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(AP) - Mike Roberts of Colorado Springs, Colo., checks on the status of the waves from Tropical Storm Hanna at his home Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 on the east end of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.. Built in 1979 by his father, the house was designed to take years of punishment from the wind and rain. At the time it was built the home was four rows back from the ocean, now it is oceanfront due to years of beach erosion. Many east end residents fear tropical storm Hanna could cause severe damage to area homes if it hits at high tide. (AP Photo/The Sun News, Randall Hill)
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Employees at Marine Max Marina prepare boats in dry-dock for winds and rains anticipated with the arrival of Tropical Storm Hannah in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Tropical Storm Hanna closed in on the US east coast on the verge of hurricane strength after leaving 163 dead in Haiti, as a more powerful Hurricane Ike threatened Caribbean islands and the United States.(AFP/Getty Images/Logan Mock-Bunting)
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(Reuters) - Amanda Joynt waters her garden in an old hockey arena converted to a greenhouse for growing vegetables 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, August 26, 2008. The half-pipe shaped facility is North America's northern-most commercial greenhouse, and a virtual necessity for anyone interested in eating a fresh vegetable in Inuvik that has not been shipped in from a warmer climate. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
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(AP) - Andrea Shutts of Morehead City, N.C., holds her daughter Hannah, 2, up in the air so her hair can blow in the wind of Tropical Storm Hanna at the Oceanna Pier in Atlantic Beach , N.C. on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. The storm is forecast to make landfall along the Carolinas coast early Saturday (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
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(Reuters) - Lucy Kuptana weeds her garden in an old hockey arena converted to a greenhouse for growing vegetables 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Arctic Circle in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, August 26, 2008. The half-pipe shaped facility is North America's northern-most commercial greenhouse, and a virtual necessity for anyone interested in eating a fresh vegetable in Inuvik that has not been shipped in from a warmer climate. (Todd Korol/Reuters)
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(AP) - This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Ike, still a Category 4 storm on the morning of Sept. 4, 2008 when this photo was taken from the International Space Station's vantage point of 220 miles above the Earth. The season's seventh named storm was churning west-northwestward through the mid-Atlantic Ocean sporting winds of 120 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 145. Ike could hit Florida by the middle of next week. At 1100 p.m. EDT the center of Hurricane Ike was located about 360 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph a Category 3 hurricane. Some strengthening is expected. (AP Photo/NASA)
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(AFP) - An activist portraying a dolphin protests in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC. Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year.(AFP/Karen Bleier)
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(AP) - A new-born Javan Lutung (Trachypithecus auratus), also known as Javan Langur, baby is embraced by Smirre, the mother, in the Budapest Zoo in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The Javan Langur baby was born on August 18, the mother arriving from the Netherland’s Apeldoorn and the father, Orange, from Belfast. The baby has not yet been given a name as at this early age the gender was unconfirmed, but is believed to be male. It is the first time that a baby has been born to Javan Langurs, an endangered species, in Hungary. (AP Photo/MTI, Attila Kovacs)
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(AFP/File) - Greenpeace activists during an underwater protest at the Great Barrier Reef. Australia's chief climate advisor Friday urged a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 but conceded this may not save the country's natural assets such as the Great Barrier Reef(AFP/File/Dean Miller)
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(AFP) - Killer smile : An estuarine crocodile, better known as the saltwater or saltie, is enticed with meat out of the Adelaide river near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. (AFP/Greg Wood)
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(AFP/GREENPEACE) - This photo released by Greenpeace shows a local land owner/activist protesting as the environmental group attempts to stop the shipping of illegally logged trees from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea on September 3, 2008. Greenpeace said that its activists had boarded a logging ship in Papua New Guinea to stop it exporting timber to China.(AFP/GREENPEACE)
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(AFP) - Activists portraying Japanese fishermen throw a net over a a school of 'dolphins' during a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC. Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year.(AFP/Karen Bleier)
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(AFP) - Activists portraying Japanese fishermen spear "dolphins" during a protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC. Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year.(AFP/Karen Bleier)
