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Michael DeGeer looks around as people line the streets during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square...

A pre-Columbian Ceramic vessel from Costa Rica, in the Minor C. Keith Collection at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, Dec. 14, 2010. The Brooklyn Muse...

FILE -- The exterior of Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, Feb. 17, 2009. The newly renovated Lincoln Center campus makes a good case...

Michael DeGeer looks around as people line the streets beneath during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. Th...

A sea of blue balloons fill one corner of Times Square during the New Year's Eve celebration in New York, Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathe...

FILE -- Traders work on the floor of the Stock Exchange in New York, May 6, 2010, during the brief 1,000-point drop, the so-called flash crash. Unempl...

Police officers set up crowd control barricades ahead of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is a...

Karim Simmons waits with a crowd gathered for the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual g...

A crowd gathers for the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathering place to watch the...

A police officer adjusts a woman's tiara as a crowd gathers for the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The squa...

Crowds line the street during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathering place to...

John Doherty, the New York sanitation commissioner, right, at a press conference alongside New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York, Dec. 30, 2010...

A schedule with a store's operating hours on display at a state liquor store in Forest City, Pa., Dec. 29, 2010. Since the election in November of a R...

Sue Bires, who was laid off from an Orlando, Fla., job managing homeowners' associations, in Austin, Texas, Dec. 24, 2010. Bires eventually filed for...

A clock at the Direct Edge office counts down to the opening of financial markets in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec. 17, 2010. The company, which formally...

FILE -- New York Giants tight end Bear Pascoe (86) fails to stop the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson (10) as he returns a punt for a...

STANDALONE -- Revelers welcome in the new year while watching fireworks explode off of Taipai101, one of the tallest buildings in the world, in Taipei...

STANDALONE -- Revelers welcome in the new year while watching fireworks explode off of Taipai101, one of the tallest buildings in the world, in Taipei...

FILE -- Andrew Zambelli, left, with Andrew Cuomo, center, and John Marino in 1986. The new administration in New York state includes many aides to And...

Andrew Cuomo, flanked by his companion, Sandra Lee, daughters, mother and father, former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, was sworn in as governor of New York in...

Guests outside the Lincoln Ristorante, the new two-story dining place that recently opened at Lincoln Center and has a popular tilting grass roof, in...

FILE -- A raised grove of trees and a reflecting pool (foreground) dot the West Plaza of the newly renovated Lincoln Center campus, which now blends i...

Confetti flies over Times Square during the New Year's Eve celebration in New York, Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathering place to watch th...

Confetti flies over a large crowd of people taking part in the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is...

Police officers set up crowd control barricades ahead of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is a...

Police watch crowds during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathering place to wa...

Tobi Kahn, a critically acclaimed artist who has created art for hospices, hospitals and memorial chapels, in his studio in New York, Dec. 29, 2010. O...

Eileen Wood, a vice president at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, with co-pay coupons at the company's offices in Albany, N.Y., Dec. 29, 2010...

Tamara Starr, who no longer received a co-pay discount for her medications after moving to Massachusetts, in Boston, Dec. 23, 2010. In their fight aga...

Andrei Girenkov, a chief programmer for Direct Edge, with colleagues at a restaurant in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec. 17, 2010. The company, which formal...

Lorenzo Alexander, a business analyst, works at Direct Edge in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec. 17, 2010. The company, which formally became a stock exchang...

FILE -- New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin with quaterback Eli Manning during the second half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins...

Murat Karayilan, leader of the Kurdistan Worker's Party, near Qandil, Iraq, on Dec. 1, 2010. Karayilan, who has led the party since 1999, no longer ca...

A pre-Columbian Ceramic vessel from Costa Rica, in the Minor C. Keith Collection at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, Dec. 14, 2010. The Brooklyn Muse...

Guests at Lincoln Center's renovated plaza in New York, Dec. 28, 2010. The plaza's main stairs slope gently down to Columbus Avenue and welcome those...

People gather for the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathering place to watch the W...

People take part in the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual gathering place to watch the...

Sue Bires, who was laid off from an Orlando, Fla., job managing homeowners' associations, at a call center where she now works in Austin, Texas, Dec....

FILE -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in his office in Santa Fe, N.M., Aug. 11, 2010. Richardson announced Friday that he would not pardon Billy the...

Barbara Warnock-Morgan, who had adjustable gastric banding, a form of bariatric surgery, in New York, Dec. 22, 2010. Morgan's insurance covered her ga...

People wear themed glasses as they gather for the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square in New York, on Dec. 31, 2010. The square is an annual ga...

A group of army cadets from Xian, China, pose in front of statues of leaders of the Communist Party in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tourist attrac...

Cigarettes left by tourists as offerings on a bed where Mao Zedong allegedly slept in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tourist attractions in Yan'an t...

A photo studio's display of tourist's pictures in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tourist attractions in Yan'an try to evoke the glory days of the Ch...

A soldier and other tourists in front of a house where Mao Zedong lived during World War II in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tourist attractions in...

Mao Zedong souvenirs for sale in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tourist attractions in Yan'an try to evoke the glory days of the Chinese Communist P...

An army cadet from Xian, China, with a red flag in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tourist attractions in Yan'an try to evoke the glory days of the C...

Actors in "The Defense of Yan'an," a re-enactment of a crucial moment in the Chinese civil war, wait for the show to start before it was canceled afte...

Actors in "The Defense of Yan'an," a re-enactment of a crucial moment in the Chinese civil war, wait for the show to start before it was canceled afte...

Tourists visit the Yangjialing Assembly Hall, where Mao Zedong was confirmed as leader of the Communist Party, in Yan'an, China, on Oct. 27, 2010. Tou...