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Japanese Air Self-Defense Force loadmasters and trained spotters scan the ocean aboard a C130 aircraft while it flies over the southern search area in the southeastern Indian Ocean, 200 to 300 kilometers (124 to 186 miles) south of Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes scoured a remote patch of the Indian Ocean but came back empty-handed Friday after looking for any sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, another disappointing day in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
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Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Capt. Junichi Tanoue, left, co-pilot Ryutaro Hamahira, second from left, and engineer Noriyuki Yamanouchi, second from right, scan the ocean aboard a C130 aircraft while it flies over the southern search area in the southeastern Indian Ocean, 200 to 300 kilometers (124 to 186 miles) south of Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes scoured a remote patch of the Indian Ocean but came back empty-handed Friday after looking for any sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, another disappointing day in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
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FILE - In a Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 file photo, Duke Energy engineers and contractors survey the site of a coal ash spill at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden, N.C., as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of the spill into the river. North Carolina regulators said Friday, March 21, 2014, that they have asked a judge to withdraw a proposed settlement that would have allowed Duke Energy to resolve environmental violations by paying a $99,000 fine with no requirement that the $50 billion company clean up its pollution. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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This March 20, 2014 photo made available by the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, shows a crack in an earthen dike holding back millions of gallons of coal ash and contaminated water at Duke Energy’s Cape Fear Plant in Moncure, N.C. On Friday, March 21, 2014, the state approved Duke’s emergency plan to repair the large crack. State environmental officials have issued a notice of violation against the company for illegally pumping 61 million gallons of contaminated water from a coal ash dump into the Cape Fear River. The new concerns come after a massive Feb. 2, 2014, coal ash spill at another Duke plant in Eden coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic gray sludge. (AP Photo/N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources)
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FILE - In a Dec. 22, 2013 file photo, Philadelphia Eagles' Michael Vick warms up before the first half of an NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears, in Philadelphia. The New York Jets signed quarterback Michael Vick and released Mark Sanchez on Friday, March 21, 2014. Vick was a free agent after spending the last five seasons with the Phialdelphia Eagles. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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The steel arch of the old Hoback Bridge, just south of Jackson, Wyo., crumbles into the Snake River after demolition crews used explosives to destroy the structure Thursday, March 20, 2014. The Wyoming Department of Trasportation will spend the next several days fishing the debris out of the river. (AP Photo / Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner)
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Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, left, and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer talk before a news conference, Friday, March 21, 2014, at Hoover Dam in Arizona. The two governors gathered to unveil signs that will be posted along the proposed Interstate 11. It was a symbolic effort meant to keep up momentum on the project, which is coming of age in an era of scarce highway funding. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
