan Standridge, a Boeing project manager, is serving as a mentor to Harris-Moore while Harris-Moore serves time in prison for series of thefts that included boats, cars and airplanes. =
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Photos by European Space Agency Planck Collaboration This image released Thursday shows the evolution of satellites designed to measure ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, left over from the Big Bang. The three panels show patches of all-sky maps created by space-based missions capable of detecting the cosmic microwave background. The first craft, launched in 1989, at left, is NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE. The second satellite, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, center, was launched in 2001. The third satellite, Planck, was launched in 2009.
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This image shows the afterglow of the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background, as detected by the European Space Agency's Planck space probe. The radiation was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old.
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George Efstathiou Astrophysicist
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Parents protest school closures Thursday outside the home of Chicago's Board of Education President David Vitaleís in Chicago.
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Family friend Oscar Arvidson surveys damage to Don Ginter's barn near Hockinson late Thursday afternoon following a severe weather event described by at least one witness as a "tornado."
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Haley Phillips captured this image of hail falling from a strong spring storm near Hockinson Thursday afternoon.
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Owners of Young Art Lessons and Young Art Fashions say they are moving their business interests to California.
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Young Art Lessons and Young Art Fashion, side-by-side stores on West Eighth Street across from Esther Short Park, will close their doors at the end of April.
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Customers order food at the deli counter of Junior's Deli in Los Angeles, California, in December 2012. Delis are on declining in number, and even landmark locations like Junior's aren't immune to the industry slide. (Arkasha Stevenson/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Sheila Abramson, a waitress at Langer's Delicatessen in Los Angeles, reaches out for a plate while serving customers on National Pastrami Day on January 14.
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John Saul, co-owner of Junior's Deli in Los Angeles, California, delivers food to a table in December 2012. Delis are on declining in number, and even landmark locations like Junior's aren't immune to the industry slide. (Arkasha Stevenson/Los Angeles Times/MCT)
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Oregon forward Ben Carter (32) and forward Arsalan Kazemi celebrate at the end of the first half Thursday. Oregon defeated Oklahoma State 68-55.
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Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk, right, looks to pass as Southern University's Malcolm Miller defends in the first half Thursday.
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Washington State University Vancouver instructor Barry Hewlett enjoys refreshment with some nomadic people of southwest Ethiopia.
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Bonnie Hewlett's photo of an Aka hunter-gatherer father holding his daughter, as featured in "The World Until Yesterday" by Jared Diamond.
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Barry Hewlett's Ethiopian doctoral student, Samuel Dira, and his wife and child.
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Prince Arrives
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaks in New York's City Hall Blue Room on Thursday. Relatives of shooting victims from Newtown, Conn., stood with Bloomberg and Biden as they spoke in favor of an assault weapons ban.
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The Washington Supreme Court said Thursday that the Court of Appeals went out-of-bounds in 2011 when it invalidated annexations by the cities of Ridgefield and Camas. The land annexed by Ridgefield and Camas included hundreds of acres of agricultural land, including the Kennedy dairy south of Ridgefield, the Johnson dairy north of Lacamas Lake and Green Mountain Golf Course, above.
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Colton Harris-Moore, right, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," appears in a court hearing with his attorney, John Henry Browne, left, Thursday in Mount Vernon. Harris-Moore is already serving a seven-year prison term after pleading guilty to state and federal crimes, but Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich filed theft and burglary charges earlier in 2013 against Harris-Moore, accusing him of stealing an airplane from Anacortes and flying it to the airport on Orcas Island.
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Board gamers play a variety of board games at the Dice Age store in Vancouver on March 15.
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Board gamer Robert Hawthorne thinks about his next move on Catan Seafarers at the Dice Age store in Vancouver.
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Board gamer Pete Harper moves his Great Eagle into position next to the Ellyrian Reavers during a War Hammer Fantasy Battle at the Dice Age store in Vancouver on March 15.
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Board gamers Pete Harper, left, and Jake Hermens make their moves on a War Hammer Fantasy Battle at the Dice Age store March 15 in Vancouver. Photos by Greg Wahl-Stephens for The Columbian
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Board gamer Seaton Bryan, right, explains the rules of Spartacus to other players, including Robert Wood on March 15 at the Dice Age store in Vancouver.
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Rebecca Levey, mother of 10-year-old twin girls, runs a tween video review site called KidzVuz.com and blogs about technology and educations issues.
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Rebecca Levey, who also runs a tween video review site called KidzVuz.com and blogs about technology and educations issues, says, "What sex education used to be — it's now the 'technology talk' we have to have with our kids." She explains that children need to understand the pitfalls of carelessly sharing personal information online.
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Marian Cabello
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Archie Cabello
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Vincent Cabello
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Kenneth Chaffin
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Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond gives a ministerial statement including an announcement of the date of the independence referendum at the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh on Thursday. Scots will vote on whether or not the country should become independent on Sept. 18 2014.
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Pakistani police officer looks at remains of a vehicle following an explosion at the Jalozai camp on the outskirts of the main northwest city of Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday. A car packed with explosives blew up inside a refugee camp in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday as hundreds of people lined up to get food, killing and wounding dozens, police said.
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An image of a U.S. State Dept. document provided by the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, crediting four embassies, Canadians, Britian, Swedish and New Zealand, with aiding in the protection and escape of six Americans from Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Director and producer Ben Affleck accepts the award for best picture for "Argo" during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Dr. Paul Melchert, left, gets interrupted by son, Emmett, as he attempts to address the media while his partner, James Zimerman, right, holds twin Gabriel during a news conference in St. Paul, Minn., in February, where lawmakers introduced a bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota.
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Protesters hold signs in front of the federal building in Montpelier, Vt., on Dec. 18, 2009.
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Dave Connor holds a sign in front of the federal building in Montpelier, Vt., on March 15.
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They've outlasted the U.S. war in Iraq. From right, at a protest earlier this month: John Snell, Glen Hutcheson, Dave Connor and Ann Burcroff.
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Debra Stoleroff, center, stands in front of the federal building in Montpelier, Vt., on April 8, 2003, in a vigil against the war in Iraq. More than a decade after anti-war protesters started a weekly vigil in front of the Montpelier post office, they keep coming.
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Protesters hold signs in front of the federal building in Montpelier, Vt., earlier this month.
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Isreali right wing activists carry a banner calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish American who was jailed for life in 1987 on charges of spying on the United States, in Jerusalem on Thursday.
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A Jordanian activist chants anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy against the upcoming visit by President Barack Obama to the kingdom in Amman, Jordan, on Thursday. The red flag reads in Arabic "the Jordanian Communist Party."
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President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at the Jerusalem Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel, on Thursday.
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Paul Simon, right, and Art Garfunkel perform at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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President Barack Obama points towards REI CEO Sally Jewell as he announces that he is nominating her as the next interior secretary replacing outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar,in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington in February.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wis. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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KBS employees try to recover a computer server a day after a cyberattack caused computer networks at the company to crash in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday.
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Luke Michael Love, 18, appears in Clark County Superior Court March 21, 2013 on suspicion of threat to bomb Battle Ground High School Courtesy of KATU
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In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, Colton Harris-Moore, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," stands in Island County Superior Court in Coupeville, Wash. Jonathan Standridge, a Boeing project manager, is serving as a mentor to Harris-Moore while Harris-Moore serves time in prison for series of thefts that included boats, cars and airplanes. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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