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    President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting on health care at a hanger at Gallatin Airfield in Belgrade, Mont. Friday, Aug. 14, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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    BELGRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Attendees are shown outside a town hall-style meeting attended by President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport on August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    SAN FRANCISCO - AUGUST 14: A protestor holds a sign during an anti-health care reform rally August 14, 2009 in San Francisco, California. As the national debate over proposed health care reform bill continues to heat up, hundreds of demonstrators who oppose health care reform held a rally in downtown San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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    BELGRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Healthcare reform supporters and detractors stand outside a town hall-style meeting attended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport on August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    BELBRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Garrett Hohn of Rexford, Montana protests outside a town hall meeting on health care attended by President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    BELGRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Sarah Finken with Healthcare for America Now rallies for healthcare reform outside a town hall-style meeting attended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport on August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    BELBRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Jessi Sparkman of Bozeman, Montana and Sean Erickson, also of Bozeman, protest outside a town hall meeting on health care attended by President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    BELGRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Ashley Stevick Healthcare OF America Now rallies for healthcare reform outside a town hall-style meeting attended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport on August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    BELGRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: Sarah Glover attends a rally outside a town hall-style meeting attended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport on August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    BELGRADE, MT - AUGUST 14: A woman attends a rally outside a town hall-style meeting attended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a hangar at Gallatin Field Airport on August 14, 2009 in Belgrade, Montana. The president sought to downplay recent televised raucous town hall meetings showing opposition to his health-care proposals, dismissing them as an effort by special interests to protect profits. (Photo by Anne Sherwoodl/Getty Images)
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    President Barack Obama listens to a question from a member of the audience during a town hall meeting on health care reform in Belgrade, Mont., Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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    An Iraqi soldier stands guard on top of a Humvee during a journalists protest at Mutanabi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Dozens of Iraqi journalists have taken to the streets in Iraq's capital to protest what they say is political pressure to silence reporting critical of the government. The banners in Arabic reads, " according to article 19 in the International Human Rights Declaration, every person has the right of freedom of expression." (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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    BAGHDAD, IRAQ - AUGUST 14: An Iraqi journalist chants slogans as he takes part in a protest for the freedom of speech at al-Mutanabi book market on August 14, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. A group of Iraqi media associations and journalists organized a protest which focused on freedom of expression, freedom of information and the worsening environment for media in Iraq. The Iraqi government intends to impose control on information both in print and online, a move which sparked fears of crackdown on freedom of press. (Photo by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images)
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    BAGHDAD, IRAQ - AUGUST 14: Iraqi journalists are seen as they take part in a protest for the freedom of speech at al-Mutanabi book market on August 14, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. A group of Iraqi media associations and journalists organized a protest which focused on freedom of expression, freedom of information and the worsening environment for media in Iraq. The Iraqi government intends to impose control on information both in print and online, a move which sparked fears of crackdown on freedom of press. (Photo by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images)
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    Basque autonomous police patrol the streets after a Basque nationalist demonstration in favour of ETA Basque-Speratist prisoners in the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian, on August 14, 2009. Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon banned the weekly Friday demonstrations held by relatives of ETA prisoners, because of its presumed links to the nationalist party Askatasuna. A. ARRIZURIETA/AFP/Getty Images
