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North Korean defectors shout slogans as police officers block their planned rally on a road in Paju, near Demilitarized Zone, in South Korea, on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea has banned activists from launching propaganda leaflets to North Korea after the North threatened to attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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North Korean defector Park Sang-hak hurls anti-North Korea leaflets as police block his planned rally on a road in Paju, near the Demilitarized Zone, in South Korea on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea banned activists from launching the propaganda leaflets to North Korea after the North threatened to attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Members of the next expedition to the International Space Station — (from left) U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Evgeny Tarelkin — stand in front of St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. The three are scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrom on a Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon toward Syrian army positions in the Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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North Korean defectors shout slogans as police block their planned rally on a road in Paju, South Korea, near the Demilitarized Zone, on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The activists launched balloons with anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to the North despite a ban by the South Korean government. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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**FILE** Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are joined by state and local officials March 22, 2011, as they announce the next phase of high-speed rail construction during a news conference at an Amtrak maintenance building in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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Lebanese firefighters extinguish burning cars at the scene of a car bomb explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh in Beirut on Oct. 19, 2012. The bomb killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in the worst blast the city has seen in years, officials said. (Associated Press)

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Lebanese soldiers inspect damaged buildings at the scene of an explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh in Beirut on Oct. 19, 2012. The bomb killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in the worst blast the city has seen in years, officials said. (Associated Press)

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Lebanese firefighters extinguish burning cars at the scene of a car bomb explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh in Beirut on Oct. 19, 2012. The bomb killed at least eight people and wounded dozens in the worst blast the city has seen in years, officials said. (Associated Press)