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The sun sets behind a burning ridge as a wildfire burns west of Loveland, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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This is an undated image of Micky Burn made available Monday Sept. 13, 2010 by family friend James Dorrian. Burn, a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey Hepburn, has died at the age of 97. Burn died Sept. 3 at his home near Porthmadog in north Wales after suffering a stroke, his friend James Dorrian said Monday Sept. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/James Dorrian. Ho)

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Houston Texans running back Arian Foster (23) breaks away in the fourth quarter from Indianapolis Colts safety Melvin Bullitt (33), en route to his second touchdown of the Texans' 34-24 home win over the Colts. (Associated Press)

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An emergency worker walks through an area of burned houses in San Bruno, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. On Thursday, a gas-line rupture caused a large explosion that killed at least four people and leveled dozens of houses. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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A fire truck drives past a house destroyed by the Fourmile Canyon fire in Sunshine Canyon, west of Boulder, Colo., on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Nurses attend to a newborn baby found in a garbage bag from an airplane on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, at Manila's international airport. A ground crew cleaning the just-landed Gulf Air plane from Bahrain found the child. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** In this photo taken Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, and released by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Koreans work in a field damaged by Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, in Sukchon Country, western North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

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Volunteers put up signs outside the evacuation center in San Bruno, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Fire crews doused the remnants of an enormous blaze and accounted for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through in a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people. (AP photo/Tony Avelar)

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Jim Rettew of the Red Cross talks with Gov. Bill Ritter at the Red Cross emergency shelter at the Boulder YMCA on Friday Sept. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Craig F. Walker - The Denver Post)

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Aerial view of damage caused by a massive fire in a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Fire crews tried to douse the remnants of an enormous blaze and account for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through in a neighborhood near San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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A massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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A massive fire is roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze, which started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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A helicopter drops water on a massive fire through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes the San Francisco suburb. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Two cars burned after a massive fire roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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A woman is treated by firemen after an explosion in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Several homes were destroyed as a massive fire roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno. (AP Photo/Mike Adaskaveg)

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A home for sale sign is shown in front of home that was destroyed after a massive fire that roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, left, listens as officials describe destruction following a gas explosion during a press conference in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Fire crews sprayed water on smoldering homes Friday morning after a massive explosion apparently triggered by a broken gas line sent flames roaring through a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people and injuring dozens, officials said.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Evacuees look for donated clothing at a Red Cross shelter in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, following a massive fire in their neighborhood on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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A volunteer, left, helps an evacuees who wished not to be identified, at a Red Cross shelter in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, after she was injured at her home that burned down during a massive fire in her neighborhood on Thursday. According to officials, the massive explosion was apparently triggered by a broken gas line that sent flames roaring through a neighborhood near San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Unidentified employees talk outside the scene of a workplace shooting at the Kraft Foods Inc. facility in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)