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Joe Jonas, who has a debut solo album, "Fastlife," due out next month, performs at Sacks Fifth Avenue during fashion week in New York, Sept. 8, 2011....

Joe Jonas, who has a debut solo album, "Fastlife," due out next month, chats with designer Simon Spurr before a performance at Sacks Fifth Avenue duri...

Joe Jonas, who has a debut solo album, "Fastlife," due out next month, at the Trump SoHo in New York, Sept. 10, 2011. Once a mop-topped, purity-ring-w...

Joe Jonas, who has a debut solo album, "Fastlife," due out next month, at the Trump SoHo in New York, Sept. 10, 2011. Once a mop-topped, purity-ring-w...

Eric Glatt, who was an accounting intern for the movie, "Black Swan," at his apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 28, 2011. Glatt and...

Eric Glatt, who was an accounting intern for the movie, "Black Swan," at his apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 28, 2011. Glatt and...

Ari Seth Cohen, creator of the blog Advanced Style, at his apartment in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. Unlike countless other street-style bloggers Cohen h...

Hamid Biglari, a Citicorp vice chairman and chief of emerging market, who said "you have to figure out how to work with the cultural norms of differen...

The new Kindle Fire tablet at an Amazon event in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. The company said the Fire will cost $199 and features a new web browser, Am...

From left: the Amazon Kindle, Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch at an Amazon event in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. The company said the Fire will cost $199 an...

Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, introduces the new Kindle Touch e-reader in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. Bezos also announced the new Fire tab...

Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, introduces the new Kindle Fire tablet in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. Bezos said the Fire will cost $199 and f...

Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, introduces the new Kindle Fire tablet in New York, Sept. 28, 2011. Bezos said the Fire will cost $199 and f...

Glen Mazzara, right, the recently appointed show runner for "The Walking Dead" cable series, and Robert Kirkman, the creator of the comics series that...

J. Michael Flanagan, left, and Naug Gourjian, right, defense attorneys, sit with their client, Conrad Murray, during Murray's involuntary manslaughter...

Conrad Murray watches during the defense's opening statement at Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles, on Sept. 27, 2011. In his open...

Conrad Murray, watching with J. Michael Flanagan, left, a member of his defense team, wipes his eyes during the defense's opening statement at his inv...

Dave Grohl, lead singer and guitarist of the Foo Fighters, performs with the band at the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, N.J., Sept. 26, 2011. Grohl,...

Dave Grohl, lead singer and guitarist of the Foo Fighters, performs with the band at the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, N.J., Sept. 26, 2011. Grohl,...

Dave Grohl, lead singer and guitarist of the Foo Fighters, performs with the band at the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, N.J., Sept. 26, 2011. Grohl,...

A worker sets rope rigging around the top of the Washington Monument to prepare for rappelling in Washington, Sept. 27, 2011. The worker fastened rope...

A worker sets rope rigging around the top of the Washington Monument to prepare for rappelling in Washington, Sept. 27, 2011. Engineers began rappelli...

A worker sets rope rigging around the top of the Washington Monument to prepare for rappelling in Washington, Sept. 27, 2011. Engineers plan to inspec...

A worker sets rope rigging around the top of the Washington Monument to prepare for rappelling in Washington, Sept. 27, 2011. Engineers plan to inspec...

A worker sets rope rigging around the top of the Washington Monument to prepare for rappelling in Washington, Sept. 27, 2011. Engineers plan to inspec...

A worker sets rope rigging around the top of the Washington Monument to prepare for rappelling in Washington, Sept. 27, 2011. Engineers plan to inspec...

An assortment of meats at South City Meat and Deli, in a largely Bosnian neighborhood of St. Louis, Sept. 6, 2011. In St. Louis, Bosnian immigrants n...

FILE -- A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hangs on a wall in the receiving room of the Convent of St. Talka in Malula, Syria, March 28, 2...

A group of University of California, Berkeley students join hands and march on the college's Sproul Plaza during a protest against a bake sale sponsor...

A group of University of California, Berkeley students stage a "die in" on the college's Sproul Plaza during a protest against a bake sale sponsored b...

Bill Herrmann walks along a natural gas pipeline that Whiting Petroleum is constructing near Belfield, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the na...

Rat Island, a 2.5-acre bit of rock near City Island, in New York, Sept. 22, 2011. The owner of Rat Island, which is mostly flooded at high tide, is pu...

Rat Island, a 2.5-acre bit of rock near City Island, in New York, Sept. 22, 2011. The owner of Rat Island, which is mostly flooded at high tide, is pu...

Cormorants perch on the rocks at Rat Island, a 2.5-acre bit of rock near City Island, in New York, Sept. 22, 2011. The owner of Rat Island, which is m...

Workers at Whiting Petroleum's Pronghorn plant install storage tanks in Belfield, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the natural gas produced in...

Troy Anderson, the lead operator at Whiting Petroleum's Robinson Lake Gas plant, looks at the inlet pipe that brings gas into the plant where it is pr...

A ground flare burns gas at a well near Ray, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is burned as waste, in...

A natural gas pipeline that Whiting Petroleum is constructing near Belfield, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the natural gas produced in Nort...

A ground flare burns in the distance as a trucker loads his rig with crude oil at a well near Stanley, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the na...

A ground flare burns gas in a field near Stanley, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is burned as waste...

A ground flare burns gas at a pad in Belfield, N.D., Sept. 3, 2011. About 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is burned as waste, i...

A Starbucks cup and glass of wine at a Starbucks restaurant in Seattle, Sept. 22, 2011. In an attempt to increase their revenue, outlets that speciali...

A Starbucks cup and glass of wine at a Starbucks restaurant in Seattle, Sept. 22, 2011. In an attempt to increase their revenue, outlets that speciali...

John Lithgow in New York, Sept. 14, 2011. Lithgow's new memoir, "Drama: An Actor's Education," which comes out on Tuesday, recounts a life that after...

John Lithgow in New York, Sept. 14, 2011. Lithgow's new memoir, "Drama: An Actor's Education," which comes out on Tuesday, recounts a life that after...

John Lithgow in New York, Sept. 14, 2011. Lithgow's new memoir, "Drama: An Actor's Education," which comes out on Tuesday, recounts a life that after...

John Lithgow in New York, Sept. 14, 2011. Lithgow's new memoir, "Drama: An Actor's Education," which comes out on Tuesday, recounts a life that after...

John Lithgow in New York, Sept. 14, 2011. Lithgow's new memoir, "Drama: An Actor's Education," which comes out on Tuesday, recounts a life that after...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill about the House's stopgap spending bill as fellow lawmakers loo...

Israeli soldiers fire tear gas during clashes between Jewish settlers from the settlement of Esh Kodesh and Palestinians of the village of Qusra on th...