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(AFP/GREENPEACE) - Greenpeace photo shows a local land owner/activist holding a sign as the environmental group attempts to stop the shipping of illegally logged trees from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea on September 3. Greenpeace has said that its activists had boarded a logging ship in the country to prevent it exporting timber to China.(AFP/GREENPEACE)
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(AFP/File) - Fish at a market in Madrid in June 2008. Sixty-nine countries have adopted guidelines aimed at protecting deep-sea fish species and habitats outside national waters that are at risk from overfishing, a UN body said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Angel Navarrete)
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(AP) - In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a one week old Kihansi spray toadlet clings to a paperclip at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. About the size of a ladybug, this toadlet was photographed on a small paperclip to show just how tiny they really are at birth. Found only in one gorge in Tanzania, Africa, this species is thought to be extinct in nature. (AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)
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(AFP/IFRC/Ho) - An aerial view of the flooding caused by Hurricane Hanna in Gonaives, Haiti's second largest city. nternational emergency aid was providing a tentative lifeline to hundreds of thousands of displaced Haitians without food or water who faced "catastrophic" conditions after a trio of fierce storms devastated the impoverished nation.(AFP/IFRC/Ho/Matthew Marek)
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(AP) - In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a one week old Kihansi spray toadlet clings to a paperclip at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. About the size of a ladybug, this toadlet was photographed on a small paperclip to show just how tiny they really are at birth. Found only in one gorge in Tanzania, Africa, this species is thought to be extinct in nature. (AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Employees at a hotel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina remove outdoor furniture in preparation for winds and rains anticipated with the arrival of Tropical Storm Hannah.(AFP/Getty Images/Logan Mock-Bunting)
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(AFP) - An aerial view of Gonaives, Haiti, after the passing of Tropical Storm Hanna. Hanna closed in on the US east coast on the verge of hurricane strength after leaving 163 dead in Haiti, as a more powerful Hurricane Ike threatened Caribbean islands and the United States.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)
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(AP) - This satellite image made available by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Hanna on Friday, Sept. 6, 2008 at 10:45 p.m. EDT. Hanna cruised toward the Carolinas on Friday, forecast to hit land overnight and promising to deliver gusty winds and heavy rain during a dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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(AFP/HO) - This photograph taken in July 2008 from a camera trap shows a leopard in Sebangau National Park in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. According to British zoologist Susan Cheyne, a new population of rare leopard has been found living in thick forests on the Indonesian half of Borneo island.(AFP/HO/Susan Cheyne)
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(AP) - A yellow-cheeked crested gibbon yawns in a cage at Cambodia's Phnom Tamau Zoo in Takeo province, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Unchecked development could threaten two rare monkey species, yellow-cheeked crested gibbon and black-shanked douc langurs, that were recently discovered in Cambodia's remote northeast, international researchers said Monday. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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(AP) - Visitors look over the statue of the mythical god Neptune as clouds from Tropical Storm Hanna approach the coast on the boardwalk in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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(AFP/File) - Two giant pandas enjoy a stick of bamboo at a zoo in Beijing in May 2008. Officials at Taiwan's biggest zoo said Wednesday they hoped to welcome a pair of giant pandas from rival China as early as November, a move expected to draw millions of tourists to the capital.(AFP/File/Teh Eng Koon)
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(Reuters) - An aerial view of floods caused by Tropical Storm Hanna is seen in Gonaives in this September 3, 2008 file photo. Haitian police found 495 corpses when muddy floodwaters began to recede on Friday from the port city of Gonaives (Marco Dormino/Minustah/Handout/Reuters)
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(AFP) - On the banks : An estuarine crocodile better known as the saltwater or saltie, lies in the sun on the banks of the Adelaide river near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. (AFP/Greg Wood)
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(AFP/File) - Hong Kong is considering banning fishing trawlers in its waters to save fish stocks, a report said Thursday. The drastic proposal comes as annual catches were estimated to be 30 percent above sustainable levels, the South China Morning Post said, citing a consultation paper from the Food and Health bureau.(AFP/File/Richard A. Brooks)
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(Reuters) - Greg Couch of Charlotte, North Carolina, watches the tide come in as Tropical Storm Hanna makes its way to the coast of the Carolinas in Ocean Isle, North Carolina, September 5, 2008. (Chris Keane/Reuters)
