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Guests are served Bierlikor at the Fraundorfer Gasthaus in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Feb. 10, 2012. Just 80 minutes by train from Munich, the G...

Guests in an outdoor whirlpool at a mountain igloo village in Zugspitze, south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Feb. 12, 2012. Just 80 minutes by t...

Guests at sunrise at a mountain igloo village in Zugspitze, south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Feb. 13, 2012. Just 80 minutes by train from Mun...

Gehard Ester, a local painter, has a beer at Braustuberl in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Feb. 11, 2012. Just 80 minutes by train from Munich, the...

A couple cross the turnstile gate into the border town of Nogales, Mexico, Feb. 9, 2012. Writer Paul Theroux, who has crossed many borders, finds the...

The Arizona side of the border fence; passing over the border into Sonora, Mexico, in the border town of Nogales, Feb. 8, 2012. Writer Paul Theroux, w...

Gary and Dorie Roycraft on the Arizona side of the border fence, in the border town of Nogales, Feb. 9, 2012. Writer Paul Theroux, who has crossed man...

The cobblestoned Ludwigstrasse street in Partenkirchen, half of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Feb. 12, 2012. Just 80 minutes by train from Munich,...

Commuters on an aerial tramway up Zugspitze, south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Feb. 12, 2012. Just 80 minutes by train from Munich, the German...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks during a campaign stop at Meridian Bioscience in...

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, during a campaign stop in Steubenville, Ohio, Feb. 20,...

The shadow of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, as he speaks during a campaign stop in S...

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, greets supporters during a campaign stop in Steubenvil...

Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss in Phoenix, Feb. 8, 2012. In his new book, "A Universe From Nothing," Krauss joins a chorus of scientists trying to explai...

A custom designed chair in sitting area at the Cathay Pacific lounge at San Francisco International Airport in California, Dec. 30, 2011. Many carrier...

Employees listen as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at a campaign event at Merid...

Wojciech Rostenis works at the archive section of the Institute of National Remembrance, which has published more than 800 titles about the Nazi occup...

Wojciech Rostenis at the archive section of the Institute of National Remembrance, which has published more than 800 titles about the Nazi occupation...

Kurt Bjorklund, left, and Tom Lister, co-managing partners at Permira, a private equity firm based out of Europe, at the company's offices in New York...

Tom Lister, left, and Kurt Bjorklund, co-managing partners at Permira, a private equity firm based out of Europe, at the company's offices in New York...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, during a campaign stop at Meridian Bioscience in Cincin...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, campaigns at Meridian Bioscience in Cincinnati, Feb. 20...

A team from the Apache Corporation surveys the area of the Cedar Lake oil field in N.M., where the company hopes to drill more wells, Feb. 14, 2012. I...

Said Ferjani, a self-taught Islamist who plotted a coup in Tunisia and fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum, right, looks over a pre...

New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin (17) in action against the New Orleans Hornets during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game at Madison Sq...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, backstage before speaking at Collins High School during a...

The synagogue, where Nazis held prisoners, in Wittlich, the village where the family of Evan Kaufmann, a Jewish-American hockey player from Minneapoli...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, hugs his granddaughter, Maggie Cushman, backstage before s...

Dave Paynter, a retired fishery technician, lifts a 111.2 pound sturgeon at a registration station near Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 18, 2012...

Ice shanties built for sturgeon spear fishing dot the frozen surface of Lake Winnebago in Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 18, 2012. Sturgeon season on the Winneba...

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at the Red Lion Hanford House in Richland, Wash., Feb. 17, 2012. W...

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at the Red Lion Hanford House in Richland, Wash., Feb. 17, 2012. W...

Said Ferjani, a self-taught Islamist who plotted a coup in Tunisia and fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum, left, with his former h...

Said Ferjani, second from right, a self-taught Islamist who plotted a coup in Tunisia and fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum, with...

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at the Red Lion Hanford House in Richland, Wash., Feb. 17, 2012. W...

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, speaks at the Red Lion Hanford House in Richland, Wash., Feb. 17, 2012. W...

Said Ferjani, a self-taught Islamist who plotted a coup in Tunisia and fled to Britain to join other Islamists seeking asylum, near the Negra mosque i...

President Hugo Chavez greets members of the crowd during a parade, in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 4, 2012. In recent years, the way Chavez has embraced E...

Philippe Bourguignon, chief executive officer of Exclusive Resorts, one of the most established of the top-tier destination clubs, at his office in De...

Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs programmer found guilty of stealing proprietary code from the bank's high-frequency trading platform, leaves...

The Vulcan statue, which is patterned after the Roman god of the forge, reflecting the city's history as an iron and steel town, in Birmingham, Jeffer...

Janet Evans, an olympic champion swimmer, prepares for swim practice at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, Calif., Feb. 17, 2012. For Evans, a f...

Joseph Kennedy III, center, greets diners during a campaign stop at a Crivello's Crossing restaurant in Milford, Mass., Feb. 16, 2012. Kennedy, the gr...

Joseph Kennedy III waits to speak to commuters at the Newton Centre train station during a campaign stop in Newton, Mass., Feb. 16, 2012. Kennedy, the...

Joseph Kennedy III talks to reporters during a campaign stop at the Newton Centre train station in Newton, Mass., Feb. 16, 2012. Kennedy, the grandson...

Joseph Kennedy III talks to commuters during a campaign stop at the Newton Centre train station in Newton, Mass., Feb. 16, 2012. Kennedy, the grandson...

The former house of Whitney Houston on Dodd Street in East Orange, N.J., Feb. 14, 2012. In the East Orange community where Houston spent most of her c...

A makeshift memorial for Whitney Houston at the Whitney E. Houston Academy for Creative and Performing Arts in East Orange, N.J., Feb. 14, 2012. In th...

Dodd Street, in the background, where Whitney Houston grew up, in East Orange, N.J., Feb. 14, 2012. In the East Orange community where Houston spent m...

A copy photograph of Whitney Houston in 1990 with Henry Hamilton, her former elementary school principal at what is now known as the Whitney E. Housto...