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Thai police officers inspect a motorcycle and a Ferrari involved in a hit-and-run accident during an investigation at Thong Lor police station in Bangkok on Monday. A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving the Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body down a Bangkok street in a hit-and-run. (Associated Press)

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Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) meets with Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Mr. Assad told Mr. Maurer that the Red Cross is welcome to operate on the ground in the country as long as it remains "neutral and independent," the SANA state news agency reported. (AP Photo/SANA)

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President Obama walks past debris on the sidewalks as he tours the Bridgewood neighborhood in LaPlace, La., in the Saint John the Baptist Parish, with local officials to survey the ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Smoke plumes rise from the West Ash Creek wildfire near Crawford, Neb., on Saturday. Firefighters made progress Sunday and Monday in containing three wildfires affecting areas of Nebraska and South Dakota. Conditions are likely to remain ripe for fires because hot weather and drought have dried vegetation. (Omaha World-Herald via Associated Press)

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Floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac inundate structures in Scaresdale, La., on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Pakistani officials and rescue workers gather at the site of the suicide bombing of a U.S. government vehicle in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. A (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Police officers remove a computer hard drive from a Pathmark supermarket on Route 9 in Old Bridge, N.J., Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Officials say a supermarket employee killed two people at the store early Friday and then fatally shot himself. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)

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** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2001, file photo shows an aerial view of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Authorities say a 20-year-old man who plunged about 35 feet from the Georgia Dome's upper level and struck another fan during the Tennessee-North Carolina State college football game has died. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Rich Addicks)

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Tony Miranda takes a break from clearing out his home in LaPlace, La., on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, after it was flooded by Hurricane Isaac. (AP Photo/The Advocate, Arthur D. Lauck)