Dean hits Yucatan, misses tourist spots and weakens

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Soldiers check a destroyed house after Hurricane Dean passed in Majahual, southeastern Mexico in the Yucatan peninsula, Tuesday, Aug. 21 2007. The eye of the storm made landfall near Majahual, a popular port with cruise liners, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east-northeast of Chetumal and the Belize border.