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Mustafa, a displaced Syrian man affected by a hiatal hernia, is seen at his family tent in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Healthcare Safety, speaks about the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy implicated in a deadly meningitis outbreak, during a news conference at the Statehouse in Boston on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick looks on. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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A pedicab driver takes a couple for a tour of New York’s Central Park. Ever since a Texas family had to pay a pedicab driver $442 to ride 14 blocks in the Big Apple during the summer, city officials have been pushing for fare reform. (Associated Press)

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A pedicab driver takes a couple for a tour of New York’s Central Park. Ever since a Texas family had to pay a pedicab driver $442 to ride 14 blocks in the Big Apple during the summer, city officials have been pushing for fare reform. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A pumping unit sucks oil from the ground near Greensburg, Kan., on March 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Workers gather to remove broken glass and debris at a clothing shop damaged in a car bomb attack that killed Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in the Achrafieh district of Beirut on Oct. 23, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Black smoke rises from a burning house in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Oct. 22, 2012. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Marines run through dust kicked up by a Black Hawk helicopter from Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment as they rush a colleague wounded in an IED strike for evacuation near Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Sergio Romo celebrates the final out of Game 7 of the National League Championship Series between the Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals on Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. The Giants won 9-0. (Associated Press/The Sacramento Bee)

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St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Jason Motte throws during the eighth inning of Game 7 of the National League Championship Series between the Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants on Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

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A Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-06M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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Black smoke rises in Tripoli, Lebanon, on Monday from a burning house that was attacked during clashes that erupted between supporters and foes of the Syrian regime. (Associated Press)

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Defendants Claudio Eva (center) and Bernardo De Bernardinis (third from right) listen to the verdict at the court in L'Aquila, Italy, on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The two were among seven scientists and experts convicted of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)