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**FILE** An Amber Alert app is seen on the cell phone of Capt. Greg Gerrero of the California Highway Patrol in Sacramento, Calif., on Jan. 31, 2013. A new national Amber Alert system will automatically send alerts to millions of cell phones when an alert is issued in their area. The alerts are automatically active on most new phones and users will have to opt out if they do not wish to receive them. (Associated Press)
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New Hampshire Fish and Game Department's Marine Division Chief, Doug Grout, listens to the discussion during the a New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. The council met to decide 2013 limits on stocks including cod on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine. (AP photo/Portsmouth Herald, Ioanna Raptis)
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In this photo released by Korea Aerospace Research Institute, South Korea's rocket lifts off from its launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. South Korea says it has successfully launched a satellite into orbit from its own soil for the first time. (AP Photo/Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Luna, a beagle, is tied to a tree near her makeshift house at an evacuee center, Thursday, March 24, 2011, in Fukushima, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Japan, famous for drilling its citizens on how to prepare for all manner of natural disasters, has done far less to prepare those who live near its many nuclear reactors for emergencies. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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South Korea's rocket lifts off from its launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Sang-hak)
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A child laughs as she passes by a smog-shrouded residential district in Beijing on Jan. 29, 2013. Extremely high pollution levels shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks, forcing airlines in Beijing and elsewhere to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting government warnings for residents to stay indoors. (Associated Press)