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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)
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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)
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver cleans his sunglasses after pressure washing the oil off his boat 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)
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver sits on the back of his pickup truck at his home in Orange Beach, Ala., and tries to decide if he's going hunting 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)
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver and his wife are surrounded by bills as they study their computer at their Orange Beach, Ala., home 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)
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver works on his boat at Cotton Bayou in Orange Beach, Ala., Wednesday, June 9, 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)
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver works on a reel at his son's bait shop 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)
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Boat captain Brent "Hollywood" Shaver scrubs the oil off his boat as he works on it in 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)
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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)
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Josette Ranpont cleans her home in Draguignan, France, on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 after flash floods hit southeastern France. Regional authorities say more than a dozen people have been killed and many are missing in the aftermath of the floods, which followed powerful rainstorms. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
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BP CEO Tony Hayward is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, prior to before testifying before the Energy and Environment subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee regarding BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 17, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
