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FILE - This Feb. 19. 2010 file photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station with Earth's horizon as a backdrop. Several power systems have been shut down aboard the International Space Station after a cooling system malfunctioned. NASA says in a posting on its website that one of two cooling loops aboard the space station was shut down Saturday, July 31, 2010. A module that pumps ammonia coolant to prevent equipment from overheating was still shut down early Sunday, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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Mr. Sagbo speaks to constituents in his district. He promises to revive the impoverished, garbage-strewn town where he has lived for 21 years and raised a family. His plans include reducing rampant drug addiction, cleaning up a polluted lake and delivering heating to homes.
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** FILE ** Earth's horizon is a backdrop for the International Space Station, photographed in February 2010. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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An oil containment boom is laid out in the waters of Treasure Pass near Yscloskey, La., on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Onshore, BP, Halliburton and Transocean are engaging in a billion-dollar blame game over the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. At sea, they're depending on one another finally to plug the environmental disaster. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)
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A woman sits outside her house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Workers remove boom from Mobile Bay south of Fowl River, Ala., Friday, July 30, 2010. Boom is being removed in preparation for the height of hurricane season. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Mike Kittrell)
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Workers remove boom from Mobile Bay south of Fowl River, Ala., Friday, July 30, 2010. Boom is being removed in preparation for the height of hurricane season. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Mike Kittrell)
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Graphic shows counties in eight southern states involved in the federal Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative;
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Migratory birds hunt for food on a partially flooded crawfish farm owned by Grantt Guillory near Opelousas, La., on July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
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Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department urban search and rescue team survey damage after a suspected natural gas explosion at a welding shop collapsed part of the building hurling two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Friday, July 30, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
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Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department survey damage from a nearby rooftop after a suspected natural gas explosion at a welding shop collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Friday, July 30, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
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Members of the Los Angeles Fire Department urban search and rescue team survey damage after a suspected natural gas explosion at a welding shop collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Friday, July 30, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)
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President Barack Obama steps out of a Jeep Grand Cherokee during his tour of the Jefferson North Chrysler Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. The is plant is where the Cherokee is assembled. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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President Barack Obama addresses employees at the Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Pakistani villagers struggle to move to a safe place from a flood hit village near Nowshera, Pakistan, on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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In this picture taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Pakistani villagers wade through flooded area caused by heavy monsoon rain in a village outskirt of Bannu, Pakistan. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)
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In this picture taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, a Pakistani family flees a flooded village, on the outskirts of Bannu, Pakistan. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in the most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)
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A Pakistani gypsy family look out over a flooded water pool after heavy monsoon rain in Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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Pakistani villagers move into safe place from a flooded village near Nowshera, Pakistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
