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CHICKEN RUN Vladislav Maikov takes his chickens to the roof of a flooded house to save them from rising waters, on the outskirts of regional capital of Yakutsk about 3,000 miles east of Moscow. Emergency workers using heavy trucks dumped sand to reinforce dikes around this Siberian city against the ice-swollen Lena River. Photographed May 22, 2001. |  |