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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2011 file photo, A P-51 Mustang airplane crashes into the edge of the grandstands at the Reno Air show in Reno, Nev, leaving 11 people dead and 70 seriously injured. The National Transportation Safety Board, meeting in Washington, will determine the cause of the September 2011 crash of a modified World War II-era fighter plane into a spectator area during the 2011 National Championship Air Races in Reno on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Ward Howes, File)
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Kari Miller lost both legs as the result of a car crash in December 1999. (Garett Fisbeck/Special to The Washington Times)
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The El Sol Market in Brawley, Calif., was hit hard by an earthquake swarm on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Imperial Valley Press, Brandy Ronek)
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A policeman looks at a burned double-decker sleeper bus on Aug. 26, 2012, after it collided with a tanker loaded with highly-flammable methanol on an expressway in Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi province, causing both vehicles to burst into flames and killing 36 people, state media said. (Associated Press)
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A car goes through high water from heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Isaac in Key West, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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A family walks on a street as flames rise in the distance from an explosion at the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela. Residents near the country’s biggest oil refinery said they smelled a strong odor of sulfur hours before a gas leak led to an explosion on Saturday. The fire was still burning on Sunday (below). The blast damaged 209 homes and 11 businesses. (Associated Press)
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Members of a Florida consumer activism group Sunday march down the streets of Tampa, Fla., with a giant Mitt Romney puppet. Republican National Convention protesters, many of whom have camped outdoors, said the wind and rain expected Monday from Tropical Storm Isaac would not deter their plans for the week. Tampa officials warned that if safety becomes a concern, people will be ordered off the streets. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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In this photo released by MINUSTAH, the U.N. mission in Haiti, a woman swims through floodwaters in a low-lying area affected by Tropical Storm Isaac in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/MINUSTAH, Logan Abassi)
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Firefighters and rescue teams work at the Amuay oil refinery after an explosion in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Diario EL Amanecer)
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Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.
