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FILE - A worker at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention sits at a station in the emergency operations center as the CDC monitors swine flu development in this April 27, 2009 file photo taken in Atlanta. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost or misplaced more than $8 million in property in 2007, losing track of items including computer and video equipment, government auditors say. The agency still hasn't explained what happened to the 15 pieces of missing equipment from 2007, auditors said. But a CDC spokeswoman on Wednesday Dec. 29, 2010 said all but four of the items _ including the two most expensive ones _ have since been accounted for. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

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Danish Intelligence Service head Jakob Scharf (right) and his Swedish colleague Lars Danielsson speak Wednesday during a press conference in Copenhagen. Five men planning to shoot as many people as possible in a building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were arrested Wednesday in an operation that halted an imminent attack, intelligence officials said. (Associated Press)

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Manatees congregate in a canal where discharge from a nearby Florida Power & Light plant warms the water in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Overnight temperatures in South Florida were in the 30s. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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**FILE** Rafael Palmeiro testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill to examine the use of steroids in professional baseball on March 17, 2005. (Associated Press)

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Agathe von Trapp, whose family's story became the basis for "The Sound of Music," is seen in an undated photo provided by Mary Louise Kane. Longtime friend Kane said Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 that Agnes von Trapp died Tuesday at a hospice in the Baltimore, Md. suburb of Towson after suffering congestive heart failure in November. She was 97. Von Trapp was the oldest daughter of Austrian naval officer Capt. Georg Ritter von Trapp. (AP Photo/Mary Louise Kane)

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In this Nov. 11, 2010 photo, Leacroft Green places a package to the correct shipping area at an Amazon.com fulfillment center, in Goodyear, Ariz. Amazon.com, the source of many presents good, bad or ugly, has patented a system that would let people exchange unwanted gifts for those they want before anything is actually shipped. For now, though, it's just a patent, so until Amazon figures out how to implement it, you may be stuck with that itchy sweater from grandma. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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The Manhattan Bridge illuminates the night sky as seen from a park in the Dumbo neighborhood of the Brooklyn Borough of New York, Monday Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/James H. Collins)

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** FILE ** Marines salute Saloma Bejar and Mariam Bejar, the mother and wife, respectively, of fallen police Officer Javier Bejar, after presenting the ceremonial flag at services in Reedley, Calif., in March 2010. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)

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Travelers wait in line to find out the status of their flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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A man looks out over the Chesapeake Bay with the Bay Bridge in the background at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Md. The EPA announced its strategy Wednesday to restore the Chesapeake Bay, a year after President Obama issued an executive order to do so. (Associated Press)

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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, after weathering a personal-life scandal and finishing his term, doesn't know what's next for him. "I'm driving east on 26 and beyond that, it's a new adventure," he told AP. (Associated Press)

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Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while an airplane sits motionless on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Brendan Dowd sleds with his daughters Jasmine and Mairin, 9 and 7, down a sledding hill in Brooklyn's Prospect Park after the season's first blizzard blanketed New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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A family walks uphill after they finishing sledding for the day at Belmont Plateau in view of the city skyline in Philadelphia, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while an airplane sits motionless on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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A family walks uphill after they finished sledding for the day at Belmont Plateau in view of the city skyline in Philadelphia, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Brendan Dowd sleds with his daughters Jasmine and Mairin, 9 and 7, down a sledding hill in Brooklyn's Prospect Park after the season's first blizzard blanketed New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Kevin Fagan, from San Francisco, talks on his phone while an airplane sits motionless on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Weston Lant of Rochester, Mass., owner of Lucky Field Organics, assists customer Dean Wong of Plymouth, Mass., at Mr. Lant's indoor farm stand at Plimouth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass. (Associated Press)

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Anabel Kim, of Buenos Aires, tries to catch a cab during a blowing snowstorm, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010 on Fifth Ave in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)