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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Jan. 5, 2011. Gibbs, close confidante to President Bar...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Jan. 5, 2011. Gibbs, close confidante to President Bar...

FILE -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes questions during his first press briefing in the White House in Washington on Jan. 22, 2009....

FILE -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) talks with his campaign communications director Robert Gibbs, left, and political...

FILE -- President Barack Obama confers with Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, aboard Marine One after touring the DeSoto Next Generation...

FILE -- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to the President, right, confer while President Barack Obama holds...

Philippa Raschker, 63, in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 21, 2010. Raschker has set more than 200 masters track and field records and still holds 63 United State...

FILE -- Nina Olson, the National Tax Advocate who acts as an ombudsman for the IRS, in Washington, April 8, 2009. Olson joined in on other various ca...

FILE -- Nina Olson, the National Tax Advocate who acts as an ombudsman for the IRS, in Washington, April 8, 2009. Olson joined in on other various cal...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs briefs reporters at the White House in Washington on Jan. 5, 2011. Gibbs, close confidante to President Bar...

FILE -- Securities and Exchange commissioner Hugh F. Owens during a meeting on July 30, 1964. After news broke of the investment by Goldman Sachs in t...

Newly designated House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) accepts the gavel from now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the House Chamber at...

Newly designated House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) holds up the gavel after a hand-off from now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the...

Incoming Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is sworn in by Vice President Joseph Biden at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. As the 112th Cong...

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), bottom left, administers the Oath of Office to incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in the House Chamber at the C...

Newly designated House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) accepts the gavel from now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the House Chamber at...

Newly elected House Speaker John Boehner waits for new House members to arrive in the Rayburn Room to swear them in, at the Capitol in Washington, Wed...

Newly designated House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) acknowledges his family before accepting the gavel from now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D...

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) heads to the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. As the 112th Congress is sworn in on...

Thatcher Wine, who owns Juniper Books, at his warehouse in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 2, 2010. Wine creates customized libraries for collectors and comme...

Jeffrey Colle, a builder who specializes in estates, in the library of a home where he installed bookcases in Bridgehampton, N.Y., on Jan. 4, 2011. Co...

Chuck Roberts at his warehouse for Wonder Books in Frederick, Md., on Jan. 3, 2011. Roberts, who has a retail business as well, sells books by the foo...

Ariel Pink performs at the Rock & Roll Circus in the Big Apple Circus tent in New York, on Jan. 4, 2011. The musician, who has been recording low-fi p...

Megan and Michael Rosker with their children, from left, Jude Rosker, 2, Eli Gorman, 6, and Coko Rosker, 3, in the old sunroom of their home in Reding...

Incoming Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) is sworn in by Vice President Joseph Biden at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. As the 112th Cong...

Pennsylvania Republican State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe and other representative members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration, speak at the National P...

FILE -- New York Jets punter Steve Weatherford, left, during practice at New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., June 16, 2010. A year after...

Debbie Boehner, center, wife of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), with her daughters Tricia, left, and Lindsay, right, at the opening session in th...

Philippa Raschker, 63, in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 21, 2010. Raschker has set more than 200 masters track and field records and still holds 63 United State...

Philippa Raschker, 63, in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 21, 2010. Sprints are Raschker's specialty, but she was a women's pole-vault pioneer and competed agains...

Christmas trees for sale on 110th Street and Broadway, near where Andre Aciman waited to pick up his eldest son from his school bus for many years, in...

John Russell, head of the Windward School, speaks with students after an assembly at the school in White Plains, N.Y., on Dec. 17, 2010. The school, w...

From left: Jed Miley, a teacher, Angel Oriz, Jesse Statman and Gani Parrott play during a music class at the Smith School in New York, on Dec. 17, 201...

Ariel Pink climbs a tent pole while singing at the Rock & Roll Circus in the Big Apple Circus tent in New York, on Jan. 4, 2011. The musician, who has...

Sarah Wilson, with Benjamin, 6, and Laura, 3, in Strodsburg, Pa, Dec. 27, 2010. Wilson has embraced a growing movement to restore the sometimes-untidy...

Kevin Sandberg of Gazelle.com, a reCommerce service that helps consumers sell and recycle used electronics, near a box of electronics waiting to be re...

Dan Myers of Gazelle.com, a reCommerce service that helps consumers sell and recycle used electronics, at the company's offices in Boston, Dec. 29, 20...

Josh Mohrer, right, and Petra Cramer sort through discarded electronics at their apartment in New York, Dec. 24, 2010. A research group that supports...

Newly designated House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is given the gavel from now House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the House Chamber at...

A view of quorum call for the opening day of congress at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 5, 2011. As the 112th Congress is sworn in on Wednesday, Repu...

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House Speaker-designate, makes his way to the House Chamber prior to his swearing-in ceremony, at the Capitol in Washi...

Delegate to the House Rep. Donna Christian-Christensen (D-V.I.) eats lunch in the Capitol Rotunda, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 20...

New Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), right, is greeted by fellow new member Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) in the Cannon House office building, at the Capitol in...

Thatcher Wine, who owns Juniper Books, at his warehouse in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 2, 2010. Wine creates customized libraries for collectors and comme...

A library with custom book jackets in New York, on Jan. 4, 2011. Designers are still making spaces with shelves and are turning to custom library comp...

The kitchen of Stephanie Giribone and Mohamed Zefifene's home in Marrakesh, Morocco, Dec. 22, 2010. The small kitchen has open shelving and a gas stov...

The living room of Stephanie Giribone and Mohamed Zefifene's home in Marrakesh, Morocco, Dec. 22, 2010. They purchased the chest of drawers at the Sou...

The living room of Stephanie Giribone and Mohamed Zefifene's home in Marrakesh, Morocco, Dec. 22, 2010. The room is anchored by a plaster-covered fire...

The bathroom of Stephanie Giribone and Mohamed Zefifene's home in Marrakesh, Morocco, Dec. 22, 2010. The sink in the master bathroom is made of poured...

Benches at a rock face in Red Rock Canyon, Nev., on Dec. 13, 2010. Vandals have found the trails in the canyon and in other western states that Indian...