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    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 14: An Afghan Police officer secures a street as Presidential candidate Ramazan Bashardost campaigns at an election rally on August 14, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The incumbent president Karzai is considered to be the frontrunner despite claims of corruption and what many consider an ineffectual government. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 14: Afghans make their way through a market place on August 14, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. 41 Candidates are due to run off for Afghanistan's presidential elections which are to be held on August 20. The incumbent President Karzai is considered to be the frontrunner despite claims of corruption and what many consider an ineffectual government. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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    A student takes part in a protest against the high level of unemployment in Sao Paulo, Friday, Aug. 14 , 2009. Protesters also claimed for a land reform. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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    Nepalese policemen detain a Tibetan exile during a protest against the Chinese government at the entrance of a United Nations office in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug 14, 2009. A group of Tibetans participated in a demonstration urging the U.N. to draw attention to the Chinese government's suppression and human rights violations in Tibet. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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    Members of a militant Islamic group Jund Ansar Allah, stand guard as their leader Abdel-Latif Moussa, right, speaks during Friday prayers in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Islamic radicals from an al-Qaida-inspired group are staging a shootout with Hamas security in the Gaza Strip that has killed at least seven. The leader of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, defied Gaza's Hamas rulers by declaring the territory an "Islamic emirate" at Friday prayers. Shortly after, a gunbattle broke out between the militants in the mosque and Hamas forces. (AP Photo/STR)
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    Samir Megahed, right, his wife Ahlam, left, as his son Yahia, center, take the citizen oath Friday Aug. 14, 2009 in Tampa, Fla. Samir Megahed and some of his family members took the oath of an American citizen, three days before his adoptive country tries to throw out one of his sons as a suspected terrorist. Youssef Megahed 23, waits in a South Florida jail to see if he'll be deported, despite being acquitted of his alleged crimes in federal court. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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    Navy personnel wearing their dress whites salute as the hearse transporting the remains of Capt. Scott Speicher leaves All Saints Chapel at Jacksonville Naval Air Station to start the memorial procession traveling to points throughout Jacksonville, Fla. Friday August 14, 2009. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Rick Wilson)
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    Elizabeth Adams of Macclenny, Fla. holds an American flag as a hearse carrying the remains of Capt. Scott Speicher passes by at Cecil Commerce Center during a memorial procession throughout Jacksonville, Fla. Friday Aug. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Rick Wilson)
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    People pay their respects to Navy Capt. Scott Speicher along Blanding Boulevard and at the entrance to Jacksonville Memory Gardens as the motorcade with his remains enters the cemetery Friday, August 14. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Andy Jacobsohn)
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    Mementos adorn a memorial to Capt. Scott Speicher at Cecil Commerce Center which was formally Cecil Field where Speicher was stationed before his final mission, during the memorial procession traveling to points throughout Jacksonville, Fla. Friday August 14, 2009. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Rick Wilson)
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    A wreath in honor of Capt. Scott Speicher sits in front of the Veterans Memorial Wall during a ceremony in his honor as his funeral procession passed by in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Speicher was missing in action for the past 18 years after his fighter jet was shot down during Operation Desert Storm. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Jon M. Fletcher)
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    Items left in memory of Capt. Scott Speicher sit beneath his name on the Veterans Memorial Wall in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday, August 14, 2009. A ceremony was held at the wall where hundreds gather to pay their respects as his funeral procession passed by. Speicher was missing in action for the past 18 years after his fighter jet was shot down during Operation Desert Storm. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Jon M. Fletcher)
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    Jacob McAllister, 6, of Orange Park, Fla, bows his head in prayer during a ceremony in honor of Capt. Scott Speicher at the Veterans Memorial Wall in Jacksonville, Fla., Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Speicher was missing in action for the past 18 years after his fighter jet was shot down during Operation Desert Storm. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Jon M. Fletcher)
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    Bernard Scott places his hand on the Veterans Memorial Wall during a ceremony in honor of Capt. Scott Speicher in Jacksonville, Fla, Friday, August 14, 2009. Now retired, Scott says he has memories of Speicher from his days working at Cecil Field. Speicher was missing in action for the past 18 years after his fighter jet was shot down during Operation Desert Storm. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Jon M. Fletcher)
