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Michelle Solomon, 15, purchases goods at J.C. Penney in New York, Dec. 26, 2010. Shoppers spent more money this holiday season than at any time since...

Items for sale on display at Skeletons in the Closet, the gift shop run by the Los Angeles County coroner's department in Los Angeles, Dec. 23, 2010....

A member of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division during a clearing operation in the town of Jum'ah Kala, in Ghazni Pr...

A member of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division carries out a shell found in a hay storage area during a clearing op...

Items for sale on display at Skeletons in the Closet, the gift shop run by the Los Angeles County coroner's department in Los Angeles, Dec. 23, 2010....

Items for sale on display at Skeletons in the Closet, the gift shop run by the Los Angeles County coroner's department in Los Angeles, Dec. 23, 2010....

Items for sale on display at Skeletons in the Closet, the gift shop run by the Los Angeles County coroner's department in Los Angeles, Dec. 23, 2010....

Andrew Perrin, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociologist who is working to fight grade inflation, in Chapel Hill, N.C., Nov. 19, 2010....

Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, in New York, Nov. 4, 2010. Emmert said he was going to put the welfare of student athletes first, but his deci...

From left: Sumaira Murtaza, Sana Qureshi, Uzma Ali and Anum Tanweer, employees of Makro Wholesale Centre, ride a van provided by Makro to protect the...

Rabia Sultana, center, works at a McDonalds in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 10, 2010. Women in Pakistan are entering service sector jobs to support their f...

Sana Qureshi, second from right, works at the customer development department at Makro Wholesale Centre in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 10, 2010. Women in...

Anum Tanweer, right, works in the fruit and vegetable section at Makro Wholesale Centre in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 10, 2010. Women in Pakistan are ent...

Rabia Sultana, a female worker, at her workplace in a McDonalds in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 10, 2010. Sultana's family is angry she has to interact wit...

Suneela Yusuf, left, and her sister Neelam, both females who work at clothing stores, at their home in Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 10, 2010. Women in Paki...

Lee Amaitis, the president and chief executive of Cantor Gaming, a subsidiary of the Wall Street bond powerhouse Cantor Fitzgerald, at the sports book...

FILE -- Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) questions Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator David Strickland at a...

Janece White, vice president of Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, who specializes in underwriting jewelry, in her office at Chubb Personal Insurance...

Janece White, vice president of Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, who specializes in underwriting jewelry, in her office at Chubb Personal Insurance...

FILE -- Roy R. Neuberger amid his collection at the Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University campus at Purchase, N.Y., May 20, 1974. Neuberger,...

Scott Augustine, an anesthesiologist, demonstrates a patient warming device at his company's headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn., Dec. 13, 2010. Augus...

Scott Augustine, an anesthesiologist, in front of a wall covered in patent awards at his company's headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn., Dec. 13, 2010....

Scott Augustine, an anesthesiologist in Minnesota, in his office in Eden Prairie, Minn., Dec. 13, 2010. Augustine, who invented the Bair Hugger, which...

Shirts are displayed at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Farmers Market is...

A cook prepares a grill at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Farmers Market...

A patron shops at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Farmers Market is at the...

A patron shops at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Farmers Market is at the...

The Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Farmers Market is at the center of a dispu...

A farmer displays vegetables at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Farmers Ma...

Catherine Hurlin, left, and Tyler Maloney perform in Alexei Ratmansky's new version of "The Nutcracker" at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New Yo...

Sarah Lane, left, and Daniil Simkin perform in Alexei Ratmansky's new version of "The Nutcracker" at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, De...

Kenneth Easter performs as Mother Ginger with fellow dancers in Alexei Ratmansky's new version of "The Nutcracker" at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera Hous...

David Hallberg, right, and Gillian Murphy perform in Alexei Ratmansky's new version of "The Nutcracker" at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New Yo...

Winston Perez at his home in Los Angeles, on Dec. 21, 2010. Perez is using his "Concept Modeling" process to help producers get to the essence of the...

Winston Perez's "Concept Modeling" process applied to "Band on the Run," a film in development, in a photo of a screen in Los Angeles, on Dec. 21, 201...

Robert Ahleman outside his home in Bensalem, Pa., Dec. 18, 2010. Ahleman and his wife, Amy, say the modification they received on their mortgage has g...

Amy and Robert Ahleman, who received a modification on their mortgage, outside their home in Bensalem, Pa., Dec. 18, 2010. A substantial modification...

Robert Ahleman at home with his family, who received a modification on their mortgage, in Bensalem, Pa., Dec. 18, 2010. A substantial modification of...

Amy and Robert Ahleman at home in Bensalem, Pa., Dec. 18, 2010. They say the modification they received on their mortgage has given them a life-changi...

Amy Ahleman at home in Bensalem, Pa., Dec. 18, 2010. Ahleman and her husband, Robert, say the modification they received on their mortgage has given t...

Hadley Nagel, a socialite, advocate and debutante, right, with her mother, Susan Nagel, at Doubles club in New York, Dec. 19, 2010. Hadley is one of 3...

Hadley Nagel, a socialite, advocate and debutante, center, greets friends at Doubles club in New York, Dec. 19, 2010. Nagel is one of 30 young ladies...

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, right, presents Hadley Nagel, a socialite, advocate and debutante, with the ring he designed for her sorority in New Yor...

Hadley Nagel, a socialite, advocate and debutante, wears the ring she had designed for her sorority in New York, Dec. 20, 2010. Nagel is one of 30 you...

Jayne Sandman, right, and Barbara Martin, third from left, during an Urban Daddy and Porsche event at the Longview Gallery in Washington, on Oct. 8, 2...

Jayne Sandman during an Urban Daddy and Porsche event at the Longview Gallery in Washington, on Oct. 8, 2010. Sandman and Barbara Martin produce event...

Jayne Sandman, right, and Barbara Martin during an Urban Daddy and Porsche event at the Longview Gallery in Washington, on Oct. 8, 2010. Sandman and M...

Mary Ann Wright, vice president for technology and innovation at Johnson Control's power solutions division, in Milwaukee, Wis., on Dec. 17, 2010. Wri...

Jim Taylor, chief executive of Amp Electric Vehicles, on Belle Isle in Detroit, on Dec. 17, 2010. Taylor worked on small and large engineering teams f...

People decorate a Christmas tree with star-shaped photos of terrorist attack victims that took place at Our Lady of Salvation church in October, at th...