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Pakistanis displaced by floods struggle for milk during an aid distribution at a temporary camp in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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Pakistani flood victims fight over relief supplies taken from a truck carrying goods for distribution in Nowshera near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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John David Thiry, a homeless man, has been arrested and is facing charges related to a wildfire that destroyed 11 houses in Ashland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jackson County [Ore.] Sheriff's Department)
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Firefighters pour water on a wildfire that consumed 11 homes and damaged three others in the Oak Knoll neighborhood of Ashland, Ore., on Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Bob Pennell, the Mail Tribune)
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A sick Pakistani's bed sits outside Tuesday for lack of room at a rural health center in a flood-affected district of Punjab province. Hundreds of health facilities have been damaged by flooding. (Associated Press)
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Suzie, a 56-year-old chimpanzee, holds her newborn at Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kan., on Tuesday. The female chimp who has not been named, was born last Wednesday. (Manhattan Mercury via Associated Press)
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Gulf shrimp sits for sale with other seafood at the Hapuku Fish Shop in California. Manager Shawn Mattiuz says though many customers question the safety of Gulf seafood, he is selling about the same amount as he did before the spill. (Associated Press)
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In this December 2009 photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a Henan Airlines plane, reported by Xinhua to be the same model of aircraft that crashed Tuesday at an airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, lands near Xiaoshan airport in Zhejiang province. (AP Photo/Xinhua)
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In this cell phone photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, rescuers work at the site of a reported plane crash at an airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Aug. 24, 2010. According to Xinhua, the plane overshot the runway in Yichun city and burst into flames. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani flood victims line up for food in a camp set up for displaced people in Nowshera, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Recovering from the devastating floods still battering Pakistan will take at least three years, President Asif Ali Zardari said Monday, as the waters swept south after leaving millions homeless and submerging millions of acres of farmland. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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A false color satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Danielle at right at 6:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. Hurricane Danille, about 1110 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, has strengthened to a category 2 storm. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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Nepalese soldiers carry the remains of plane crash victims in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday near Shikharpur village, about 50 miles south of Katmandu, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
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In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, a driver takes a nap under his truck jammed on an entrance ramp to the Beijing-Tibet Highway in Guoleizhuang township, in north China's Hebei province. The massive traffic jam that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, truck drivers play cards in the shade of a truck jammed on an entrance ramp to the Beijing-Tibet Highway in Guoleizhuang township, in north China's Hebei province. The massive traffic jam that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, a truck driver washes himself after waiting over two days in the jam on an entrance ramp to the Beijing-Tibet Highway in Zhangbei county, in north China's Hebei province. The massive traffic jam that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.
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A cleaner picks up waste on the roadside of a jammed section of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway in Huailai, in north China's Hebei province, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. The massive traffic jam that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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FILE - In this file photo of May 15, 2003 Romanian patients sit on their beds in the city hospital in Odobesti, northern Romania. No sutures and other basics; a dire shortage of staff; catastrophic hygiene; then this _ a hospital blaze that killed five premature babies. Romania's hospital system is on the ropes. Romania's hospitals were a nightmare under communism which ended in 1989. But more than two decades after communist rule was toppled and almost four years after it joined the EU, Romania remains one of Europe's poorest countries _ and the sorry state of its hospitals reflect that status. (AP Photo/Karina Knapek, File)
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Neil Cramond, BP's Gulf of Mexico marine authority, testifies Monday during hearings into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting oil spill in the Gulf. (AP Photo/Melissa Phillip, Pool)
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Entertainer Jay Leno jokes with Rich Westfall, right and hidden by oversized check, president of Gulf Coast Community Foundation about the money raised by Leno's one-night, one-show only benefit concert at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Miss., Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, for Mississippi oil spill victims. Leno said after looking at the over $90,000 collected in ticket sales, that he would contribute $10,000 to raise the amount to $100,000. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
