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In this photo from March 10, 2012, Aida, 32, reacts as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib north Syria. Aida's husband and two children were killed. (Associated Press)
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In this photo from March 10, 2012, Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib north Syria. Aida's husband and and two children were killed after their home was shelled. (Associated Press)
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Children light candles during a memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, near the site of Heijo Palace in Nara, central Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A girl waits her turn to release a lantern into the waters of Tokyo Bay to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeast Japan, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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Three lights are projected in the evening sky during a "Light from 311 Japan" event in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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People light candles in the shape of "Kizuna," which means "the inseparable bond between people", during a memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, near the site of Heijo Palace in Nara, central Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Candles are lit in the shape of "3.11 (March 11)" as people offer prayer for the victims of the last year's earthquake and tsunami, with a backdrop of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan bows to the altar during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Japan POOL)
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Pedestrians offer prayers at 2:46 p.m., the moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck a year ago, for the disasters' victims, at Ginza district in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation a year ago, killed just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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With the back drop of the 330 ton fishing vessel Kyotoku Maru No. 18 which was flung 800 meters (0.5 mile) inland from Kesennuma port by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, the Kikuta family observe a moment of silence at a site where their house once stood at 2:46 PM, the time the earthquake hit one year ago, in Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012. T (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Toshio Nishizawa, president of TEPCO, the operator of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, observes a moment of silence with his workers for the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami victims at the nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Mourners in protective suits and masks gather for prayers for their loved ones who were killed in the last year's earthquake and tsunami, inside the contaminated exclusion zone near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Sunday, March 11, 2012.(AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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A girl lights candles in front of a temporary shopping complex in the earthquake and tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 11 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the massive disaster that devastated Japan one year ago. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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An open area in front of a temporary shopping complex in the devastated city of Kesennuma, Japan, serves as the site of a candlelit memorial to those killed in the earthquake and tsunami on March, 11, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (left) gives a memorial address as Emperor Akihito (second from right) and Empress Michiko listen during the national memorial service for the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Pool)
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Alexander Semin signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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**FILE** Citizens respond to speakers during a Jan. 11, 2012, community forum in Youngstown, Ohio, to discuss recent seismic activity related to deep wastewater injection wells. (Associated Press)
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Jim Larranaga, in his first year at Miami after a successful stint at George Mason, has the Hurricanes in play for an NCAA bid. (Associated Press)
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Workers dump bags filled with radiation contaminated soil - and sometimes the snow that had covered it - from a neighborhood in Hirono. "We often encounter situations that are not in the manual and wonder if we are doing the right thing," worker Takahiro Watanabe said.
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**FILE** This satellite image shows the military complex at Parchin, Iran, 30 km (about 19 miles) southeast of Tehran on Aug. 13, 2004. (Associated Press/DigitalGlobe/Institute for Science and International Security)
