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Celina Fernandes of Brazil plants maxixe on a transplanter at the University of Massachusetts' Agronomy Farm in South Deerfield, Mass. As customers become more familiar with ethnic foods, experts expect sales to grow even more. (Associated Press)
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Oil spill clean up crews walk the beaches Friday, July 2, 2010 on Elmers Island, La. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil spill clean up crews work in a staging area Friday, July 2, 2010 on Elmers Island, La. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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** FILE ** This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Alex as it comes ashore on a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast in Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state about 110 miles south of Brownsville Texas on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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Storm clouds created by Hurricane Alex are seen over shrimp boats modified to skim oil in Port Fourchon, Louisiana on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Alex, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, closed oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and caused waves as high as 8 feet in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill area. (Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg)
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Padre Boulevard floods as the early effects of Hurricane Alex are felt along the Texas coast on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in South Padre Island, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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** FILE ** In this Aug. 21, 2007, file picture, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olli Heinonen, listens to a question during a joint press conference with a top Iranian nuclear negotiator, Javad Vaeedi, unseen, after their talks in Tehran, Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency says senior nuclear inspector Olli Heinonen will be leaving his post at the end of August. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi,File)
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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Alex as it comes ashore Wednesday on a relatively unpopulated stretch of coast in Mexico's northern Tamaulipas state, about 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Alex is moving west near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds are near 100 mph with higher gusts. Steady weakening is expected as the hurricane moves over land according to forecasters. (Associated Press/NOAA)
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A helicopter drops bags of sand onto a barrier during efforts to contain oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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People move bags of sand onto a barge during efforts to contain oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill collects in shallows in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill creates dark pockets on a small island ringed with absorbant material in Barataria Bay near Port Sulphur, La., Friday, June 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Michael Jackson fans gather outside Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, Calif., Friday, June 25, 2010, to mark the first year anniversary of Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom head, Alexei Miller, meet at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow, Monday, June 21, 2010. Mr. Medvedev ordered the state-controlled gas monopoly Monday to cut gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbor Belarus over its debt for Russian natural gas supplies. On Thursday, June 24, 2010, Russia announced it will resume supply to Belarus. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press service)
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U.S. District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman, who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry. (AP Photo/Office of U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman)
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Workers vacuum up oil that has collected on marsh grass in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency in North Korea and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo on Monday, June 21, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il gestures while meeting with miners at Pyeong-an puk-do, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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A Forest Service helicopter drops water on a wildfire behind the Little America Hotel in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Sun, Rick Wacha)
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Chinese firemen evacuate a man trapped in the floods in Xiushui, in central China's Jiangxi province, on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Major rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said Sunday. (AP Photo)
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From left, Anne Costner, Pat Smith, COO Ocean Therapy Solutions, John Houghtalking, CEO of Ocean Therapy Solutions, actor Kevin Costner, founding partner of Ocean Therapy Solutions and Doug Suttles, COO of BP Exploration and Production, talk aboard the barge holding Ocean Therapy's centrifuge machine designed to separate oil and water in Port Fourchon, La. Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber, Pool)
