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September 2005

 

 

A gas station in Stockbridge, Ga., posts prices for gasoline from $5.87 to $6.07 per gallon Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)

In this photo, provided by the Florida Keys News Service, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Confidence sails out of Key West, Fla., harbor Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, enroute to the Mississippi Delta. The 210-foot-medium-endurance cutter is to serve as a command and control center for Coast Guard helicopters involved in post-Hurricane Katrina rescue operations. Onboard the vessel are relief supplies for storm victims including, bottled water, nonperishable food and clothing donated by the Key West residents andtourism-related businesses. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Dan Baker)

A heavily armed Coast Guard sailor maintains a vigil around the facility in New Orleans on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. The facility is under heavy guard after incidents of rampant looting and a general breakdown of society following Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

An image released by Britain's Natural History Museum in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, showing Natural History Museum expert Stuart Hine with a giant centipede 'Scolopendra gigantea', which was found in a north London home. Aaron Balick, 32, a psychologist from Islington, north London, trapped the venomous centipede in a plastic box after he found it behind his TV and took it to the Natural History Museum. There, experts identified it as 'Scolopendra gigantea' - the world's largest species of centipede. The creature measured nine inches long by just under an inch wide (not including its legs). (AP Photo / Natural History Museum, PA)

A hand-painted sign outside a New Orleans business warns away looters in the wake of Hurricane Katrina Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Ethicists and social psychologists said in interviews that rules of human behavior _ including respect for others' property and for social order itself _ dissolve quickly in desperate circumstances like the storm's aftermath. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

 

 

So-called 'Naked Rambler' Stephen Gough(R) and his girlfriend Melanie Roberts(L), seen here in June 2005 while attempting to walk the length of Britain in the nude, were due to appear in court after being grabbed by police south of Edinburgh following a complaint by a member of the public(AFP/File)

Delicate balance : A dragonfly perched on a flower is pictured in Kyrenia, the Turkish part of Cyprus. (AFP/Stringer )

 

 

Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)