Several pieces of evidence at the crash site -- including a parachute believed to have been used as shelter from the sun -- indicate the strong probability Copping survived the landing.

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At a polling station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, voters queued in their hundreds, many of them seeking shelter from the sun under palm trees.

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One late afternoon as the sun turned golden yellow and the Pastor fixed the roof of the shelter, a man walked up to us and stood beside me.

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Elsewhere in the gardens, 18 "supertrees, " artificial treelike structures between nine and 16 stories high, will offer shelter from the blazing Singapore sun.

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You have climbed the hills with me to the mountain shelter, taken off the days one by one, setting them to breathe in the sun.

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