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While waiting to receive aid from a U.S. Navy medical team from the USS Kearsarge, two young girls peer through a split in the wall of a make-shift emergency room in Bangladesh, Nov. 29, 2007.

WAITING PATIENTLY

While waiting to receive aid from a U.S. Navy medical team from the USS Kearsarge, two young girls peer through a split in the wall of a make-shift emergency room in Bangladesh, Nov. 29, 2007.

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