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A rescue worker uses a zip-line to cross a civilian through an overflowed river in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Workers remove mud from a house in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Cars are buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Men inspect a vehicle buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Overall view of the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010, after a landslide occurred. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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People remove mud from a street after a landslide in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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People rest at a temporary shelters in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The mudslide has left 11 people missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Washington Police officers collect evidence at a crime scene on 13th and U Street in Northwest Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Police are searching for a suspect in a shooting and subsequent car crash that left one person dead and two others wounded on Washington's popular U Street corridor (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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New BP Chairman Bob Dudley, left, addresses members of the Southern Governor's Association meeting in Hoover, Ala., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 regarding the Gulf oil spill. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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A man comforts a grieving woman near the scene of the shooting, which occurred in Matapan, a neighborhood that had 14 homicides in 2010 before Tuesday, compared to six in the same time last year. (Associated Press)
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Boston Police detectives search for evidence after a pre-dawn shooting Tuesday in which four people, including a toddler, were fatally shot and a fifth sustained life-threatening injuries. Boston has experienced a spike in violent crime this year. (Associated Press)
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University of Texas students gather as police respond to a shooting inside a campus library Tuesday. A gunman later identified by Austin police as a student opened fire, then fatally shot himself. (Associated Press)
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In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean youth dance to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's re-election to the party's top position of general secretary in a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Police officers escort a student to safety, across from the Perry-Castaneda Library, after a shooting at the University of Texas library in Austin on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Andrew Torrey)
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In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean youth dance to celebrate North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top position of general secretary in Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Bob Graham, co-chairman of the commission investigating the BP oil spill, said federal officials underestimated their challenge just as George Custer did at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Eric Lobner, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, places sandbags Monday where water is seeping through a levee in Portage. An estimated 75 of 300 area residents have decided to stay in their homes, he said. (Associated Press)
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Workers operate the Plan C drill on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010, during efforts to rescue the 33 miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile. The miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)
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Catholics pray in the rubble of the Notre Dame cathedral during mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 that killed a government-estimated 300,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A musician plays a trumpet during a mass in honor of those killed in the earthquake in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 which killed a government-estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