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    Blue Hallock smiles as she holds a Life Magazine with her photo taken at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 in Bethel, N.Y. A concert at Bethel Woods on Saturday will commemorate the 40th anniversary. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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    Grandpa Woodstock, 65, shows a peace sign as he and his wife Queen Estar, 87, hang out near the original site of the Woodstock Music Festival Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 in Bethel, N.Y. Both were attendees of the original 1969 music festival. A concert at Bethel Woods on Saturday will commemorate the 40th anniversary. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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    Ludi, right, is embraced by souvenir vendor Green, as he arrives in the field behind Hector's Last Chance Saloon in Bethel, N.Y., on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. A concert at Bethel Woods on Saturday will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. (AP Photo/Times Herald-Record, Steve Borland)
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    BETHEL, NY - AUGUST 14: Original performer Richie Haven sings "Freedom" at a performance for the media as the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival approaches August 14, 2009 in Bethel, New York. On August 15-17 in 1969 an estimated 400,000 music fans gathered on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y. for the most celebrated music festival ever. The 40th anniversary concert will take place tomorrow. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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    A member of the Federal Investigation Agency, or AFI, carries marijuana plants at a large plantation that was found near the the town of San Cristobal de Coyutlan on the outskirts of Guadalajara Mexico, Thursday, Aug 13, 2009. Police confiscated and burnt over 7,000 kilograms of marijuana at the plantation. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)
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    A firefighter battles the Lockheed Fire as it threatens to jump a road in unincorporated Santa Cruz County, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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    A helicopter draws water to drop on the Lockheed Fire in unincorporated Santa Cruz County, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. As of Thursday evening, the fire had burned about 2,800 acres. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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    LONDON - AUGUST 14: Freerunners warm up on the eve of the Barclaycard World Free Run Championships on August 14, 2009 in London, England. Trafalgar Square will play host to the second annual Championships welcoming 27 freerunners representing 17 countries (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images For Barclaycard)
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    US Nicholas Fairall competes during the 3rd round of the FIS summer Grand Prix in Ski Jumping, on August 14, 2009 in Courchevel, French Alps. Swiss Simon Ammann won the 3rd round ahead of Polish Adam Malysz and Czech Roman Koudelka. JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT/AFP/Getty Images
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    Yasmine Mohamed Rosto of Egypt performs with a skipping-rope at the rhythmic gymnastics World Cup 2009 tournament, in Ukraine's capital Kiev, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. (AP Photo / Efrem Lukatsky)
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    SAN FRANCISCO - AUGUST 14: Amputee surfers Mario Rodriguez (left) and Julie Carruthers, a.k.a. One-Legged-Joe, stand on the pier before participating in Operation Restoration IV on August 14, 2009 in Pismo Beach, California. Rodriguez, USAF Retired, suffered a right hip disarticulation while serving overseas. Operation Restoration IV is hosted by The Association of Amputee Surfers (AMPSURF), an organzation set up to help disabled veterans and local disabled, along with wounded active duty service men, to learn adaptive surfing and feel the healing power of the ocean and the sport. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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    PISMO BEACH, CA - AUGUST 14: Amputee surfer Mario Rodriguez particapates in Operation Restoration IV on August 14, 2009 in Pismo Beach, California. Rodriguez, USAF Retired, suffered a disarticulation of the right hip while serving overseas. Operation Restoration IV is hosted by The Association of Amputee Surfers (AMPSURF), an organzation set up to help disabled veterans and local disabled, along with wounded active duty service men, to learn adaptive surfing and feel the healing power of the ocean and the sport. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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    PISMO BEACH, CA - AUGUST 14: Amputee surfer Julie Carruthers, a.k.a. One-Legged-Joe, catches a wave during Operation Restoration IV on August 14, 2009 in Pismo Beach, California. Operation Restoration IV is hosted by The Association of Amputee Surfers (AMPSURF), an organzation set up to help disabled veterans and local disabled, along with wounded active duty service men, to learn adaptive surfing and feel the healing power of the ocean and the sport. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
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    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 14: An Afghan boy flies a kite as other children look on in a cemetery on August 14, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. 41 Candidates are due to run off for Afghanistan's presidential elections which are to be held on August 20. The incumbent president Karzai is considered to be the frontrunner despite claims of corruption and what many consider an ineffectual government. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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    Lebanese Hezbollah supporters wave national flags and the Shiite militant group's yellow banner during a rally in a southern Beirut suburb on August 14, 2009, marking three years since the end of the war between Hezbollah and Israel. RAMZI HAIDAR/AFP/Getty Images
