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A body is seen in a tornado-ravaged car while emergency workers wait for a medical team to arrive in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Emergency workers wait for a medical team after finding a body in a tornado-ravaged car in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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** FILE ** An emergency worker searches a tornado-damaged Walmart store in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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On Monday, May 23, 2011, an emergency worker searches a Walmart store that was severely damaged by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Emergency workers wait for a medical team after finding a body in a tornado-ravaged car in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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An emergency worker carries a girl to safety from the remains of Academy Sports in Joplin, Mo., after a tornado struck on Sunday evening, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/The Joplin Globe, Roger Nomer)
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A destroyed helicopter lies on its side in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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Rescue workers in lime-green jackets search for bodies and survivors inside St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. The hospital was damaged by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the city on Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Adam Wisneski)
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The damaged St. John's Regional Medical Center is seen in the distance through tornado debris in Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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A shelf cloud containing a thunderstorm approaches a tornado-ravaged neighborhood of Joplin, Mo., on Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital, hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Crew members from the Marine KC-130 plane sit on top of the wing as they watch the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, during the Open House and Air Show at Andrews Air Force Base, Sunday, May 22, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Smoke rises from Iceland's Grimsvotn, the island nation's most active volcano, on Saturday, May 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Halldora Kristin Unnarsdottir)
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Technicians monitor the status of a fracking drill as it descends thousands of feet below the earth's surface. Opponents say fracking contaminates the water supply with chemicals used in the process. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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"Hydraulic fracturing," or "fracking," requires backbreaking work, long hours and weeks at a time away from home. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)
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Smoke and ash rise from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles east of the capital, Rejkjavik, on Saturday, May 21, 2011. (AP Photo, Jon Gustafsson)
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In this undated publicity image released by WWE, professional wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage is shown. Savage, whose legal name is Randy Mario Poffo, died in a car crash in Florida on Friday, May 20, 2011, according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report. (AP Photo/WWE)
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** FILE ** In this April 4, 1989, file photo, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, top, has challenger Hulk Hogan in a headlock during the main event for Wrestlemania V in Atlantic City, N.J. Savage, whose legal name is Randy Mario Poffo, died in a car crash in Florida on Friday, May 20, 2011, according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report. (AP Photo/B. Vartan Boyajian, File)
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Smoke rises from a ship that was hit in an airstrike at a sea port in Tripoli, Libya, on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A farmhouse is protected by a small evee while another stands flooded near Yazoo City, Miss. For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall.
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Cars are stranded on a dry strip of roadway north of Vicksburg, Miss., on Thursday. Thousands have been displaced by the floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Mississippi and Louisiana.
