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This undated handout photo provided by Samantha Joye, UGA Department of Marine Sciences, shows a layer of oil on a sediment core. Researchers are finding oil dripping "all over the place" on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, some as much as two inches thick. A University of Georgia scientific cruise is collecting at least ten instances of what appears to be fresh oil on the sea floor emanating out from the site of BP oil rig disaster. (AP Photo/Samantha Joye)
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A slurry bomber drops retardant on a burning ridge as the sun sets behind it as a wildfire burns west of Loveland, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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A helicopter flies over the Flatiron fire burning northwest of Loveland, Colo., Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Fire officials are telling residents near Flatiron Reservoir and Carter Lake to leave their homes and evacuate to Loveland in northern Colorado because of a 30-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/The Coloradoan, Dawn Madura)
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A door bell on a gate post was the only thing that survived a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Some homeowners were allowed to return to their property on Sunday for the first time since the fire began on Labor Day. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Walter Plywaski, 81, bends a piece of pipe found in the ashes of his home west of Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Plywaski lost his house and a cabin the the wildfire that destroyed 169 homes. He returned to the property for the first time since the fire began on Labor Day. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Smoke raises in the air from a wildland fire as seen from Highway 257 near the town of Johnstown, Colo., Sunday Sept. 12, 2010. Fire officials are telling residents near Flatiron Reservoir and Carter Lake to leave their homes and evacuate to Loveland in northern Colorado because of a 30-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/The Greeley Tribune, Jim Rydbom)
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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)