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This undated handout photo provided by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) shows a Delta crib. More than 2 million cribs from seven companies were recalled Thursday amid concerns that babies can suffocate, become trapped or fall from the cribs. (AP Photo/CPSC)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) shows a Delta crib. More than 2 million cribs from seven companies were recalled Thursday amid concerns that babies can suffocate, become trapped or fall from the cribs. (AP Photo/CPSC)
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People make their way back into an office building in Cleveland after an earthquake shook parts of Canada and the United States on Wednesday, June 23, 2010. The magnitude-5.0 temblor, which was centered on the Ontario-Quebec border, cracked plaster in Cleveland and caused buildings to sway gently in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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Family of victims of the 2009 Metro crash, Jordan McMillan, 20, son of Metro train operator Jeanice McMillan, left, and Tawanda Brown, mother of Lovonda "Nikki" King, touch a plaque in honor of the victims of the June 22, 2009 Metro crash, Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in Washington, during a memorial held by Metro on the first anniversary of the crash. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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U.S. District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman, who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry. (AP Photo/Office of U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman)
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In this file photo taken June 16, 2010, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, right, arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington. BP PLC said Wednesday, June 23, 2010, that Mr. Dudley has been appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the oil spill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)
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Workers walk along a line of barges anchored in Pass Abel on the coast of Louisiana near Grand Isle, La., Monday, June 21, 2010. When completed, the barges, which will be lined up end-to-end, are expected to serve as a barrier against oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from entering Barataria Bay. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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In this image made available by the Press Service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, ministry forces conduct house-to-house searches in an Uzbek area in the village of Nariman on the edge of the main southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday, June 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Press Service of the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry, Pool)
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A new wildfire burns at Shultz Pass between the San Francisco Peaks and Mount Elden on Sunday, June 20, 2010, in Flagstaff, Ariz. Several neighborhoods were evacuated because of the blaze. (AP Photo/Michele Legg)
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A plume of black smoke rises from behind houses in an area north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that was evacuated on Sunday, June 20, 2010, because of a wildfire. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
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In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency in North Korea and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo on Monday, June 21, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il gestures while meeting with miners at Pyeong-an puk-do, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Joan Woolley, a volunteer with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Oklahoma, reaches for a tray of lasagne from a portable oven as she and other volunteers prepare meals for the people of Galveston, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)
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A Forest Service helicopter drops water on a wildfire behind the Little America Hotel in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Sun, Rick Wacha)
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Chinese firemen evacuate a man trapped in the floods in Xiushui, in central China's Jiangxi province, on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Major rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said Sunday. (AP Photo)
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Presidential candidate Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia, lifts his brother's granddaughter Eva to cast his vote in the presidential election in Warsaw on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Poles are voting Sunday to choose Lech Kaczynski's successor. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
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The sun rises before the 5am start during the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, with The yacht "Bob" owned by BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, left, Saturday June 19, 2010, near Cowes, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. Spokeswoman Sheila Williams said Hayward took time off his duties handling the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico to see his boat participate in Saturday's race. (AP Photo/Chris Ison, PA)
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Relatives of a miner killed in a mine explosion, react while mourning him in Amaga, northwestern Colombia, Friday, June 18, 2010. Dozens of miners were trapped and feared dead after a fiery blast tore through a tunnel in a Colombian coal mine during a shift change, killing at least 16 workers. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)
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A man stands next to the coffins of four miners killed at a coal mine in Amaga, northwestern Colombia, Friday, June 18, 2010. Dozens of miners were trapped and feared dead after a fiery blast tore through a tunnel in a Colombian coal mine during a shift change, killing at least 16 workers. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The damaged vehicle belonging to Philadelphia Flyers hockey player Daniel Briere rests in the yard of a garage in Binghamton, N.Y., on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Briere and his 9-year-old son escaped serious injury in a collision early Thursday with a tractor-trailer near the New York-Pennsylvania state line, authorities said.
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver sits on the dock at Cotton Bayou in Orange Beach, Ala., Thursday, June 10, 2010. Shaver, a long time charter boat operator, is shutting down his inshore fishing business because of the gulf oil spill. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
