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Published June 02, 2010, 12:00 AM

Filling up a tiger dam


Louisiana National Guard Sgt. Chad Birch, left, fills up a tiger dam with water under floodlights on a beach in Grand Isle, La., Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The National Guard is working around the clock to complete the dam, which is designed to protect the island's entire shoreline along the Gulf of Mexico from oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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