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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2012 file photo, a man makes a picture of "Fuleco" the 2014 World Cup mascot, in Brasilia, Brazil. An environmental group in Brazil launched on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, an effort to save the endangered three-banded armadillo, the mascot for the international soccer tournament that starts next month in Brazil. The group hopes the fact that the endangered armadillo is the Cup mascot, will help society and government become more aware of the importance of saving the armadillo and its natural habitat from extinction. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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Houses are pictured in the foothills Monday, May 19, 2014, several miles from a wildfire burning to the west in the Mount Rose Wilderness Area along the Sierra's eastern front in Reno, Nev. Firefighters got the upper hand on the blaze Monday and no homes were threatened.In the background are trees recovering from a previous fire that burned much closer to houses in the Hunter Lake area. (AP Photo/By Scott Sonner).
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Houses are pictured in the foothills Monday, May 19, 2014, several miles from a wildfire burning to the west in the Mount Rose Wilderness Area along the Sierra's eastern front in Reno, Nev. Firefighters got the upper hand on the blaze Monday and no homes were threatened.In the background are trees recovering from a previous fire that burned much closer to houses in the Hunter Lake area. (AP Photo/By Scott Sonner).
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A Bosnian worker and members of the Bosnian military prepare to take away dead cows from a farm near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac along river Sava, 200 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard. With the rainfall stopping and temperatures rising, the withdrawing floodwaters revealed a harrowing sight: thousands of dead cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and other animals that were left behind after their panicked owners fled rapidly advancing torrents. .(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Bosnian worker prepares to take away dead cows from a farm near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac along river Sava, 200 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard. With the rainfall stopping and temperatures rising, the withdrawing floodwaters revealed a harrowing sight: thousands of dead cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and other animals that were left behind after their panicked owners fled rapidly advancing torrents. .(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Bosnian worker prepares to take away dead cows from a farm near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac along river Sava, 200 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard. With the rainfall stopping and temperatures rising, the withdrawing floodwaters revealed a harrowing sight: thousands of dead cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and other animals that were left behind after their panicked owners fled rapidly advancing torrents. .(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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Bosnian workers prepare to take away dead cows from a farm near the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac along river Sava, 200 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard. With the rainfall stopping and temperatures rising, the withdrawing floodwaters revealed a harrowing sight: thousands of dead cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and other animals that were left behind after their panicked owners fled rapidly advancing torrents. .(AP Photo/Amel Emric)
