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** FILE ** A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 arrives at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore., on Monday, July 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersman updates the media during a press conference in Hoboken, N.J., Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. The plane that collided with a helicopter and crashed in the Hudson River near Hoboken is still under water. Divers hope to recover the plane on Monday, but their first priority is to recover the bodies of two remaining victims of the air collision that killed nine people, a chief investigator said. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
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Rescue worker searches area around wreckage of a commercial helicopter that crashed Thursday night, July 23, 2009, on Interstate 70 in western Maryland. Officials said four people in the helicopter were killed. (AP Photo/Hagerstown Herald-Mail, Kevin G. Gilbert)
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South Koreans watch a television screen showing undated file footage of a South Korean Navy ship near the disputed waters off South Korea's west coast, at a railway station in Seoul on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South Korean military officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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** FILE ** Rescue workers remove bodies from the wreckage after two Metro trains collided near the Fort Totten station in June 2009. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Passengers fill the terminal after a security breach shut down Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night. Flights were grounded and passengers were rescreened, an air safety official said. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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A man looks at a broken section of Iceland's main coastal ring road near Reykjavik on after a volcanic eruption caused ice to melt and river levels to rise by up to 10 feet. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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A volounteer lays down flowers in front of the President Palace two days after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash, in Warsaw, Monday, April 12, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in dense fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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** FILE ** Investigators work at the site of the Polish presidential plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, on Monday, April 12, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died along with dozens of others when the plane went down as it came in for a landing in thick fog. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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** FILE ** Trainer Dawn Brancheau poses while performing at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., in 2005. Ms. Brancheau was killed in an accident with a killer whale in 2010. (Associated Press/Orlando Sentinel, Julie Fletcher)
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A Red Line train passes through the Farragut North Metro station in Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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**FILE** Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 were evacuated after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Christmas Day in 2009. Officials accused a Nigerian aboard, identified as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, of trying to ignite an explosive device in his underwear. Northwest merged with Delta Air Lines in 2008. (Associated Press)
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Former U.N. driver Jean Berchimas Rwagitinywa, a Tutsi, shows journalists the courtyard of a home in Kigali, Rwanda, where nine people were killed in the 1994 massacre. He escaped by jumping over a fence. (Associated Press)
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This artist rendering shows NASA's next generation of moon rockets being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Preliminary work on two Ares spacecraft has already cost NASA $7 billion.
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NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, known as Eddie, was an ace pilot in World Wars I and II.
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Associated Press Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash on Dec. 31, 1972, while trying to deliver relief supplies to Nicaragua.
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associated press Snow-covered traffic lights caused a fatal accident during a snowstorm in Oswego, Ill., in April. The problem stemmed from replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient ones, which aren't hot enough to melt the snow.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Bo Burns (above and below) works at K&B Timberworks Inc., a recently reopened mill in Reserve, N.M., which was without one after 1990. The owner says the mill's future depends on federal contracts to thin forestland for wildfire prevention, funded in part by a federal timber law that has been extended beyond its original intent of helping communities hard hit by environmental restrictions on logging.
