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Passengers wait to be re-screened due to a security breach at Terminal 8 of JFK airport in New York on Jan. 16, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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The first of three KLM passenger planes headed toward New York takes off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday April 19, 2010. European transport officials have carved up the sky, creating three zones to break the flight deadlock caused by a cloud of volcanic ash flowing from Iceland over Europe. France said Monday that European countries can resume airline traffic in designated "caution zones" where the threat of ash is considered less dangerous. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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** FILE ** In this July 30, 2009, file photo, patients wait in the emergency room at Cook County Hospital, one of Chicago's safety net hospitals. A private trade group said Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, its measure of the U.S. service sector grew in September for the first time in 13 months. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty, file)
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People celebrate Mass under a tent next to an earthquake destroyed home in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 21, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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** FILE ** A Staten Island ferry docks at the Manhattan terminal in New York on Sunday, May 9, 2010. The Staten Island ferry that malfunctioned and smashed into a pier, tossing passengers to the deck, has been idled while federal and local officials try to figure out what went wrong. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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US Airways planes are seen at Reagan National Airport near Washington in December 2009. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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The McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., handles flights for Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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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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** FILE ** In this Oct. 11, 2001, file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool)
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Troy Newman, left, president of Operation Rescue, prays during a memorial for abortion deaths at Operation Rescue's headquarters Saturday, June 20, 2009, in Wichita, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **
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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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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 ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)
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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 **