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Vehicles drive through dust on a gravel road in Williston, N.D., Saturday, May 3, 2014. Unpaved roads are essential to North Dakota's oil industry, but controlling the dust they produce can be difficult and expensive. (AP Photo/Josh Wood)
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A cloud of dust trails a semitrailer on an unpaved road in Williston, N.D., on Saturday, May 3, 2014. Unpaved roads are essential to North Dakota's oil industry, but controlling the dust they produce can be difficult and expensive. (AP Photo/Josh Wood)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY MAY 4 AND THEREAFTER - Staci Uhl, a Woodbury County public safety dispatcher, works at the Woodbury County Communications Center in Sioux City, Iowa, Monday, April 28, 2014. Uhl was named the Iowa's 2014 Telecommunicator of the Year on April 9 by the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials for her actions when Sioux City Police officer Kevin McCormick was shot last year. (AP Phoro/Sioux City Journal, Tim Hynds) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Crew members of the sunken ferry Sewol prepare to leave a court which issued their arrest warrant, in Mokpo, South Korea, Saturday, April 26, 2014. All 15 surviving crew members involved in the ferry’s navigation have been arrested, accused of negligence and failing to protect passengers. Prosecutors also detained three employees of the ferry owner who handled cargo, and have raided the offices of the ship owner, the shipping association and the register. Heads of the shipping association and the register offered to resign in the wake of the disaster. (AP Photo/Yonhap) KOREA OUT
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In this Wednesday, April 16, 2014 file photo, South Korean rescue helicopters fly over a South Korean passenger ship, trying to rescue passengers from the ship in water off the southern coast in South Korea. The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel. And it may have been more overloaded than ever on its final journey. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT
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FILE - In this April 16, 2014 file photo, South Korean coast guard officers try to rescue passengers from the Sewol ferry as it sinks in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea. The doomed ferry Sewol exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips - nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo - in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents that reveal the regulatory failures that allowed passengers by the hundreds to set off on an unsafe vessel. And it may have been more overloaded than ever on its final journey. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File) KOREA OUT