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Ordained minister Suzanne Watson, 54, seen in a Wake Forest medical library Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, is following a lifelong dream and studying medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, with the goal of becoming a psychiatrist. People most regret never having tried something they wanted to do in life, she said. (David Rolfe/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
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File - In this May 16, 2005, file photo, mountaineering shop worker Chris Stewart bicycles down a flooded Chapel Straight in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Al Golub, File)
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File - In this Jan. 5, 1997 file photo, Bill Stamps of Fresno, Calif., steps out of a washed-out section of roadway near Happy Isles Nature Center in Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park. (AP Photo/Scott Anger, File)
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In this Jan. 19, 1997 photo, a 150-foot section of Highway 140 at El Portal, west of Yosemite National Park, Calif., is washed out by the Merced River. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park.(John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP)
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File - In this Jan. 3, 1997, file photo, the Merced River appears to form a lake in Yosemite Valley from heavy rains which melted the snow pack in Yosemite National Park, Calif. A massive storm approaching Central California could overflow rivers, trigger rockslides and send trees falling onto powerlines, putting visitors on alert in Yosemite National Park, which flooded from a 1997 storm that temporarily closed the park. (Mark Crosse/The Fresno Bee via AP, File)
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In this still image taken from video provided by NASA, astronaut Peggy Whitson takes a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 6, 2016. Whitson and Commander Shane Kimbrough went spacewalking to hook up fancy new batteries on the International Space Station's sprawling power grid.(NASA via AP)
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Georgia guard Juwan Parker (3) attempts to block South Carolina Gamecocks guard Sindarius Thornwell (00) during an NCAA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Athens, Ga. South Carolina defeated Georgia 67-61. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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In this Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, a diver swims near a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)
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In this Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, a diver swims amongst a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)
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In this Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 photo, Conservation International's Luka Mossman, who restores and researches Native Hawaiian fishponds, walks along a barrier wall on Heeia fishpond in Kaneohe, Hawaii. As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Ocean. Some see the move toward aquaculture as a promising solution to overfishing and feeding a hungry planet. But critics say the industrial scale farms could do more harm than good to overall fish stocks and ocean health. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
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This Sept. 17, 2015, image made from video provided by NOAA Fisheries, shows a fish farm off the shore of Hawaii's Big Island near Kona. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific - a program similar to one recently implemented by NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico. The farms in the Gulf and the Pacific would be the only aquaculture operations in U.S. federal waters. (Paul B. Hillman/NOAA Fisheries via AP)
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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Swiftwater rescue team rescues a stranded man, left, from the waters in the Los Angeles River Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. A California storm has moved on from the soggy north to the desperately dry south, which has seen hardly a drop in recent weeks. Flash flood watches and warnings were issued for areas up and down the state, especially those where brushfires had denuded hillsides and mountain slopes. (Matt Hartman via AP)
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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department Swiftwater Rescue Team rescues a man, center, from flood waters in the Los Angeles River Thursday, Jan . 5, 2017. A California storm has moved on from the soggy north to the desperately dry south, which has seen hardly a drop in recent weeks. Flash flood watches and warnings were issued for areas up and down the state, especially those where brushfires had denuded hillsides and mountain slopes. (Matt Hartman via AP)
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Coast Guard and Los Angeles Fire Department rescue boats search the waters around the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area. A search-and-rescue operation at Los Angeles Harbor went through the night and continued Thursday despite rainy conditions, Petty Officer Sondra-Kay Kneen said. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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A rescue boat searches the waters around the Port of Los Angeles breakwater Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, morning in heavy fog after numerous cruise ship passengers reported seeing a helicopter go down in the area Wednesday night. Coast Guard officials searching the waters of Los Angeles Harbor say there's no sign of a two-person helicopter that went missing after taking off from an LA-area airport. (Chuck Bennett/The Daily Breeze via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
