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Smoke rises from burning railroad cars carrying crude oil after they derailed in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Saturday, July 6, 2013. A large swath of the town was destroyed, and up to 1,000 people were forced to evacuate. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)

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Ray Heslep of Glen Burnie, Md., checks out an assortment of firearms at the Annapolis Gun Show in April. About 7 percent of first-time buyers bought firearms at gun shows, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s survey. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford, left, and NASDAQ head of listings Bob McCooey chat before the ringing of the closing bell on Monday, July 1, 2013 in New York. The ACC visited the NASDAQ Market Site in Times Square to officially announce the addition of its three new members in Notre Dame, Pitt and Syracuse. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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University of Iowa student Angie Platt, 20, is seen on campus in Iowa City, Iowa, on July 1, 2013. College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring — unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday. Platt said the increase in interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans will add to her debt load, which is expected to top $60,000 by the time she graduates. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A shelf of General Mills Lucky Charms cereal in a Giant Eagle grocery in Pittsburgh on Sept. 21, 2006. (Associated Press)

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The grassroots group Moms Demand Action is calling for its 100,000 members to march for "gun sense" during the Fourth of July. (image from Moms Demand Action)

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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2013 file photo, Tampa Bay Lightning center Vincent Lecavalier looks toward the action during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers in Tampa, Fla. The Lightning are buying out the contract of Lecavalier, a move that will create salary cap space and make one of the stars of the franchise's only Stanley Cup champion a free agent next month. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

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Carnival Corp. Chief Executive Officer Micky Arison speaks about the state of the cruise industry during an interview in his office at company headquarters in Miami in 2007. (AP Photo/David Adame)

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A shopper looks over clothing at the Vermont Trading Company in Montpelier, Vt., on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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**FILE** Iranian vendors hold their dogs as they wait for customers at an animal vendors' weekly open air market in a suburb of Tehran on Dec. 30, 2011. (Associated Press)