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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station is transported from hangar to the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station seen at the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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The Russian Soyuz TMA-01M space ship that will carry new crew to the international space station seen at the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Friday, Oct. 8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Tunde Erdelyi, left, saves her cat while Janos Kis, right, walks into their yard flooded by toxic mud in the town of Devecser, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Monday's flooding was caused by the rupture of a red sludge reservoir at an alumina plant in western Hungary and has affected seven towns near the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in the town of Ajka, 100 miles southwest of Budapest. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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This file photo released by Solar Design Associates shows the solar thermal system produced by the Harvard, Mass., company, installed on the roof of the White House pool cabana in Washington during the George W. Bush administration. The Obama White House on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, will announce plans to install solar panels for the first time atop the White House's living quarters by spring 2011. (AP Photo/Solar Design Associates)
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Protesters hold the banner with the picture of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan near the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, as they demonstrate over a ship collision near the Diaoyu islands (Senkaku islands). (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Haitians in Port-au-Prince scavenge for metal Sept. 30 in the rubble of what was the tax collection office. Millions of Haitians still live on the streets amid pies of rubble from Jan. 12's magnitude 7 earthquake. Much promised aid has not materialized. (Associated Press)
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In this undated photo, chunks of chemically processed rare earths are shown in Beijing. China's recent halt of exotic metal shipments to Japan amid a diplomatic spat has reverberated throughout the world's high-tech manufacturing hubs _ now on heightened alert to the risks of relying on one country for materials that do everything from helping hybrid engines run to creating the color red in televisions. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Ted Turner arrives at the Environmental Media Awards at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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In this photo taken Sept. 30, 2010, Monica Caraffa poses for a photograph with signs in front of her home opposing Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, in Philadelphia. Despite his ascendancy to starting quarterback and several winning performances in that role, Vick has not won over many of the animal-loving Eagles fans who were the most incensed when he was signed last year. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo supplied by Halls, Gericke and Hofmeyr (HGH) Pharmaceuticals and taken on Sept. 18, 2009 shows crops of the indigenous plant, sceletium tortuosum, being tended to in the Karoo in South Africa. The plant, that the San people, (sometimes called bushmen) have chewed to reduce stress, relieve hunger, sedate and elevate moods is to be marketed internationally. (AP Photo/Nigel Gericke HGH Pahrmaceuticals - HO)
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Rescuers search for victims of a train crash near a station in Petarukan in Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The early morning train crash in central Indonesia killed dozens of people and injured another dozens, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo)
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A vehicle is stranded on a flooded road in Guilderland, N.Y., Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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People and their dogs stand before floodwaters from the Schuylkill River that submerged a section of Kelly Drive in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A snapped tree lies on top a home on Buffalo Avenue in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Much of Virginia remains under flash flood warnings after a storm dumped up to 7 inches of rain, closing roads and knocking out power for thousands of residents. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Preston Gannaway)
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This undated handout artist rendering provided by Lynette Cook, National Science Foundation, shows a new planet, right. Astronomers have found a planet that is in the Goldilocks zone _ just right for life. Not too hot, not too cold. Not too far from its sun, not too close. And it is near Earth _ relatively speaking, at 120 trillion miles. It also makes scientists think that these examples of habitable planets are far more common than they thought. (AP Photo/Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)
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**FILE** In this photo from Sept. 15, 2010, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appears as the featured speaker at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs' annual Liberty Gala at the Convention Center in Tulsa, Okla. (Associated Press)
