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Pakistani villagers chase relief supplies dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani villagers approach to pick up food packets dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani displaced families spend time around their tents at a camp set up for flood survivors in Razzakabad on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Emergency workers look at an off-highway vehicle that lost control and barreled into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at the California 200 off-road race at Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area near Lucerne Valley, Calif. Eight people were killed and 12 wounded, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kris Reilly, Victor Valley Daily Press)
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A Boeing 737 operated by the Colombian airline Aires crashed on landing at San Andres Island after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, one passenger died. (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)
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Workers push an overturned off-road truck upright after its driver lost control and ran into spectators during a race in Lucerne Valley, Calif., on Saturday. At least eight people reportedly were killed in the accident. (Associated Press)
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Yellow crime-scene tape stretches across windows that were broken in a train terminal across the street from the scene of a fatal multiple shooting outside the City Grill bar and restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) introduces Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the members of his delegation at the prime minister's house in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Mr. Ban traveled to flood-ravaged Pakistan to boost relief efforts as the 20 million people made homeless in one of the worst disasters to hit the country grow increasingly desperate. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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Emergency workers look at an off-highway vehicle that lost control and barreled into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, during the California 200 off-road race at Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area near Lucerne Valley, Calif. Eight people were killed and 12 injured, authorities say. (AP Photo/Kris Reilly, Victor Valley Daily Press)
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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2005 file photo, Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln performs during Jazz at Lincoln Center's Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, in New York.The jazz singer and songwriter Abbey Lincoln has died in New York at age 80. Known for her independent and uncompromising style, Lincoln made records and acted in films in the 1950s and '60s, then saw her career surge again in the 1990s when she found herself as a songwriter. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)
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Pakistani flood affected villagers sit in the rubble of their houses, in Aza Kheil near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Firefighters clean a a shot out window at the scene of a multiple fatal shooting near City Grill in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
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Residents of camps set up for people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake demonstrate in front of the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010. Demonstrators said the government is failing on its promises to provide housing as private landowners pressure the camp residents to leave. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Construction cranes tower above One World Trade Center, Friday, August 13, 2010 in New York. A mosque would be part of a proposed $100 million Islamic center two blocks from where nearly 3,000 people perished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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A Russian Emergency Ministry Ka-32 helicopter spews water onto a burning a forest in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug 13, 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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A firefighter battling a fire in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug 13, 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, unload water, as they try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
