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This image provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shows Hurricane Earl at 12:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. As of Wednesday night, Earl was a powerful Category 4 hurricane centered more than 520 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., with winds of 140 mph. (AP Photo/NASA)
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FILE - In a Nov. 21, 2009, file photo, Miami running back Damien Berry gestures as he walks off the field after an NCAA college football game against Duke in Miami. Berry and A.J. Highsmith are doing more than trying to uphold Miami's long tradition when they play for the 13th-ranked Hurricanes. They're trying to uphold the legacy of their respective fathers--both former Hurricanes standouts--as well. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
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New vehicle window sticker proposed by Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation
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A surfer rides the waves in Buxton, N.C., as Hurricane Earl approaches on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A tourist evacuation of Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island is under way as the storm heads toward North Carolina's Outer Banks. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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The house in Bakersfield, Calif., where emergency personnel discovered the body of a woman that had died inside the chimney on Aug. 30, 2010. (AP photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Henry A. Barrios)
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A Pakistani girl waits for relief goods along a road in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.(AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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This image provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shows Hurricane Earl (lower right) at 1 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. At 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday the center of the storm was located about 910 miles south-southeast of Wilmington, N.C. The Category 4 hurricane was moving northwest at 15 mph with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph. (AP Photo/NASA)
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Pakistani flood survivors look into a tent to get relief in a camp set up for displaced people in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. (Associated Press)
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TENT CITY: Pakistani families gather to get the evening meal from a food-distribution point in a camp for flood-affected people in Sukkur, Pakistan, on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Visitors to Gettysburg one day will be able to pay respects to the last two troops who died on the battlefied. As the 95th anniversary approaches, Gettysburg-area residents and the Gettysburg Battlefield Detachment of the Marine Corps League are working to establish a memorial to honor Marine Corps Capt. George Hamilton and Gunnery Sgt. George Martin, who died in a plane crash on the battlefield during training maneuvers in June 1922. (Associated Press/File)
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Floodwaters from a nearby river surround a house after heavy rains from Hurricane Earl hammered Potters Village, on the outskirts of St. John's, Antigua, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Johnny Jno-Baptiste)
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A Slovakian policewoman secures the building where a man identified by authorities as 48-year-old Lubomir Harman opened fire, killing six people and wounding more than a dozen in a Bratislava suburb on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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A man is led off of a plane at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Monday. Two passengers were held in Amsterdam for questioning after security scanning revealed suspicious luggage. (Associated Press)
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Men work on a new drill to be used in the rescue operation of 33 trapped miners at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Felix Alonso)
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The top of a palm tree lies beside the road after being blown off by winds from the approaching Hurricane Earl in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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Hurricane Earl passes over the Leeward Islands on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in this image from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (AP Photo/NASA)
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The "burning man" goes up in flames in Blackrock City, Nev., the home of the Burning Man event. The arts-themed festival, held every year during the week before Labor Day and over that holiday weekend, attracts about 50,000 participants. (The Washington Times)
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Workers stand by a new drill that will be used to rescue 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, on Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
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Mount Sinabung, near Karo on North Sumatra in Indonesia, erupted for the second day in a row Monday, spewing out towering clouds of ash and forcing the evacuation of more than 30,000 people. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama, speaking at Xavier University in New Orleans on Sunday, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, lauded the recovery there, but acknowledged that the recession and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have made it even tougher to bounce back. He pledged that his administration will continue assisting the storm-damaged region.
