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A woman washes clothes in floodwaters at her collapsed house in Camp Karoona village near Nowshera, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Pakistan's impoverished northwest has been wracked by the worst floods in the country's history, a disaster that has claimed some 1,100 lives, wiped out whole villages and left families clinging to the tops of collapsed houses in the hope of being rescued. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, right, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, talks with a flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)
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Little flood survivors sit in a makeshift tent set up on the mid section of a main highway in Kamp Koroona village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. The government has deployed thousands of soldiers and civilian rescue workers to save people trapped by the floodwaters, distribute food and collect the bodies of the dead. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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People carry their belongings to shift them to higher place through floodwater caused by heavy monsoon rains in Kamp Koroona village near Nowshera, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Pakistan's impoverished northwest has been wracked by the worst floods in the country's history, a disaster that has claimed some 1,100 lives, wiped out whole villages and left families clinging to the tops of collapsed houses in the hope of being rescued. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, right, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, talks with a flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)
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FILE - This Feb. 19. 2010 file photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with Earth's horizon as a backdrop. Several power systems have been shut down aboard the International Space Station after a cooling system malfunctioned. NASA says in a posting on its website that one of two cooling loops aboard the space station was shut down Saturday, July 31, 2010. A module that pumps ammonia coolant to prevent equipment from overheating was still shut down early Sunday, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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** FILE ** A Conair waterbomber flies past a wildfire burning out of control after dropping fire retardant on the other side of the mountain in Kelowna, British Columbia, on July 20, 2009. A waterbomber similar to the one pictured crashed on Saturday, July 31, 2010, while fighting a wildfire in the British Columbia interior. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)
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** FILE ** Earth's horizon is a backdrop for the International Space Station, photographed in February 2010. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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An oil containment boom is laid out in the waters of Treasure Pass near Yscloskey, La., on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Onshore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they're depending on one another finally to plug the environmental disaster. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)
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An aerial view shows houses submerged in water because of heavy flooding in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. More than 1,100 people have died as rescuers struggle to reach marooned victims and some evacuees show signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)
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FILE-This July 10, 2010 file photo shows director Spike Lee entering Cipriani's for the wedding of Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vasquez, in New York. Lee has screened his new four-hour documentary on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him. The director showed "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise" at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego on Saturday July 31, 2010. It airs in August on HBO. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano,File)
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Pakistani children sit on a bed to eat their food in a flood hit area of Qasim Bella, on the outskirts of Multan, Pakistan, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. The death toll in the massive flooding in Pakistan surged past 800 as floodwaters receded Saturday in the hard-hit northwest, an official said. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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A woman sits outside her house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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People light earth lamps in memory of passengers who lost their lives in a plane crash near Islamabad, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday, July 30, 2010. The Airbus A321 operated by local carrier Airblue crashed into hills overlooking the country's capital, Islamabad, during stormy, monsoon weather, killing all 152 people on board. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Migratory birds hunt for food on a partially flooded crawfish farm owned by Grantt Guillory near Opelousas, La., on July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
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Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department urban search and rescue team survey damage after a suspected natural gas explosion at a welding shop collapsed part of the building hurling two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Friday, July 30, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
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Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters are shown at a building site where a suspected natural gas explosion occurred Friday, July 30, 2010 in Los Angeles. The explosion collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, fire officials said. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Daniel Ibarra, left, gestures while speaking about a suspected natural gas explosion Friday July 30, 2010 in Los Angeles. The explosion collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, fire officials said. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department survey damage from a nearby rooftop after a suspected natural gas explosion at a welding shop collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Friday, July 30, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
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A Los Angeles firefighter walks past a building where an apparent natural gas explosion occurred on Friday July 30, 2010 in Los Angeles. The explosion collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, fire officials said. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
