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In this frame grab made from WGN-TV, Chicago firefighters work to save firefighters that were trapped when a wall collapsed on Wednesday Dec. 22, 2010, in Chicago's South Side while they were fighting a blaze at an abandoned commercial building. Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford confirmed that firefighters were unaccounted for at the scene on Chicago's South Side and that rescue crews were working to save them. (AP Photo/Courtesy WGN-TV)

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A young girl cries as passengers line up while waiting to check in for their flights at Heathrow Airport in London on Tuesday. More than half the flights were expected to be canceled.

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People gather outside the Foxwoods Theatre in Times Square where the theatrical version "Spider-man Turn off the Dark" was canceled, Wednesday, Dec . 22, 2010, in New York. The curtain will go up again Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 on "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" after the producers of the accident-plagued Broadway musical agreed to new safety precautions to prevent another fall like the one that left a stuntman seriously injured. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

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A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches for survivors in an area believed to be the crash site of a Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2010. The chopper crashed Monday into the ocean after returning from a drug raid, with all six people aboard feared dead, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Dia, Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

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A Haitian woman, carrying a bucket with goods to sell, walks by a house damaged by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince on Dec. 11.

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Associated Press photographs A Haitian man removes debris from a damaged house Dec. 11 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, nearly a year after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean island nation. Haitian contractors have played a negligible role in the rebuilding process.

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Workers defrost a plane at Heathrow Airport in London, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. Snow and freezing temperatures continued to cause holiday travel chaos for road, rail and air passengers in Britain and much of Europe Monday, raising fears that many will not get home in time for Christmas. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Workers clean up tar balls on Pensacola Beach, Fla. The lingering economic recession, a record cold Florida winter and the effects of the Gulf oil spill stalled the tourist traffic this year in parts of Florida.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is trying to move a mosque project away from ground zero in New York City.

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Italian financier Roberto Calvi headed the Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of Italy's largest fraud cases.

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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file photo, a farmer walks through his corn field covered in volcanic ash from Mount Merapi in Muntilan, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP Photo/File)

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Firefighters sift through the still-smoldering Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Tuguegarao city in Cagayan province in the northern Philippines after a fire rapidly swept through the budget hotel early Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The blaze killed 15 people, nine of whom were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam, officials said. (AP Photo)

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D.C. Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray introduces his public-safety team, flanked by Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, whom he renamed, and Paul A. Quander Jr., his pick as deputy mayor for public safety. (Associated Press)

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D.C. Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray introduces his public-safety team, flanked by Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, whom he renamed, and Paul. A. Quander Jr., his pick as deputy mayor for public safety. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Steve Salter, a service worker with Towne Properties, clears the sidewalk in front of an apartment complex in Covington, Ky., on Thursday after a winter storm plowed across the region.

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Craftmark Homes is building 20 single-family homes on sites of one-half acre to 2 acres at Frontgate Farms in Upper Marlboro. The homes have 2,748 to 5,571 finished square feet, with base prices from $519,900 to $674,900.

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Brookfield Homes is building 700 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Snowden Bridge in Stephenson. The homes have approximately 1,700 to 2,600 finished square feet, with base prices from $267,990 to $299,990.

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An Afghan soldier stands guard near a burnt out tanker which was carrying NATO fuel in the Behsud district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Officials said they believed a bomb had gone off inside or near the truck, sparking the fire. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS SPILL SALVO: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announces a lawsuit against BP PLC on Wednesday. The Justice Department accuses the company of failing to take proper safety precautions.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS SPILL SALVO: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announces a lawsuit against BP PLC on Wednesday. The Justice Department accuses the company of failing to take proper safety precautions.