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Iraqi Christians attend services at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church in Baghdad, Dec. 24, 2010. Iraqi churches canceled or toned...

Iraqi Christians attend services at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church in Baghdad, Dec. 24, 2010. Iraqi churches canceled or toned...

Iraqi Christians attend services at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church in Baghdad, Dec. 24, 2010. Iraqi churches canceled or toned...

Security guards oversee the Christmas Eve Mass at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church in Baghdad, Dec. 24, 2010. Attendance has dro...

Iraqi Christians attend services at the Sacred Church of Jesus, a Chaldean Catholic church in Baghdad, Dec. 24, 2010. Iraqi churches canceled or toned...

A sign hangs on a door at the Los Angeles Film school on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the Hollywood Farmers...

Jack Bezian, a vendor, displays fruit at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Ivar Street in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2010. After 19 years in existence, the F...

From left: Al Gottlieb, Claire Gottlieb, Connie Stopol and Phil Stopol in Oceanside, N.Y., on Dec. 22, 2010. For 61 years, the Gottliebs and the Stopo...

Sara Ruto's children do homework under a new light at their home in Kiptusuri, Kenya, on Nov. 16, 2010. Ruto, who used to travel miles to charge her m...

Rennie Alba with his wife, Claire, and their children outside the Armory in Park Slope that houses the YMCA they intend to join, in New York, Dec. 19,...

FILE -- Jackie Robinson, center, discusses camp problems with camp directors Herbert Samuel, left, and Richard Kepler at Chock Full o' Nuts Employee's...

A convenience store lit by a solar lighting system open after dark in Kiptusuri, Kenya, on Nov. 16, 2010. Off-grid renewable energy sources are spread...

Sara Ruto displays the solar panel on her roof in Kiptusuri, Kenya, on Nov. 16, 2010. Ruto, who used to travel miles to charge her mobile phone at the...

Sara Ruto holds a small solar-powered LED light that can also charge cell phones at her home in Kiptusuri, Kenya, on Nov. 16, 2010. Ruto, who used to...

Sara Ruto's home in Kiptusuri, Kenya, on Nov. 16, 2010. Ruto, who used to travel miles to charge her mobile phone at the nearest town with electricity...

STANDALONE PHOTO -- Meghan Gonzalez, 6, dresses up as an angel at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York, Dec. 23, 2010. Assisi church will have Mas...

An employee walks past the front desk at the Al Akbhar newspaper offices in Beirut, on Dec. 9, 2010. The five-year-old newspaper, with ties to Hezboll...

Rouba Abu Amu, an editor of the international affairs desk, works at the Al Akbhar newspaper offices in Beirut, on Dec. 9, 2010. The five-year-old new...

An editor of the culture section works at the Al Akbhar newspaper offices in Beirut, on Dec. 9, 2010. The five-year-old newspaper, with ties to Hezbol...

FILE -- Pete Rouse, the interim chief of staff, during outgoing Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel's departure ceremony in the East Room of the White House,...

Bishop David Ricken, right, discusses the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where a Belgian immigrant named Adele Brise said she was visited three time...

Joanne Tardiff, of Gladstone, Mich., prays to the blessed Virgin Mary in the basement of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Belgian immigrant...

Edgar Cho, right, is helped by Caitlin Ruffin as he looks for a Christmas gift for his girlfriend at an Alexis Bittar store in New York, on Dec. 18, 2...

Visitors pray to the blessed Virgin Mary in the basement of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Adele Brise said she was visited three times by...

A sculpture of the Virgin Mary in a hallway at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Belgian immigrant named Adele Brise said she was visited thr...

Nicola Marchioro, right, is helped by Caitlin Ruffin as he looks for a Christmas gift for his girlfriend at an Alexis Bittar store in New York, on Dec...

Bishop David Ricken, discusses the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Belgian immigrant Adele Brise said she was visited three times by Mary in 18...

Crutches and canes hang on a wall, left behind by people who said to have been been healed, in a room at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Be...

Visitors pray to the blessed Virgin Mary in the basement of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Belgian immigrant Adele Brise said she was visi...

Visitors pray to the blessed Virgin Mary in the basement of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Belgian immigrant Adele Brise said she was visi...

Blessed rosaries for sale at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, the building where Belgian immigrant Adele Brise said she was visited three times by...

A view outside the building of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where Adele Brise said she was visited three times by the Virgin Mary in 1859 in C...

FILE -- Marina Poplavskaya, the Russian soprano, with Roberto Alagna as "Don Carlo" in the Opera "Don Carlo," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, N...

FILE -- Marina Poplavskaya, the Russian soprano, left, as Natasha Rostova and Alexej Markov as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in the opera "War and Peace" at...

Displaced passengers wait inside a large makeshift tent outside of Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport in London, Dec. 23, 2010. European flights were del...

FILE -- The American Electric Power Mitchell Power Plant burning coal in Moundsville, W.Va., Feb. 16, 2007. The Environmental Protection Agency announ...

Steve Harvey, the comedian and host on TV and radio, in New York, Dec. 6, 2010. After a career in comedy and TV, Harvey has written two advice books o...

FILE -- Daniel and Joanne Cicciaro hold a press conference outside their auto shop after John H. White was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for...

Displaced passengers wait outside Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport in London, Dec. 23, 2010. European flights were delayed and others canceled due to n...

Displaced passengers wait inside a large makeshift tent outside of Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport in London, Dec. 23, 2010. European flights were del...

FILE -- John H. White, center, during a break at his trial in the Criminal Courts Building in Riverhead, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2007. Gov. David Paterson ann...

Wendy Flammia, right, holds a photo of friend's husband, John McNamara, a 9/11 first responder who died of cancer, in Washington, Dec. 22, 2010. After...

Steve Harvey, the comedian and host on TV and radio, in New York, Dec. 6, 2010. After a career in comedy and TV, Harvey has written two advice books o...

James Caan, left, with Rio Chavarro of Openfilm, in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 20, 2010. Caan is chairman of the advisory board of Openfilm.com, a vid...

James Caan in the garden of his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 20, 2010. Caan is chairman of the advisory board of Openfilm.com, a video-hosting W...

James Caan in the garden of his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 20, 2010. Caan is chairman of the advisory board of Openfilm.com, a video-hosting W...

A member of the Trisha Brown dance troupe rehearses in the Museum of Modern Art atrium in New York, Dec. 13, 2010. Beginning Jan. 12, experimental dan...

FILE -- Singer Ke$ha (Kesha) in New York, Dec. 11, 2009. Melisma -- the vocal technique of packing a series of notes into one syllable -- has long bee...

FILE -- Katy Perry performs during the Z100 Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden in New York, Dec. 10, 2010. Melisma -- the vocal technique of packin...

Michael Shannon at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, on Dec. 20, 2010. Shannon is in the leading role of the off Broadway play "Mistakes Were Mad...