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This Feb. 1, 2011, photo shows a car that landed vertically into a snowbank after a multiple vehicle accident on Interstate 93 during a snow storm north of Salem, N.H. No one was injured. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Tim Jean)
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Hospital patients are transported to safety as Cyclone Yasi threatens massive damage in Cairns, Australia. Extra commercial flights were scheduled so residents could evacuate. (Associated Press)
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Ilona Chisholm, 13 months, helps her mom shovel snow out of their driveway using a rake in Cohassett, Mass., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. The first half of a two-part winter storm is expected to drop up to a foot of snow in parts of New England on Tuesday before a second storm slams into the area Wednesday. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Ila Dooley works to dig her car out to try to get to work on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Owasso, Okla. Roads were reported slick and hazardous Tuesday morning, and both of Oklahoma's major airports were closed as a winter storm that is expected to dump up to 18 inches of snow in parts of Oklahoma moved into the state. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Mike Simons, )
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A stranded motorist reaches for her shovel to try to dig out her car in Edmond, Okla., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A monster storm began to bear down on the middle of the United States on Tuesday, threatening to leave up to a third of the nation covered in brutal winter weather. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, David McDaniel)
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Rebecca Valk walks to her office in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in near-whiteout conditions on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. A monster storm began to bear down on the middle of the nation, threatening to leave up to a third of the nation covered in brutal winter weather. (AP Photo/Poughkeepsie Journal, Spencer Ainsley)
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Two local residents walk through floodwater after getting ice and food to take to their flooded residence in the suburb of New Farm in Brisbane, Australia., on Jan. 13, 2011. Cyclone Yasi, a strong tropical cyclone, roared toward Australia's flood-ravaged northeast on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, prompting evacuations and warnings from officials that the storm could be the worst the already-swamped region has ever seen. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File)
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"A storm of this size and scope needs to be taken seriously," says FEMA administrator Craig Fugate. (Associated Press)
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An Indian national is interviewed by a reporter as he arrives in Mumbai, India, on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, on a special Air India evacuation flight carrying more than 300 passengers from Egypt's capital, Cairo. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Passengers stranded by a 4 p.m. curfew and thus prevented from traveling into Cairo sleep at the city's airport early on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Bertrand Combaldieu)
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Police officers inspect an overturned passenger train on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, after a head-on crash in Hordorf, near Oschersleben, Germany, on Saturday night killed at least 10 people and injured more than 20 others. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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The silhouettes of casualties are seen in the snow in front of overturned passenger rail cars after a head-on crash on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, between a freight and a passenger train in Hordorf, near Oschersleben in eastern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Jens Schlueter)
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People walk inside the damaged offices of Saudi Arabian Airlines, after they were looted and partially burned by anti-government protesters in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou)
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People protest outside a police station following the killing of two men in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A U.S. consular employee shot and killed two gunmen as they approached his vehicle in a congested street in Pakistan on Thursday, police said. A pedestrian was also killed by a speeding American car trying to help, an officer said. A placard reads "Americans are dogs." (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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Fires burn in the National Democratic Party ruling party headquarters, after it was set alight by anti-government protesters, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Lisa Shimamoto places flowers on a Challenger space shuttle memorial for USAF Col. Ellison Onizuka, the first Japanese American astronaut, who died along with six other crew members when the Challenger exploded just after launching 25 years ago Friday Jan. 28, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator Davis Strickland makes a statement as U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood looks on during a news conference announcing the new Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) in Waltham, Mass., Friday morning, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2005 file photo, the Louisiana Superdome sits in the foreground as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina continue to recede in New Orleans. The 36-year-old Louisiana Superdome is getting its biggest overhaul since Hurricane Katrina tore away a lot of the roof and flooded the arena with millions of gallons of water. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool, File)
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Carolina Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward (30) looks for the puck in a scramble in front of the goal with Hurricanes defenseman Jamie McBain (4) and New York Islanders center John Tavares (91) in the second period of their NHL hockey game at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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FILE - In a May 5, 2010 file photo, Dusty Chauvin watches as the Mariah Jade passes through a patch of oil dispersant off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. The most extensive study to gauge the effectiveness of chemical dispersants used deep in the ocean on the BP oil spill found mixed results. It appeared to keep some oil from bubbling up to the surface where it could do worse damage, but it didn't appear to biodegrade the oil quite as fast as promised. (AP Photo/The Houma Courier, Matt Stamey, File)
