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In this photo taken July 5, 2010, Bazelais Suy, left, and Dr. Dan Ivankovich make their way into O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, as Suy returns to his native Haiti. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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In this photo taken July 5, 2010, in Chicago, Bazelais Suy waits for his flight at O'Hare International Airport to return to his native Haiti. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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In this July 5, 2010 picture, Bazelais Suy shakes hands with a police officer as he arrives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at the Toussaint Louverture airport. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this July 5, 2010 picture, Bazelais Suy, right, embraces nurse Rosite Merentie as he talks with friends in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this July 6, 2010 photo, Bazelais Suy, center, talks with Dr. Dan Ivankovich, right, at Suy's new apartment in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this July 6, 2010 photo, Bazelais Suy, center, cries in front of his cakes during his birthday party in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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An AK-47, with Saddam Hussein's image on it, is displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Artifacts are displayed at the Iraqi Ministry of foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Hundreds of Iraqi artifacts looted from museums and archaeological sites across the country have been returned to Iraq. The display is part of Iraqi efforts to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke as seen from Tanah Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The volcano shot volcanic ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Monday, Sept. 06, 2010, at 10:45 a.m. EDT shows clouds associated with Tropical Storm Hermine spinning in the western Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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Jesse Lebovics, longtime caretaker of the 1892 USS Olympia, the oldest steel warship still afloat, illuminates a coal bunker to show multiple repairs at and below the waterline. The museum ship, in the Delaware River, needs $1 million to survive. (Associated Press)
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An agouti rodent eats around roots and trees in Brownsberg Nature Park, about 80 miles south of Paramaribo, Suriname. Miners are tearing up trees, poisoning creeks with mercury and, in some places, erecting makeshift jungle towns with shops, prostitutes and churches. In their wake is a wasteland, said a regional representative of the World Wildlife Fund. (Associated Press)
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A miner sprays water using a hydraulic mining system at an open gold-mine pit near the small town of Nieuw Koffiekamp on the edge of the Suriname's rain forest. Thanks to record gold prices, hundreds of small-scale mining operations are proliferating along the northeastern shoulder of South America, tearing up trees and poisoning creeks with mercury. (Associated Press)
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A sluice box containing mercury, used in the filtration process, operates at a gold mine near Nieuw Koffiekamp. The World Wildlife Fund estimates the small-scale mining is responsible for some 20 tons of mercury entering the environment and posing a risk to people through fish consumption. (Associated Press)
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A man walks over a damaged road in Paiapoi, 13 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The area was hit on Saturday by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads, twisted rail lines and ripped a new 11-foot-wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Pan-American Highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo)
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A young skateboarder takes advantage of a warped road in Paiapoi, 12 miles south of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The Christchurch area was struck on Saturday by a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads, twisted rail lines and ripped a new 11-foot-wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