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    ORLANDO, FL - AUGUST 14: Celebrity impersonators Vernetta Jenkins as First Lady Michelle Obama, Dale Leigh as former US President Bill Clinton, and Patsy Gilbert as former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (L-R) pose for a photo during the Sunburst Convention of Celebrity Tribute Artists August 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The annual convention offers the artists an opportunity to perform for agents and other talent buyers. (Photo by Matt Stroshane/Getty Images)
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    Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza, front, poses along contestants of the Miss Universe 2009 beauty pageant for the official swimsuit photo at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Mendoza will crown her successor between contestants from 84 countries on Aug. 23. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)
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    Forozan Fana, one of only two Afghan female presidential candidates, poses for a portrait while two of her guards holds a black background during her election campaign in the Women's Garden in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)
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    Tourists holding umbrellas walk past the Tiananmen Gate, which has been rounded up by scaffolding and green net for renovation work in preparation for the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. China must step up efforts to make social stability the top priority ahead of this fall's 60th anniversary of the country's founding, one of China's most powerful leaders said. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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    Devotees form a human pyramid to reach a vessel containing butter during celebrations marking "Janmashtami," the birth anniversary of Hindu God Krishna, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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    A curious golden retriever wades into a tide pool to see what a photographer is shooting, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, at Pond Cove in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The cove, which is part of the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust's Robinson Woods, is a popular place to explore the marine ecosystem at low tide. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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    A frog tries to evade detection by blending in among the lily pads that dot a pond located on the Spring River Golf Course in Roswell, N.M. Thursday morning, Aug. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
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    A rag-picker looks at India's national flag ahead of Independence Day in Allahabad, India, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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    Young devotees, wearing masks as a preventive measure against swine flu, watch a human pyramid during celebrations marking "Janmashtami," the birth anniversary of Hindu God Krishna, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. The streets of the western city of Pune were half-empty, schools in Mumbai were ordered closed, and people suffering aches flooded hospitals across the country as India confronted dueling outbreaks of swine flu and swine flu panic. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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    A Hezbollah supporter holds a poster of slain Hezbollah's top military commander Imad Mughniyeh, left, as other hold a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and President Dmitry Medvedev play badminton at the Bocharov Ruchei presidential residence at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. The dog is Medvedev's golden retriever Aldo. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
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    Construction work continues at the Soccer City Stadium, on the edge of Soweto, south of Johannesburg, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Friday marks the 300 day count down to the opening of FIFA 2010 soccer World Cup tournament match to be staged at the stadium. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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    This image shows a extensive river area of mudslide in Chishan following Typhoon Morakot, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, in Kaohsiung County, Southern Taiwan. Some 14,000 villagers have been rescued _ including 600 on Thursday _ since Typhoon Morakot dumped more than 80 inches (2 meters) of rain this past weekend, the island's disaster relief center said. The storm unleashed the worst floods the island has seen in 50 years.(AP Photo/Pool)
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    Relatives continue to wait with hopes of rescued family members to emerge from helicopters at an emergency landing zone in Cishan, southern Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou declared Friday that at least 500 people were killed when Typhoon Morakot struck the island causing massive flooding and landslides. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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    A mudslide-affected area is seen, following Typhoon Morakot, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, in Chiayi County, southern Taiwan. Floods and mudslides unleashed by Typhoon Morakot last weekend have killed about 500 people on the island. (AP Photo/Pool)
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    Brothers pray to their deceased families buried in mudslide at the flooded village of Shiaolin following Typhoon Morakot, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, in Kaohsiung County, southern Taiwan. (AP Photo/Tony Huang )
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