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A bird flies along the beach as Army National Guardsmen deploy a boom strip in Grand Isle, La., May 28, 2010. Teams of workers contracted by BP are cleaning up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began washing up on beaches here one month after the offshore drilling unit exploded.

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A bird flies along the beach as Army National Guardsmen deploy a boom strip in Grand Isle, La., May 28, 2010. Teams of workers contracted by BP are cleaning up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began washing up on beaches here one month after the offshore drilling unit exploded.

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