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This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Earl taken at 12:45 a.m. EDT Thursday Sept. 2, 2010. As of Wednesday night, Earl was a powerful Category 4 hurricane centered more than 520 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., with winds of 140 mph. (AP Photo/NASA)
In an Aug. 5, 2010, photo, former Hofstra football players Keith Ferrara, left, and Luke Bonus look out over the football field, now used by Hofstra's lacrosse team and for high school football games, at Hofstra University in Uniondale, N.Y. Hofstra administrators cut football last December. The school cited financial reasons and a lack of fan interest but the move shocked the school's 84 players. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Washington Nationals left fielder Roger Bernadina catches a ball hit by Chicago Cubs Aramis Ramirez during the sixth inning of their baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The Cubs beat the Nationals, 9-1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
osario Lucero, left, listens during a news conference Monday, April 19, 2010 after the killer of her son, Marcelo Lucero, was convicted of manslaughter at the Suffolk County courthouse in Riverhead, N.Y.   Jeffery Conroy, 19, a, former high school athlete who plunged a knife into the chest of the Ecuadorean immigrant during a street fight was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime Monday but acquitted of murder. Right is Lucero's brother Joselo Lucero. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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