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Relatives of prisoners at the San Miguel prison react as they listen the list of names of inmates who died in a fire in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot killed at least 81 and seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)

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chile_2009

Relatives of inmates at San Miguel prison embrace as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

chile_2008

chile_2008

An inmate looks out of San Miguel prison where a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)

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chile_2007

Police stand guard outside the San Miguel prison where a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)

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chile_2006

Relatives of inmates in San Miguel prison react as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

chile_2005

chile_2005

Relatives of inmates at San Miguel prison react as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)

chile_2004

chile_2004

Relatives of inmates at San Miguel prison react as they wait for news after a fire killed at least 81 prisoners in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday Dec. 8, 2010. The prison fire set off during a riot also seriously injured at least 14 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)

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Firefighters work the site of a small-plane crash Sunday evening in Roy, Utah. Wreckage of the single-engine Cessna 210 appears to be on the lawn at left and right. Only the pilot was hurt. (Associated Press)

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concorde_1917

** FILE ** Air France Concorde Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on July 25, 2000, with fire trailing from the engine on its left wing. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. A decade later, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, a French court found Continental Airlines and a mechanic guilty in the crash. (AP Photo/Toshihiko Sato, File)

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concorde_1916

Ken Burtt, vice president of technical services at Continental Airlines, waits for the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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concorde_1915

In this July 25, 2000, photo, smoke billows from the crash site of an Air France Concorde in Gonesse, France, outside Paris. A French court on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics, John Taylor, guilty in the crash, which killed 113 people. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

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concorde_1914

** FILE ** In this July 25, 2000, photo, firefighters stand at the crash site of an Air France Concorde in Gonesse, France, outside Paris. A French court on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics, John Taylor, guilty in connection in the crash, which killed 113 people. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

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concorde_1913

** FILE ** This Aug. 31, 2000, photo taken from the preliminary report posted on the Internet by French investigators into the July 25, 2000, crash of Air France Concorde Flight 4590, shows a 16-inch metal strip found on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris following the crash. (AP Photo/HO, File)

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concorde_1912

Ken Burtt, vice president of technical services at Continental Airlines, waits for the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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concorde_1910

Jacques Herubel (center) -- a top engineer at Aerospatiale, which built the Concorde, from 1993 to 1995 -- talks with a lawyer before the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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concorde_1909

Maj. Andre Turcat (left), the first French test pilot of the Concorde, talks with chief mechanic Michel Retif (center), who was on the first flight of the Concorde, and Jean Belon of the French manufacturer of engines for aircraft, SNECMA, during the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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concorde_1907

Air France lawyer Fernand Garnault delivers a statement to the media after the conclusion of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. The court found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics guilty over the 2000 crash, which killed 113 people. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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concorde_1906

Roland Rappaport, center, lawyer for the French national pilots union SNPL, delivers a statement to the media after the conclusion of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. A French court found Continental Airlines Inc. and one of its mechanics, John Taylor, guilty in connection with the 2000 crash outside Paris in which 113 people were killed. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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concorde_1905

Consultants for Continental Airlines -- from left, lawyer Ed Green; Anthony G. Bouscaren, senior vice president of U.S. Aviation Underwriters; and Capt. Gary A. Wagner, president of Scientific Aircraft Accident Analysis -- wait for the opening of the Air France Concorde crash court case in Pontoise, France, north of Paris, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. The court found Continental guilty in the deadly 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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mud_1763

Soldiers and a resident carry a body recovered from the site where a landslide buried houses trapping dozens beneath mud and rubble following weeks of drenching rains in Bello, northwestern Colombia, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. At least 12 bodies were dug out of the mud. The Red Cross attributes more than 180 deaths to floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Colombia so far this year. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)