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A Pakistani flood survivor floats his mother to safer area Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani army soldiers rescue villagers from flooded areas Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Pakistani flood survivors return to their village devastated by heavy floods in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)
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In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's helicopter flies over the flood waters in the Province of Punjab, near the city of Multan in Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan after surveying the devastation and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Echneider)
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Pakistani villagers chase relief supplies dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani villagers approach to pick up food packets dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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Pakistani displaced families spend time around their tents at a camp set up for flood survivors in Razzakabad on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Emergency workers look at an off-highway vehicle that lost control and barreled into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, at the California 200 off-road race at Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area near Lucerne Valley, Calif. Eight people were killed and 12 wounded, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kris Reilly, Victor Valley Daily Press)
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In a photo made from NASA television, Expedition 24 astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson works outside the space station Monday Aug. 16, 2010 as she and Douglas Wheelock prepare to install a cooling pump module, replacing the one that failed. (AP Photo/NASA)
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FILE - In this April 22, 2010 file photo, James Cameron arrives at The Green Carpet and Home Tree Earth Day celebration in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, file)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) introduces Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the members of his delegation at the prime minister's house in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Mr. Ban traveled to flood-ravaged Pakistan to boost relief efforts as the 20 million people made homeless in one of the worst disasters to hit the country grow increasingly desperate. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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Emergency workers look at an off-highway vehicle that lost control and barreled into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010, during the California 200 off-road race at Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Area near Lucerne Valley, Calif. Eight people were killed and 12 injured, authorities say. (AP Photo/Kris Reilly, Victor Valley Daily Press)
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Pakistani flood affected villagers sit in the rubble of their houses, in Aza Kheil near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Residents of camps set up for people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake demonstrate in front of the collapsed presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Aug 12, 2010. Demonstrators said the government is failing on its promises to provide housing as private landowners pressure the camp residents to leave. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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This image provided by NASA of the Petermann Glacier and the new iceberg was acquired from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Thursday Aug. 12, 2010. It covers an area of 49.5 by 31.5 kilometers (30.7 by 19.5 miles), four times the size of New York's Manhattan island. According to scientists the recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years. (AP Photo/NASA)
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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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A Russian Emergency Ministry Ka-32 helicopter spews water onto a burning a forest in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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A firefighter battling a fire in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
