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AP IMPACT: NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort (AP)

The shop of barber Amine Darhbach, a U.S. citizen from Morocco and located off Steinway Street in Astoria, N.Y., had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moracann population, is interviewed as he cuts hair, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. The New York Police Department subjected American citizens to surveillance and scrutiny, not because of any wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity. Documents obtained by The Associated Press describe a secret program known as the Moroccan Initiative, which catalogued where people of Moroccan ancestry shopped, ate and prayed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.


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Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact (AP)

Debris is shown at the Reno Air Races in Reno, Nev. on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 where pilot Jimmy Leeward crashed his plane on Friday. In the middle is a crater that authorities say is six feet six wide and three feet deep where the plane hit the ground. (AP Photo/Marilyn Newton, pool)AP – The scene of a Reno air race crash that killed nine people reveals the violence of the plane’s missile-like impact — a crater in the tarmac roughly 3 feet deep and 8 feet across with debris spread out over more than an acre.


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AP IMPACT: 35,000 worldwide convicted for terror (AP)

In this July 29, 2011 photo, Naciye Tokova, a Kurdish mother and housewife, who was sentenced to seven years in jail for helping rebels who are described by Turkey as terrorists, speaks during an interview in her home in Kurtalan, Siirt in southeastern Turkey. The key piece of evidence against Tokova, who is illiterate, was the sign that she held up at a protest. It said: 'Either a free leadership and free identity, or resistance and uprising until the end.' The punishment stems from the Turkish state's homegrown narrative of terrorism, one that pre-dates the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and is rooted in the bloody legacy of Kurdish rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan, jailed since 1999. Activists counter that Tokova was denied the right to free assembly and expression and hardly qualifies as a terrorist accomplice.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP – At least 35,000 people worldwide have been convicted as terrorists in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. But while some bombed hotels or blew up buses, others were put behind bars for waving a political sign or blogging about a protest.


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AP IMPACT: Quakes pose greater risk to US reactors (AP)

FILE - In this May 18, 2011 file photo, a worker  is seen in the area surrounding a tree farm in North Perry, Ohio, near the two cooling towers of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant looming in the background. The risk of an earthquake causing a severe accident at a nuclear power plant is up to 24 times greater than previously believed, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data, and the nation’s nuclear regulator believes that a quarter of reactors may need modifications to make them safer. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says more than two dozen plants in the eastern and central U.S. may need upgrades because they're more likely to get hit with an earthquake larger than the one their design was based on. It's a belated conclusion; for more than a decade, regulators ignored the evidence of increased quake risks.  (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP – The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation’s nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America’s reactors may need modifications to make them safer.


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AP IMPACT: Pakistani fertilizer fuels Afghan bombs (AP)

In this July 27, 2011 photo, sacks of fertilizer are held in wheelbarrows at Pakistani Chaman border post to be smuggled into the neighboring Afghanistan. The U.S. government believes that most of the bombs killing its troops in Afghanistan are made with a chemical fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan and American officials have launched an intense and so far unsuccessful push for regulation. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)AP – The main ingredient in most of the homemade bombs that have killed hundreds of American troops in Afghanistan is fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan, where the U.S. has been pushing unsuccessfully for greater regulation.


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AP IMPACT: Automation in the air dulls pilot skill (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, a plane burns after it crashed into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y.,  Authorities say it was Continental Airlines Flight 3407 operated by Manassas, Va.-based Colgan Air.  Airline industry and safety officials are concerned that pilots’ flying skills are becoming rusty and their ability to handle unexpected situations is eroding because most flying is delegated to computers in today’s highly automated planes.  (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP – Are airline pilots forgetting how to fly? As planes become ever more reliant on automation to navigate crowded skies, safety officials worry there will be more deadly accidents traced to pilots who have lost their hands-on instincts in the air.


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AP IMPACT: Some 9/11 charities failed miserably (AP)

In this Sept. 11, 2007 photo, American Quilt Memorial organizer Kevin Held holds up a photo of several quilts next to members of the Philadelphia Police Department as they display a section of quilt in Philadelphia. Held formed Stage 1 Productions in 2003 to promote the American Quilt Memorial honoring the lives lost on Sept. 11. He said thousands of individual pieces would be crafted together on white king-sized sheets that, when sewn together, would stretch 1 1/2 miles across an eight-lane highway. That never happened. The $713,000 that Held raised from students, school fundraising campaigns, T-shirt sales and other donations is gone. More than $270,000 of that went to Held and family members, records show. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Americans eager to give after the 9/11 terrorist attacks poured $1.5 billion into hundreds of charities established to serve the victims, their families and their memories. But a decade later, an Associated Press investigation shows that many of those nonprofits have failed miserably.


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