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Bird rehab specialist David Lane carries a brown pelican rescued from the oil of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to a cage at the Ft. Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, La. Friday, July 23, 2010. About 280 pelicans, laughing gulls, herons, egrets, spoonbills, gannets and oyster catchers were being moved from the projected path of Tropical Storm Bonnie to a new facility in Hammond, La., more than 100 miles north. (AP Photo/Chuck Cook, Pool)

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This image provided by NOAA taken late Thursday, July 22, 2010, shows Tropical Storm Bonnie as she steamed through the central Bahamas while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. On Friday, the center of Bonnie was expected to pass near or over the Florida Keys and part of the southern Florida peninsula. (AP photo/NOAA)

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DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY The Falcon HTV-2, an experimental space plane, disintegrated and burned up nine minutes into what was supposed to be a 30-minute test flight in April. The plane is a key element of U.S. efforts to develop a conventional weapon that can strike quickly anywhere in the world.

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** FILE ** Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander, is the federal government's point man for the BP oil-well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo)

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California Highway Patrol officers investigate a Greyhound bus crash on Highway 99 in Fresno, Calif., that killed at least six people and injured many others on Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

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A crane begins to pull a Greyhound Bus that crashed and killed at least six people and injured many others on Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

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A California Highway Patrol investigator retrieves a handbag from the wreckage of the fatal Greyhound bus accident in which at least six people were killed and others injured on Thursday, July 22, 2010, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, John Walker)

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California Highway Patrol investigators work at the scene of the fatal Greyhound bus accident in which at least six people were killed and others injured Thursday, July 22, 2010, in Fresno, Calif. A Greyhound bus traveling to Sacramento from Los Angeles crashed on a highway in California's Central Valley early Thursday morning. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, John Walker)

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A CHP officer investigates a Greyhound Bus crash that killed at least six people and injured many others on Thursday, July 22, 2010, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

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California Highway Patrol investigators look over seats from a fatal Greyhound bus accident in Fresno, Calif. on Thursday, July 22, 2010, in which at least six people were killed and others injured. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, John Walker)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, and released by Greenpeace, a villager displays his hand coated in crude oil during cleanup efforts almost a week after a pipeline, owned by China Nation Petroleum Corp., exploded in Nanhaitun, Weitang Bay, China. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts, marred by the drowning death of a worker, continued over 165 square mile stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)

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In this Tuesday, July 20, 2010 photo, the surface of a beach is covered by the spilled crude oil in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning province. The oil had spread over water since a pipeline at the busy northeastern port exploded, hurting oil shipments from part of China's strategic oil reserves to the rest of the country. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang)

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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, workers move a bag on the beach polluted by crude oil after a pipeline explosion in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after the explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, workers clean and collect crude oil near a polluted beach after a pipeline explosion in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, released by Greenpeace, mollusks are seen coated in crude oil, at the Guotai Water Products Farm, less than a mile away from the site of an oil spill, at Xingang Port in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts, marred by the drowning death of a worker, continued over 165 square mile stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)

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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, and released by Greenpeace on July 22, 2010, an employee scoops up dead snails at the Guotai Water Products Farm, less than a mile away from the site of the oil spill at Xingang Port in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts, marred by the drowning death of a worker, continued over 165 square mile stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)