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North Koreans and Chinese travel agents enjoy a buffet during the 21-hour trial cruise on the refurbished Japanese-built cargo ship. (Associated Press)
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North Koreans gather to send off the leisure boat Mangyongbong on a trial cruise to the Mount Kumgang resort from the port in Rason, North Korea, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Since the North barred South Korean tourists from the luxury resort, known abroad as Diamond Mountain, North Korea has begun courting Chinese and other international visitors. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A tattered American flag recovered from World Trade Center debris is part of the Smithsonian Institution's upcoming special display of 9/11 "relics," positioned on tables rather than from behind exhibit glass. (National Museum of American History)
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Destroyed by water smashing under the boardwalk, concrete park benches and tables are strewn about, near the beach in the Rockaway Park section of New York Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Tom Chase waves atop of his friend's beach home in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, in East Haven, Conn., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Waves crash over waterfront condominiums in the Fort Trumbull section of Milford, Conn. Sunday Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Brian A. Pounds)
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Bicyclists ride past the Allegria Hotel on West Broadway which was flooded from Hurricane Irene that swept through Long Island on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Long Beach, N.Y. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
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A Fairfield Beach Road home is submerged in Pine Creek in Fairfield, Conn. as treacherous weather caused by Tropical Storm Irene came through the area on Sunday Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Cathy Zuraw)
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Denise Robinson clears out her destroyed beach home in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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UNWELCOME VISITOR: Debbie Martinez looks over the damage caused by a tree uprooted by Hurricane Irene that crashed into the bedroom of the house she is renting on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor, in Annapolis on Sunday. Nobody was hurt. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soldiers from the Army's Old Guard take photos of headstones in Section 15 of Arlington National Cemetery. Their project is to photograph and catalog the more than 219,00 grave markers and 43,000 nameplates in the columbarium.
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Marco and Marta Bonifazi of Geneva return to the bus that will take them back home to Geneva after their first shopping trip at the Carrefour supermarket across the border in Ferney-Voltaire, France. "It's just great to save money," Mr. Bonifazi, showing off his receipt, said of the Swiss franc that buys a lot more in countries that use the euro. (Associated Press)
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As Hurricane Irene makes her way up the Atlantic coast, a couple walks out to the pier at the waterfront in Alexandria, Va, Saturday, August 27, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Andrea Cook carries her daughter Brynn, 1, towards her daughter Cora, 3, next to the root ball of an uprooted tree on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor, in Anne Arundel County, Md., Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees which crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)
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Mindy Prager takes a photo of an uprooted tree that crashed into the bedroom of Debbie Martinez, who is renting a house on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor in Anne Arundel County, Md., on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Nobody was hurt in the incident. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Andrea Cook carries daughter Brynn, 1, toward her daughter Cora, 3, in front of the root ball of an uprooted tree on Canal Lane in White Hall Manor in Anne Arundel County, Md., on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Winds and rain from Hurricane Irene uprooted trees that crashed into houses in the neighborhood on Saturday night. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk Saturday morning, Aug. 27, 2011 after they and another person were rescued from the boat that foundered in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. A rescuer, left, waits for s second person to exit the boat. (AP Photo/TheVirginian-Pilot, Bill Tiernan)
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Wind blows against palm trees on a beach in Ocean City, Md., on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads toward the Maryland coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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A federal police officer and soldiers patrol near the Casino Royale after a deadly assault in Monterrey, Mexico, Friday Aug. 26, 2011. Mexican officials say a group of at least eight assailants poured gasoline inside the casino before setting it on fire on Thursday, trapping dozens of people inside and killing at least 52 people. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
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A woman tells a worker where top place sand bags at the restaurant Red Curry in Old Town Alexandria, Va, Friday, August 26, 2011. In a city which saw severe flooding during Hurricane Isabel in 2002, business owners and residents are wasting no time preparing for Hurricane Irene. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
