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Day in photos Florida voting lines, Sandy relief efforts, a neural-controlled Bionic leg and more.
Nov. 4, 2012
A man in traditional Papua dress prepares to greet Britain’s Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in Sir John Guise Stadium after a cultural performance in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The royal couple were in Papua New Guinea on the first leg of a Diamond Jubilee Tour that also includes Australia and New Zealand.
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Flying octopuses loom large at the annual Cape Fear Kite Festival at Shell Island in Wilmington, N.C.
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Wilmington, N.C., Star-News via AP
Nov. 3, 2012
South Floridians stand in line during the last day of early voting in Miami. A judge extended early-voting hours in one Florida county Sunday after Democrats sued to allow more time in a presidential battleground state where more than 4 million ballots have already been cast.
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Nov. 4, 2012
Diana Camacho, left, chants “We want to vote!” after a Miami-Dade County elections office in closed its doors to voters who waited in long lines for an absentee ballot in Doral, Fla. The doors were later reopened.
Alan Diaz
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Nov. 4, 2012
A worker repairs damage to the steeple of the First United Methodist Church in Port Jefferson, N.Y. in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
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Nov. 3, 2012
People in cars and on foot line up for free gas in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Craig Ruttle
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
New York’s marathon runners carry relief supplies through a damaged neighborhood on Staten Island. More than 1,000 people, many of whom had planned to run the race, which was canceled, crowded onto two ferries headed to the stricken borough to assist victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Adrees Latif
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Reuters
Nov. 2, 2012
Two Coast Guard Dolphin HH-65ChHelicopters land aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp. The Navy has three ships stationed outside New York’s harbor to assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency and local authorities in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
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Nov. 4, 2012
Traffic flows north on the New Jersey Turnpike past a fuel warning sign near Woodbridge. In addition to the gas shortages in the metro area, about 1 million homes and businesses across New Jersey were still without electricity Sunday due to Superstorm Sandy.
Matt Slocum
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) joins Janet Napolitano, left, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, N.J., during a news conference in Hoboken. As the Garden States continues to recover from Superstorm Sandy, worries are growing for a storm set to hit the East Coast Wednesday.
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Nov. 4, 2012
Gail Anderson, 74, center, who was born and raised in Seaside Park, N.J., talks with a friend waiting in a long line after she voted at a temporary polling center set up at the Ocean County Courthouse in Toms River, N.J. The area is still reeling from the affects of Superstorm Sandy.
Paul J. Richards
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Nov. 4, 2012
Oleh Skavysh holds a chain in his teeth as he pulls a tram in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. A pediatrician, Skavysh pulled the 19.5-ton tram 6.38 meters, setting a new record in the country.
Yuriy Dyachyshyn
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 4, 2012
Track President Eddie Gossage, left, ducks as Jimmie Johnson fires blanks out of a revolver while celebrating in the victory lane following his win in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.
Tim Sharp
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AP
Nov. 4, 2012
Zac Vawter, a 31-year-old software engineer from Seattle, prepares to climb Chicago’s 103-story Willis Tower using the world's first neural-controlled bionic leg. According to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, its Center for Bionic Medicine has worked to develop technology that allows amputees such as Vawter to better control prosthetics with their thoughts.
John Gress
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Reuters
Nov. 4, 2012
Zac Vawter and his father, John Vawter, look on as friend Michael Jacobson does a headstand after the younger Vawter climbed to the top of Chicago’s 103-story Willis Tower using the world's first neural-controlled bionic leg.
John Gress
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Reuters
Nov. 4, 2012
Volunteers pour scrambled eggs into a large skillet to create a 5,028-egg omelette during the 28th annual Giant Omelette Celebration in Abbeville, La.
Paul Kieu
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Lafayette, La., Daily Advertiser via AP
Nov. 3, 2012
Former steel factory worker Zarko Hrgic, 57, searches for food in a garbage bin in Crkvice, part of the central Bosnian town of Zenica. Hrgic has been living in a cave near Zenica since he was deported five years ago from Germany, where he was an undocumented immigrant.
Dado Ruvic
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Reuters
Nov. 3, 2012
Former steel factory worker Zarko Hrgic, 57, holds food that he found at in a garbage bin in Zenica, Bosnia. His day starts with searching for food as well as cigar butts, from which he makes improvised cigars.
Dado Ruvic
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
Russian servicemen, dressed in historical uniform, take part in a military parade rehearsal in Moscow’s Red Square. The parade will be held Wednesday to mark the anniversary of when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square in 1941, toward the front lines in World War II.
Sergei Karpukhin
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Reuters
Nov. 5, 2012
A child pushes a wheelbarrow at a brick factory on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan. Over one-third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a recent U.N. report said.
Aref Karimi
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 5, 2012
A child arranges bricks at a factory on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan.
Aref Karimi
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 4, 2012
Two girls who fled with their family from the violence in their Syrian village sit in front of a fire next to their tent at a camp in the village of Atma, near the Turkish border.
Khalil Hamra
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
An Indian woman puts earthen lamps into a bucket with color at her shop in Mumbai.
Rafiq Maqbool
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AP
Nov. 5, 2012
A toy parachute is shot into the air at sunset on Juhu Beach in Mumbai.
Rajesh Kumar Singh
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