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Aid Worker Describes Indonesia Devastation

Oct. 5, 2009
Relief workers have called off the search for survivors of last week's earthquake in Indonesia. The death toll could reach into the thousands. Mike Penrose of Save the Children says in many areas his group has traveled through, 80-90 percent of properties are uninhabitable.
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch