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Workers search the debris of a collapsed five-story shopping center in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Thompson)

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**FILE** A worker fixes a solar panel Nov. 10, 2011, at a factory in Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province. (Associated Press/Xinhua, Liang Xiaopeng)

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Bill Klipp of Florida works on cleaning out his father's flood-damaged home on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Brick, N.J. The city is ordering mandatory evacuations in advance of an approaching nor'easter and in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Denzel Washington as pilot Whip Whitaker in “Flight” manages to make an emergency landing of his aircraft despite being hung-over, drunk and coked-up. (Paramount Pictures via Associated Press)

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A resident in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., walks to the Atlantic Highlands Emergency Services Building to vote Nov. 6, 2012, as power outages from superstorm Sandy forced the town to condense all the districts into one location. (Associated Press)

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Guest host Bruno Mars performs on "Saturday Night Live" in New York on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/NBC, Dana Edelson)

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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, at 1:45 a.m. EST shows a low pressure system over the lower Mississippi Valley with areas of thunderstorms over the northern Gulf of Mexico and rain over the southeastern United States. Fair weather is seen across the Northeast and Great Lakes. A cold front in the Western Atlantic has associated thunderstorm activity. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

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Dwight Bowman is national vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees. (American Federation of Government Employees)

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People sort through donated clothes at an aid station in Staten Island, New York. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance after Superstorm Sandy, but finding enough long-term housing could be problematic. (Associated Press)

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Danny Boyle, artistic director of the London Olympics’ opening ceremony, is arguing that a Henry Moore sculpture should be erected in Olympic Park. (Associated Press)