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document.write('<div class=\"hnews hentry item\"> By <span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">MIKE BAKER         </span></span> <span class=\"updated\" title=\"2010-09-02T13:18:42Z\">2010-09-02T13:18:42Z</span> <div class=\"entry-content\">BUXTON, N.C.     (AP) -- Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge would get to North Carolina\'s fragile chain of barrier islands....</div> </div></p>');
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