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An elderly woman lies on a baggage cart as she waits to be evacuated by U.S. Air Force military rescue workers from the triage unit inside the New Orleans International Airport September 4, 2005. New Orleans began the gruesome task of collecting its thousands of dead on Sunday as the Bush administration tried to save face after its botched rescue plans left the city at the mercy of Hurricane Katrina. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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Eric Leese sits on a couch in his flooded living room in Metairie, outside New Orleans September 5, 2005. Thousands of residents of suburban New Orleans returned on Monday to inspect homes wrecked by Hurricane Katrina and President George W. Bush went back to the disaster zone to quell a political crisis over bungled aid efforts. REUTERS/Lee Celano PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush dance on the Presidential Seal at the Commander-in-Chief Inauguration Ball at the National Building Museum in Washington, January 20, 2005. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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A man holding a baby uncovers the body of a dead man, suspected to have been sitting there for two days, outside the New Orleans Convention Center September 1, 2005. Several people among the thousands of stranded hurricane evacuees have died while waiting outside the building, with no sign of imminent help on the way. REUTERS/Rick Wilking PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana September 4, 2005. Residents continue to be rescued from their homes and the streets of the flood ravaged city. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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A man stands in flood waters as fire burns down a home in the seventh ward of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina September 6, 2005. The toxic brew of chemicals and human waste in the New Orleans floodwaters will have to be pumped into the Mississippi River or Lake Pontchartrain, raising the specter of an environmental disaster on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, experts say. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY A dog consumes the remains of a man near a breach in a levee in New Orleans, Louisiana
September 5, 2005. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has closed a major gap in the New Orleans levees battered by Hurricane Katrina and is pumping water from the flooded city, an agency spokesman said on Monday. REUTERS/Allen Fredrickson PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York
September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. REUTERS/Rick Wilking PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005
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