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Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden grabs a pass during practice at the NFL football team's training camp Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in Berea, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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** FILE ** Ali Akbar Salehi (right), head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, speaks with media during a press conference as cleric Gholamali Safaei Bushehri looks on at the Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern Iranian city of Bushehr on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino visits the Altamont Fair in Altamont, N.Y., on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Paladino greeted fairgoers during a one-hour visit. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)

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Pakistan flood-affected swarm to get relief food distributed by a local charity group in Baseera, central Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. About 150,000 Pakistanis were forced to move to higher ground as floodwaters from a freshly swollen Indus River submerged dozens more towns and villages in the south, a government spokesman said. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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President Barack Obama waves to a crowd as he leaves the Bunch of Grapes book store in Vineyard Haven, Mass., on Friday, Aug. 2010, where the first family is vacationing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard of the Federal Labor Party casts her vote at the Seabrook Primary School in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Graham)

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An Iranian security directs media at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with the reactor building seen in the background, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel Saturday into Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Moscow has promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Injured New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning practices without a helmet Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Haitian-born singer and presidential candidate Wycleaf Jean, second left, walks surrounded by security after Haiti's Electoral Council rejected his presidential candidacy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The council's spokesman Richard Dumel announced Friday that it has accepted 19 presidential candidacies and has rejected 15 others for the upcoming Nov. 28 presidential election, including Jean's because he did not meet the residency requirement of having lived in Haiti for five years before election. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine during the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Democratic National Committee officers Raymond Buckley, left, and Donna Brazile take part in the DNC's summer meeting, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine speaks during the DNC's summer meeting, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks during the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Vice President Joe Biden gestures while addressing the summer meeting for the Democratic National Committee, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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In this Dec. 2, 2009, file photo, U.S. soldiers patrol through the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan. A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell, smile as they talk with the media about Mideast peace talks, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to resume their long-stalled direct negotiations in Washington early next month, Mrs. Clinton said Friday, with a goal of two sovereign states existing side by side in peace. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Pakistani flood survivors wait their turn to get relief food distributed by naval officials in Sangi Village near Sukkur, in southern Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The world ramped up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday three weeks after the crisis began, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Washington did not want Islamist extremists to come out of the disaster stronger. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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A Pakistani woma sits outside her tent as they wait for relief goods at a camp for flood victims at Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Thursday Aug. 19, 2010. The world ramped up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan three weeks after the crisis began, and U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Washington did not want Islamist extremists to come out of the disaster stronger. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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Lal Pir power generating station which is submerged in flood water further increased the power crisis in Muzaffargarh near Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country's president said Thursday. Asif Ali Zardari's remarks were echoed by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who toured some of the worst hit areas and visited a relief camp alongside the president. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)