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National Edition News cover for July 4, 2014 - Perry shows ‘less secure’ border to lawmakers: Texas. Gov. Rick Perry shakes hands with Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sgt. Johnny Hernandez after touring the McAllen Border Patrol station with Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw on Monday June 23, 2014, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

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**FILE** Shirley Ristau (right) coaches Johanna O'Neill (center) through a balance obstacle course while O'Neill's sister, Mary O'Neill (left), looks on during a fall prevention demonstration class at the Manchester Senior Center in Manchester, Conn., on April 25, 2007. As deaths from fall-related injuries have skyrocketed nationwide, officials from several states, universities and hospitals are doing more help elderly people avoid falling. (Associated Press)

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Things have been dead around here since the new road went in. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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In this Sept. 24, 2012 file photo shows a couple parasailing off Miami Beach, Fla. Parasailing is risky and should be better regulated by the Coast Guard and other entitites, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report issued Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Tony Winton, File)