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In this photo taken July 5, 2010, in Chicago, Bazelais Suy waits for his flight at O'Hare International Airport to return to his native Haiti. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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In this July 5, 2010 picture, Bazelais Suy shakes hands with a police officer as he arrives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at the Toussaint Louverture airport. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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In this July 5, 2010 picture, Bazelais Suy, right, embraces nurse Rosite Merentie as he talks with friends in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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In this July 6, 2010 photo, Bazelais Suy, center, talks with Dr. Dan Ivankovich, right, at Suy's new apartment in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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In this July 6, 2010 photo, Bazelais Suy, center, cries in front of his cakes during his birthday party in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke as seen from Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The volcano shot volcanic ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

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Smoke from a wildfire that broke out on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010, fills the sky in the mountains between Four Mile Canyon and Left Hand Canyon northwest of Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Denver Post, Kathryn Scott Osler)

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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Monday, Sept. 06, 2010, at 10:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds associated with Tropical Storm Hermine spinning in the western Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

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A worker carries a piece of wreckage as federal investigators and local officials scour Holy Cross Cemetery in Butte, Mont., in March 2009 after a small plane crashed there, leaving 14 dead. (Associated Press)

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A sluice box containing mercury, used in the filtration process, operates at a gold mine near Nieuw Koffiekamp. The World Wildlife Fund estimates the small-scale mining is responsible for some 20 tons of mercury entering the environment and posing a risk to people through fish consumption. (Associated Press)

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A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 13 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The area was hit on Saturday by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads, twisted rail lines and ripped a new 11-foot-wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

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People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Pan-American Highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo)

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A young skateboarder takes advantage of a warped road in Paiapoi, 12 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The Christchurch area was struck on Saturday by a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads, twisted rail lines and ripped a new 11-foot-wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

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Smoke rises from the crash site of a UPS Boeing 747 cargo plane in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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U.S. Army soldiers secure a road at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. At least three people were killed and 11 wounded in the car-bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy, according to local hospitals. NATO said there were no injuries to coalition forces or damage to their vehicles. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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FILE - In a March 10, 2003 file photo,Dr. Thomas Butler leaves the Mahon Federal Building in Lubbock, Texas, after a federal judge sentenced him to 24 months in federal prison, fined $15,000, and ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution after Butler's report of missing plague-causing bacteria caused a bioterrorism scare. A senior law enforcement official said Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 that officials decided to shut down much of Miami International Airport Thursday after a database showed Butler, a scientist with a suspicious item in his luggage, had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague. (AP Photo / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Jim Watkins, File)

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A passer-by walks past a store-front window featuring a placard depicting Hurricane Earl, in Chatham, Mass., Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Some shops in the town have boarded their windows in anticipation of the storm. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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People stand outside a building damaged by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in central Christchurch, New Zealand, early Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries, but looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander)

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In this image from video, a car lies under fallen rubble in Christchurch, New Zealand after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday, Sept 4, 2010. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries, but looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. The quake, which hit 19 miles (30 kilometers) west of the southern city of Christchurch, shook a wide area. (AP Photo/ TVNZ)