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A National Guardsman stops a motorist from driving down Highway 14 north of Laporte, Colo., on Thursday, June 17, 2012, as a stubborn wildfire burns in northern Colorado. (Associated Press)

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Fires erupt on a ridge over a Boy Scouts camp east of Red Feather Lakes, Colo., on Sunday as a stubborn wildfire continues to burn in northern Colorado. Crews are facing powerful winds as they battle the blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. (Associated Press)

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A 10-person crew along with a rescue dog and handler searched for four Japanese climbers on Alaska's Mount McKinley on Saturday. Evidence suggests that the climbers were swept into a deep crevasse by an avalanche on Wednesday and are dead. (National Park Service via Associated Press)

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This photo provided by Alexandra Mihan shows a stage before it collapsed at the site for a Radiohead concert at Downsview Park in Toronto on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Toronto paramedics say one person is dead and another is seriously hurt after the stage collapsed while setting up for a Radiohead concert. They say two other people were injured and are being assessed. (AP Photo/Alexandra Mihan via The Canadian Press)

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In this Friday, June 15, 2012 photo provided by the National Park Service, climbers hike through the area where an avalanche swept a Japanese climbing team off a hill during their descent from Alaska's Mount McKinley. U.S. National Park Service officials say five people were traveling as a one rope team early Thursday morning as part of a Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation expedition on the Alaska mountain. The NPS said Hitoshi Ogi, 69, survived after falling 60 feet (18 meters) into a crevasse. He was able to climb out. The other four tumbled into the avalanche debris and haven't been seen since. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Kevin Wright)

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A sign warns motorist of the closure of Highway 14 through Poudre Canyon as columns of smoke rise in the distance from the High Park wildfire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday, June 15, 2012. The wildfire started Saturday and has burned over 50,000 acres. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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FILE - This undated file image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows the X-37B spacecraft. The unmanned Air Force space plane steered itself to a landing early Saturday, June 16, 2012, at a California military base, capping a 15-month clandestine mission. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, File)

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Kevin Costner arrives June 14, 2012, at a federal courthouse in New Orleans for the trial for Stephen Baldwin's lawsuit against Costner over their multimillion dollar business dispute in the aftermath of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit accuses Costner and Smith of duping Baldwin and friend Spyridon Contogouris over their investments in an oil cleanup device that BP used after the spill. (Associated Press)

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Aubrey Plaza (left) and Karan Soni (backseat) play interns accompanying Jake M. Johnson on a story assignment about time travel in "Safety Not Guaranteed." (FilmDistrict via Associated Press)

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Actress Lucy Lawless (left) and Greenpeace activists Viv Hadlow and Raoni Hammer walk outside Auckland District Court in Auckland, New Zealand, on Thursday, June 14, 2012, after answering charges related to the occupation of the oil-drilling ship the Noble Discoverer in February. (AP Photo/Greenpeace)