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Spectators watch powerboat races from the vantage point of Mallory Square, home of the daily Key West Sunset Celebration, Nov. 9, 2008 in Key West, F...

The 35th street signed is nearly submerged after Hurricane Ike passed though Galveston, September 13 2008. (Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times)

A man watches the surf kicked up by approaching Hurricane Ike, near Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, Sept. 12, 2008. (Beatrice de Gea/The New York Tim...

A volunteer takes a break as others continue to fill sandbags in Winfield, Mo., June 19, 2008. The swollen Mississippi River continued to spread destr...

Safia Ali, 25, in the village of Galkayo, Somalia, May 14, 2008. Ali had not eaten in a week and was too frail to leave her tent. Three seasons with l...

Residents push a cart laden with relief supplies past a boarded-up business in Galveston, Texas, Sept. 15, 2008. State officials conducted the largest...

Vickey Thomas, 65, who is unable to walk, was evacuated from her ninth floor apartment by National Guard troops and Border Patrol agents in Galveston,...

Fiona examines a snow man and his snow dog at the dog park inside of Brookdale Park in Montclair, N. J. in February, 2008. (Timothy Ivy/The New York...

John Schwartz of The New York Times testing a jetpack July 27, 2008 in Fond Du Lac. The jetpack was unveiled Tuesday, July 29th at an air show in Wisc...

Students from St. Michael Catholic School give a "high five" to a six-foot-tall photographic cutout of Pope Benedict XVI in the gift shop at the Basil...

Abu Abed, 84, returned to what remained of Hit'tin, in May, 2008, the former Arab village in northern Israel where he was born. He fled with his famil...

A worker cleans pig intestines in Xinwangzhuang village, China, Feb. 25, 2008. Lining from the intestines is processed into crude heparin. (Ariana Lin...

A volunteer feeds a baby squirrel on Sept. 27, 2008, in Houston. Residents found the tiny animals in the leafy debris left behind by Hurricane Ike. Mo...

The wooden frames of the Riverstone development, near Merced, Calif., have bleached in the sun after sitting idle for more than a year, seen Aug. 24,...

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, left, and Cuba's President Raul Castro during a cermony at the Internationalist Soviet Soldier's Monument, Nov. 28,...

Flying kites in the evening sky over Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2008. One of the most difficult challenges President-elect Barack Obama's national s...

Supporters of Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister of Pakistan, celebrated election results in Lahore, February 18, 2008. (Tyler Hicks/The New York...

Fireworks during closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics at National Stadium in Beijing, also known as Bird's Nest, Aug. 24, 2008. (Chang W. Lee/The New...

A young girl stands amidst garbage in Cite Soleil, a densely populated slum in Port au Prince, Haiti, April 16, 2008. Haiti's hunger, that burn in th...

A patron at Refresh Food Plaza Restaurant, which looks out over Chhatrapatri Shivaji Station (also refered to as Victoria Station), looks at a sectio...

Firefighters Brad Palmer, left, and Gene Neely during a respite in the battle against stubborn wild fires near Concow, in Butte County, Calif., July...

Pope Benedict XVI greets representatives of other religions as he attends a ceremony at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, April 17...

A row of unsold Jeep Commander's at Birmingham Chrysler jeep in Troy, Mich., Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Record-high gasoline prices, a housing slump and w...

A man applies for a job at a job fair in Las Vegas on April 4, 2008. The nation's employers shed tens of thousands of jobs as the U.S. economy contin...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with other House Democrats, signs the financial bailout bill passed on Friday in Washington, Oct. 3, 2008. The House of R...

Birds nesting in the letters of the "CHRYSLER" dealership in Troy, Mich., July 1, 2008. Sales of new cars and trucks plunged to their lowest level in...

Sgt. Sherman Lightle, ret., of Port Charlotte, who served from 1948-57, weeps as he looks at the dress uniform of Marine Cpl. Eric Hall at the Faith L...

The Dalai Lama, center, with one of his personal assistants, right, in his headquarters in Dharamsala in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, May 12,...

U.S. soldiers remove a Humvee which was damaged in a in a car bombing in eastern Baghdad, May 1, 2008. A bomb-rigged parked car exploded when a U.S. p...

Migrant workers on a construction site in Beijing in April 2008. (Du Bin/The New York Times)

A man watches relief workers search for survivors May 18, 2008, at Renmin Hospital in Beichuan, following China's devastating earthquake. The quake ki...

A woman holds the had of a victim recovered from the rubble of what was the Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan, in China's Sichuan Province, May 14, 2008...

Relatives cradle the body of a young victim recovered from what was left of the Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan, China's Sichuan Province, May 14, 2008...

Sitting next to memorial candles, friends and family grieve over bodies of the young victims recovered from what was left of the Juyuan Middle School...

A car from Texas fueling up at a Pemex gasoline station in Juarez, Mexico, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, in June, 2008. Gasoline on the Me...

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, during a board meeting in Washington, July 14, 2008. (Brendan Smialowski/The New York Times)

Protesters against the war in Iraq hold up hands painted in red as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the House Appropriations Subco...

A man holds a bun and the 1 billion Zimbabwean dollars he says it costs to purchase it, in Harare, Zimbabwe, on June 24, 2008. Zimbabwe has the highes...

Georgian civilians reach for humanitarian aid being distributed in the village of Kedestavi, on the outskirts of Gori, Aug. 16, 2008. (Joao Silva/The...

A cloud of smoke is seen from the area where an explosion occured over a hill past a pedestrian crossing sign near Gori, Georgia, Aug. 14, 2008. The e...

Bodyguards shielded President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia on Aug. 11, 2008, as a Russian jet flew over the city of Gori. (Joao Silva/The New York T...

Joey Arias in "Arias With a Twist," at the Arts Center in New York, June 10, 2008. "Arias With a Twist," is a collaboration between singer Arias and d...

Big Brown gets a bath at his barn at Palm Meadows in Boynton Beach, Fla., on April 17, 2008. Big Brown, the winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preak...

Candles burn in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks outside the historic Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, November 30, 2008. (Ruth Fremson/ The N...

A pair of mens shoes lie abandoned on a sidewalk amidst shards of glass and debris outside the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, November 29, 2008 after Indian sec...

Haitians move a wrecked car using a hand cart in the Cite Soleil slum in Port Au Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Small signs of progress in Ha...

Actors dressed in characters from the 1968 film "Planet of the Apes" posed with tourists as they walked around Wall Street near the New York Stock Exc...

"UNKNOWN AFRICAN MAN" reads a piece of tape affixed to the head of a body as it lies in the morgue in Kisumu, Jan. 17, 2008. The man was shot, allege...

New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady (12), left, is sacked by New York Giant's Michael Strahan (92) during the second quarter of the Super Bowl...

Jamaica's Usain Bolt reacts after winning the men's 200-meter final at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Aug. 20, 2008. Bolt broke the world record with a...