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People walk among debris after landslides at Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing hundreds of people and leaving dozens more missing _ lives rescuers hoped to save as they resumed searches Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Cars sit in debris in a flooded street in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Roberto Ferreira, Agencia O Dia)

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People stand on the porch of their home at the edge of landslide damage in the Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Rescue workers search for survivors in collapsed homes destroyed by flooding in the Nova Friburgo municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Gerson Goncalo, Agencia O Dia)

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People walk next to debris and a damaged car after landslides in the Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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An aerial view shows the mudslide in Teresopolis, Brazil, that killed 152 people on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Marino Azevedo, Government of Rio de Janeiro state)

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A frame grab from video shows an aerial view of a mudslide in Teresopolis, Brazil, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential rain tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing at least 140 people in 24 hours, the state's emergency rescue office said. (AP Photo/TV Globo, Agencia O Globo)

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Toronto Raptors' Julian Wright grabs a rebound ahead of Cleveland Cavaliers' Anderson Varejao, left, from Brazil, abd Daniel Gibson, right, in the second quarter in an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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Mitsubishi's driver Guilherme Spinelli and co-driver Youssef Haddad, both of Brazil, compete Sunday during the first stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Victoria and Cordoba, Argentina. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff was sworn in on Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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A police officer guards the area where a bus was burned by alleged drug traffickers at the Santa Cruz slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Nov. 24, 2010. Heavily armed men halted buses and cars, robbed their passengers and set the vehicles ablaze Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a wave of violence that has rattled rich and poor alike in a city Brazil hopes to make a showplace for the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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A worker cuts damaged cables next to a bus burned by alleged drug traffickers at the Santa Cruz slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Nov. 24, 2010. Heavily armed men halted buses and cars, robbed their passengers and set the vehicles ablaze Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, continuing a wave of violence that has rattled rich and poor alike in a city Brazil hopes to make a showplace for the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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A woman and children stand next a car burned by alleged treffickers at Cavalcanti neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday Nov. 24, 2010. Rio's entire military police force was ordered into the streets after more gang burned cars. (AP Photo/ Silvia Izquierdo)

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Police patrol in the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010. Rio's entire military police force was ordered into the streets after more gang attacks ended with two motorists shot dead, cars burned and mass robberies on highways. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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A bullet hole pierces the window of a small police station in the Del Castilho neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010. Rio's entire military police force was ordered into the streets after more gang attacks ended with two motorists shot dead, cars burned and mass robberies on highways. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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People take refuge in a store during a police operation against organized crime in the Vila Cruzeiro slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010. Rio's entire military police force was ordered into the streets after more gang attacks ended with two motorists shot dead, cars burned and mass robberies on highways. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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Police patrol in the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010. Rio's entire military police force was ordered into the streets after more gang attacks ended with two motorists shot dead, cars burned and mass robberies on highways. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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The body of a man lies slumped in a car after being shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010. Rio's entire military police force was ordered into the streets after more gang attacks ended with two motorists shot dead, cars burned and mass robberies on highways. (AP Photo/Severino Silva, Agencia O Dia)

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An UN peacekeepers from Brazil falls from his vehicle next to demonstrators during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Argentina's striker Lionel Messi (R) challenges Brazil's midfielder Lucas Leiva during their friendly soccer match at Khalifa Stadium in the Qatari capital Doha on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 .(AP Photo/Osama Faisal)