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A survivor of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan cuts woods for fire for warmth at a shelter in the devastated town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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U.S. cargo planes land at Sendai airport Sunday with supplies of fresh water for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. American divers are helping clear underwater debris off Hachinohe to permit ships to pass. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. cargo planes land at Sendai airport Sunday with supplies of fresh water for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. American divers are helping clear underwater debris off Hachinohe to permit ships to pass.
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** FILE ** An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 is pushed back from a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state in June 2009. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama, right, huddles with his aide during a press conference on the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, in Tokyo on Friday March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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In this photo released by Democratic Voice of Burma, officials stand in front of a building destroyed by an earthquake in Tarlay, Shan state, Myanmar, Friday, March 25, 2011. The Thursday night quake, measured at a magnitude 6.8 by the U.S. Geological Survey, toppled homes in northeastern Myanmar and killed dozens of people. (AP Photo/DVB, Alinyaung)
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Burial is held in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed city of Higashimatsushima, northern Japan, on Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Medical workers in protective gear gather around an ambulance which arrived at a hospital in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, carrying two workers from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after they stepped into contaminated water while laying electrical cables in one unit Thursday, March 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Jun Yasukawa) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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The crew of the USS Ronald Reagan swabs the aircraft carrier's deck to remove radiation fallout after 10 days of delivering supplies to survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press)
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A resident walks between the rubble caused by the March 11 tsunami at Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Libyans inspect the wreckage of a U.S. F-15E fighter jet after it crashed Tuesday in a field east of Benghazi. Both crew members ejected and were rescued. The U.S. Africa Command blamed mechanical failure for the loss of the aircraft. (Associated Press)
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Fire crews established a containment line along Highway 6 in Clear Creek Canyon, Colo. Strong wind and warm, dry weather hampered efforts by firefighters to stop a wildfire burning across more than 700 acres in the foothills west of Golden. (Associated Press)
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Flames engulf part of the Interior Ministry complex in Cairo on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. An Egyptian security official said police protesting in front of ministry set fire to a part of the downtown complex that houses the agency's personnel department. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)
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A police officer stands near the burning Elysee Montmartre concert hall in Paris, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. About one hundred of firefighters pull off the fire at the historical concert hall that opened in 1807 in the Montmartre district of the French capital. No injuries was reported. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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A woman is screened Monday at an evacuee center for radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear facilities in northeastern Japan. Despite living in close proximity to six nuclear reactors, evacuees at this shelter never practiced an emergency drill to prepare them for a disaster. (Associated Press)
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An elderly Japanese woman searches for her belongings Monday in the quake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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A D.C. road crew repairs potholes in the 1300 block of Jasper Place Southeast on Monday. (Meredith Somers/The Washington Times)
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In this CD cover image released by Jive, the latest release by Britney Spears, "Femme Fatale," is shown. (AP Photo/Jive)
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Chiyoko Kaizuka, 83-year old farmer, weeds a spinach field Sunday, March 20, 2011 in Moriya, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex has seeped into the food chain, saying that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
