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Police evacuate residents in Mahahual, Mexico, on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, as Hurricane Ernesto bore down on the Caribbean coast. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

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associated press Taoufik Makhloufi celebrates his gold medal in the 1,500 meters Tuesday. The Algerian had been kicked out of the Olympics for not trying hard enough in another event, but he was reinstated when a doctor said he was injured.

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Attendees stay cool by waking through a mist tent during the Seven District's National Night Out. The annual event features community awards, crime prevention initiatives, health and wellness screenings and safety demonstrations and games. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Michael Huerta, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, speaks as one of the keynote speakers at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, North America 2012 conference inside the exhibition hall of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nev., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. (Martin S. Fuentes/Special to The Washington Times)

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Angered by the attack Sunday evening that left at least 16 on Egyptian soldiers dead, residents of Rafah protest by burning tires in the road on the outskirts Rafah, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo)

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This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at 1:45 a,m, EDT shows a swirl of clouds in the western Caribbean Sea associated with Tropical Storm Ernesto as it approaches the Yucatan Peninsula. Ernesto is expected to strengthen into a hurricane being landfall just north of Belize late Tuesday evening. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)

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**FILE** Smoke rises March 15, 2011, from the badly damaged Unit 3 reactor (left), next to the Unit 4 reactor covered by an outer wall at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okuma, Japan. The emergency command center at Japan's stricken nuclear plant shook violently when hydrogen exploded at Unit 3 and the plant chief reacted by shouting, "This is serious, this is serious," reveal videos of the crisis as it happened. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co., File)

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People sit at a campfire in a lot near the grandstands after the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after the rain-shortened race killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said. It wasn't immediately clear if all 10 people were actually struck by lightning in the parking lot behind the grandstand, nor was it known whether one or multiple strikes occurred. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Ravens safety Ed Reed, the franchise leader in interceptions with 57, has one year left on his contract. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Scott E. Rigell called the helicopter crash Aug. 6, 2011, that killed 25 members of Navy SEAL Team 6 “the most serious and heaviest loss of life for our SEAL community.” (Associated Press)

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Rebecca Kolar stands at the entrance to the three bedroom, brick home at 908 S. Dogwood St. where she and her husband, Douglas, lived with their two children for 13 years before fire destroyed it, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, in Luther, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel)