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Pakistani flood survivors jostle for a sack of flour distributed by volunteers Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani flood victims fight with each others for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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A Pakistani flood survivor floats his mother to safer area Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani army soldiers rescue villagers from flooded areas Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood survivors return to their village devastated by heavy floods in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

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In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's helicopter flies over the flood waters in the Province of Punjab, near the city of Multan in Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan after surveying the devastation and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Echneider)

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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)