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A bus burst into flames as it raced to an Israeli prison during a massive forest fire on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Dozens of prison guards participating in the rescue mission died, officials said, in one of the deadliest accidents in the nation's history. (AP Photo/Avishag Shar-Yeshuv)
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** FILE ** Crews clean up oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola Beach in Pensacola, Fla., in June 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Spooneybarger, File)
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The Rockefeller Christmas tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway spruce covered in 30,000 energy efficient LED lights, is lit in Rockefeller Center in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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The Rockefeller Christmas tree, a 12-ton, 74-foot Norway spruce covered in 30,000 energy efficient LED lights, is lit in Rockefeller Center in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Cars are partially covered by water at the flooded parking lot of a car importer in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)
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People watch rescue efforts after homes fell due to heavy rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela, forced thousands from their homes and idled an oil refinery. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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People float on inner tubes through a flooded street in Higuerote, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela and forced thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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A boy carries a girl on his back through a flooded street in Higuerote, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela and forced thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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People sit under a roof near homes that collapsed due to heavy rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela and forced thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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A woman sits with her belongings and her bird as she evacuates from her home after nearby homes fell due to heavy rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela, forced thousands from their homes and idled an oil refinery. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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People sit with their belongings as they evacuate from their home after nearby homes fell due to heavy rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela, forced thousands from their homes and idled an oil refinery. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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People rescue chickens from a flooded chicken farm in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)
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A worker rescues chickens from a flooded chicken farm in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)
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A worker rescues a chicken from a flooded chicken farm in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former President George W. Bush speaks during a forum on leadership and service in Lake Forest, Calif. He touched on a range of topics during a webcast Monday with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Chen Bingzhong, 78, formerly head of a government health research and outreach agency, is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with the virus that causes AIDS.
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In this photo taken Oct. 14, 2010, Stephen Marshall, owner of Little House on the Trailer, is seen in front of one of the homes he built in Petaluma, Calif. According to builders, the market for tiny houses has surged since the housing crisis began, as more Americans downsize to save money, simplify their lives and reduce their carbon footprint. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A man rides through a street littered with election ballots near a polling station after it was destroyed Monday by demonstrators in Grande Riu Du Nord village, Haiti. The country wrapped up an election Sunday in discord. Runoffs are expected for the presidential and nearly all senatorial and parliamentary races.
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A man sits outside the earthquake-damaged National Palace one day after general elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which ended in turmoil. Results are not expected until Dec. 7.
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Iran's Fars News Agency claims that this photo shows one of the cars damaged in two bomb attacks on two nuclear scientists in Tehran on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Assailants on motorcycles attached bombs to the cars as the scientists were driving to work. One was killed and the other seriously wounded, Iranian state television reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)