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(AP) - Bathers enjoy the beach and surf in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, as Tropical Storm Hanna approaches the East Coast. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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(Reuters) - The tide makes its way in as Tropical Storm Hanna makes its way to the coast of the Carolinas in Ocean Isle, North Carolina, September 5, 2008. (Chris Keane/Reuters)
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(AP) - Ocean Boulevard looks like a ghost town as Tropical Storm Hanna moves closer to land Friday Sept. 5, 2008, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to strike the area early Saturday morning.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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(AFP/Getty Images/NOAA/Ho) - Satellite image shows Tropical Storm Hanna as it bears down on the U.S. east coast. Hanna bore down on the US east coast Saturday after sweeping across the Caribbean and leaving at least 163 dead in Haiti.(AFP/Getty Images/NOAA/Ho/Handout)
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Customers walk into a store boarded-up with plywood and decorated with the names of previous storms in North Carolina. Tropical Storm Hanna storm is expected to make landfall move rapidly up the East Coast.(AFP/Getty Images/Logan Mock-Bunting)
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(AP) - A wall that is being lifted by tree roots, is shown at Frank Lloyd Wright's home, called Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wis. on July 5, 2008. Wright integrated natural elements, such as trees into many of his buildings. At Taliesin, that has created some structural issues as the trees have grown and put pressure on the house. (AP Photo/Michelle Johnson)
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(AFP/Getty Images) - Customers walk into a store boarded-up with plywood and decorated with the names of previous storms in North Carolina. Tropical Storm Hanna storm is expected to make landfall move rapidly up the East Coast.(AFP/Getty Images/Logan Mock-Bunting)
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(AFP/File) - An Orangutan stands by a river in Nyaru Menteng, Central Kalimantan in 2006. A decision by Indonesian palm oil companies to reject a moratorium on land clearing is threatening to wipe out more than 8,000 orangutans in the next three years, activists said Thursday.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)
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(AFP/NOAA) - This NOAA handout satellite image shows Hurricane Ike. Tropical Storm Hanna closed in on the US east coast Friday on the verge of hurricane strength after leaving 136 dead in Haiti, as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened Caribbean islands and the United States.(AFP/NOAA)
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(AP) - Jacob Stone, and Suzanne O'Hara, of Baltimore, Md. watch the heavy surf cause by Tropical Storm Hanna as they walk under the pier Friday Sept. 5, 2008, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to strike the area early Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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(AP) - Joey Lugano's #2 NASCAR Sprint Car is pushed to the hauler as inclement weather from Tropical Storm Hanna arrives Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, at Richmond International Raceway, in Richmond, Va. NASCAR postponed all weekend activities including the Nationwide series race and the Sprint Cup series race till Sunday. (AP Photo/Scott K. Brown)
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(AP) - Lisa Danos gets ice from a distribution point in Houma, La., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Much of South Louisiana is struggling to rebound from the effects of Hurricane Gustav. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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(AP) - A soybean field near England, Ark., is flooded by rain from remnants of Hurricane Gustav Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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(AP) - This undated photo released by the Taliesin Preservation Inc., shows an exterior view of the Romeo and Juliet windmill tower at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis. Thousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the river, Wright's Taliesin has cantilever roofs, wide windows, great room and an open floor plan that became some of the architect's trademarks. (AP Photo/Taliesin Preservation Inc.)
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(AP) - This undated photo released by the Taliesin Preservation Inc., shows an interior view of the Hillside School Theater at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis. Thousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the river, Wright's Taliesin has cantilever roofs, wide windows, great room and an open floor plan that became some of the architect's trademarks. (AP Photo/Taliesin Preservation Inc.)
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(AP) - This undated photo released by the Taliesin Preservation Inc., shows the living room of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis. Thousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the river, Wright's Taliesin has cantilever roofs, wide windows and an open floor plan that became some of the architect's trademarks. (AP Photo/Taliesin Preservation Inc.)
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(AP) - This photo released by the Taliesin Preservation Inc., shows an exterior view of Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis. Thousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the river, Wright's Taliesin has cantilever roofs, wide windows, great room and an open floor plan that became some of the architect's trademarks. (AP Photo/Taliesin Preservation Inc.)
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(AP) - This undated photo released by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources shows part of Giant City State Park near Makanda, Ill. in Southern Illinois. (AP Photo/Adele Hodde, Illinois Dept of Natural Resources)
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(AP) - Hunter Platt puts plywood on the windows of his condo Friday Sept. 5, 2008, in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to strike the area early Saturday morning.(AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
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(AP) - Bill Vogel carries ice into his mother-in-law Delores Charpentier's home as his wife Holly Vogel, ;left, works to empty the freezer in Houma, La., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. The Vogels are helping Charpentier clean out her freezer after she returned home from evacuating for Hurricane Gustav. Charpentier still does not have power. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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(AP) - Buildings are flooded after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area along the coast in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Hanna has killed at least 137 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia)
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(AP) - Cain Faircloth takes advantage of the heavy surf in Holden Beach, NC., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna continues to near landfall. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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(AP) - One of five oriental small-clawed otter pubs, born a few days ago by six-year old mother Nora, is held by a keeper during their first veterinary examination in the Veszprem Zoo in Veszprem, 108 kilometers southwest of Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. All the five cubs are females, not longer than maximum 21 centimeters and weigh a maximum of 210 grams. (AP Photo/MTI, Lajos Nagy)
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(AFPTV) - Environmental campaigners demonstrated outside the Japanese embassies all over the world Wednesday against what they called the country's "appallingly cruel" hunting of dolphins.(AFPTV)
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(Reuters) - An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. (NASA/JHUAP/ Arizona State University/Handout/Reuters)
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(AFP/File) - View of the Pyrenees from Toulouse, France. Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers has said.(AFP/File/Pascal Pavani)
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(AFP) - An aerial view on September 5 of Gonaives after the passing of Tropical Storm Hanna. The European Commission launched "fast-track" aid action for Haiti, after the storm-hit Caribbean island appealed for international help.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)
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(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Hanna is visible approaching the Carolinas coast in a satellite image taken September 5, 2008. (Handout/Reuters)
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(Reuters) - Workers unload humanitarian aid from a Russian plane in Havana September 5, 2008. Russia, Cuba's former Cold War ally, flew in four planeloads of tents, electric cables and glass panels as part of the international help flowing into the island working to recover from devastating Hurricane Gustav. REUTERS/Claudia Daut (CUBA)
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(AFP) - Relief camp : An Indian flood affected family are seen at a makeshift relief camp in Banmankhi, some 400 kms north-east of Patna. (AFP/Diptendu Dutta)
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(AP) - In this undated photo released by the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, David Hayes holds his state record-breaking channel catfish while his three-year-old granddaughter Alyssa holds the Barbie rod and reel that Hayes used to reel in the 21-pound, 1 ounce fish in Elkin, N.C. (AP Photo/N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission)
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(AP) - A surfer rushes across the beach in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, to take advantage of the surf generated by Tropical Storm Hanna. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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(AP) - Crewmembers secure the Nationwide race car of Joey Legano inside the hauler as inclement weather from Tropical Storm Hanna approaches at Richmond International Raceway Friday Sept. 5, 2008 in Richmond Va. NASCAR postponed all weekend activities including the Nationwide series race and the Sprint Cup series race till Sunday.(AP Photo/Scott K. Brown)
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(AP) - This picture made in the late 1950s provided by the Dallas Zoo shows Jenny, the gorilla. The oldest gorilla in captivity, the 55-year-old female Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo, her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/The Dallas Zoo)
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(AP) - Jenny, a Western Lowland Gorilla and the world's oldest captive gorilla, celebrates her 55th birthday at the Dallas Zoo in a Thursday, May 8, 2008 file photo. Jenny has died at her home in the Dallas Zoo, a spokesman said Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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(AP) - A 35-foot-long fishing boat rests on the center of Highway 90 near Ft. Pike, La., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The boat was washed up to the highway from a boat yard when when Hurricane Gustav hit the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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(AP) - A 35-foot-long fishing boat rests on the center of Highway 90 near Ft. Pike, La., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The boat was washed up to the highway from a boat yard when when Hurricane Gustav hit the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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(AFP/File) - Two men stand atop the wreckage of their houses after the passage of Hurricane Gustav, in Paso Real de San Diego, Pinar del Rio province, 100 km west of Havana, in August 2008. The US government has offered Cuba humanitarian aid for its citizens affected by Hurricane Gustav, but through non-government channels, the State Department said Friday.(AFP/File/Str)
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