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This image made from NASA TV Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 shows the 12 space travelers aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex during a news conference. Atlantis will undock from the space station on Wednesday. (AP Photo/NASA)

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Shuttle, station... This image made from NASA TV Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 shows the 12 space travelers aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex during a news conference. Atlantis will undock from the space station on Wednesday. (AP Photo/NASA)
Filmmaker Tyler ... FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2009 file photo, Tyler Perry is shown at the premiere of Tyler Perry's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself", in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)
SC legislators b... FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford attends a meeting in Columbia, S.C. Sanford faces ethics charges he broke state laws more than three dozen times by violating rules on airplane travel and campaign money, according to details of the allegations released Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Sanford's lawyers have claimed the allegations involve minor and technical aspects of the law. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
Chef Paula Deen ... In this image made from video and released by cbsatlanta.com, celebrity chef Paula Deen reacts after being hit by a canned ham, in Atlanta. The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta food bank on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, when someone threw one of the hams like a football and accidentally smacked her. (AP Photo/cbsatlanta.com) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES
Ex-spy, submarin... In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 photo, former French intelligence officer Herve Jaubert poses for a photo in his attorneys office holding a photo of one of his submarines in Stuart, Fla. Jaubert believed he was essentially being held captive in Dubai when his passport was confiscated by authorities amid a dispute with his employer, a powerful government-run conglomerate. (AP Photo/Jon Way)
Ex-NY politician... Former state Sen. Joseph Bruno leaves federal court in Albany, N.Y., on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. A jury will begin deliberations Tuesday morning in the federal corruption case against Bruno. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Atlanta cops, sh... FILE - This undated file photo released by the family shows 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. Police and community members of her Atlanta neighborhood are trying to rebuild ties three years after Johnston was gunned down by police in a botched drug raid. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Johnston Family, File) NO SALES
Britain wins 5 I... Honoree Sir David Frost and his wife Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, right, arrive to the 37th International Emmy Awards, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)
Overnight star S... Susan Boyle appears on the NBC "Today" television program in New York Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Atty: Fort Hood ... FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said Saturday Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, file)
Tamiflu-resistan... Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis, right, backs into Charlotte Bobcats forward Stephen Jackson during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Orlando, Fla., Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Mother of missin... In this undated photo provided by the City of Fayetteville Police Department, Antoinette Nicole Davis. Davis, the mother of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, faces a child abuse charge involving prostitution as well as filing a false police report, according to a news release from the Fayetteville Police Department. (AP Photo/City of Fayetteville Police Department)
AP: Palin book g... In this book cover image released by Harper, "Going Rogue: An American Life," by Sarah Palin, is shown. (AP Photo/Harper)
Evangelist sente... FILE - In this Tuesday, July 14, 2009 file photo, Evangelist Tony Alamo, center is led from the federal courthouse in downtown Texarkana Ark. The aging preacher, 75, faces up to a 175-year sentence from U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes when he returns to a Texarkana, Ark., federal courtroom on FridayNov. 13. A jury convicted him in July of 10 counts of taking underage girls as young as 8 across state lines for sex. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES
Chesapeake crabb... Joe Palmer, owner of Joey's Crab Company, sets out in his skiff for a day of crabbing on Lynnhaven bay in Virginia Beach, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Report: 10 state... FILE - In this Friday, July 19, 2009 file photo, security guard Suresh Sonpaki walks in front of the doors of a closed Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in San Francisco. California's ongoing fiscal crisis has attracted national attention, but a study warns that nine other states are barreling toward similar economic disaster. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Navajo Code Talk... In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 photo, Keith Little, 85, of Crystal, N.M., attends a book signing with fellow Navajo Code Talkers in Albuquerque, N.M. Little will join 12 other Navajo Code Talkers in the New York City Veteran's Day Parade on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Navajo Marines helped the U.S. prevail at Iwo Jima and other World War II Pacific battles with an unbreakable code that stymied the Japanese. The code of Navajo language-encrypted military terms used to transit secret tactical messages was classified for decades after the war - and was so complex that even Navajos Marines who weren't in the elite unit could't decipher it. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Rihanna talks ab... Singer Rihanna poses for a portrait in New York Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri)
AP Top Entertain... FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2009, file photo House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md. speaks during a news conference about health care on Capitol Hill in Washington. "We're very close" to having enough votes to prevail, said Hoyer of the health care reform bill Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, although he added a scheduled Saturday vote could slip by a day or two. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, FILE)
Stepfather convi... Royce Clyde Zeigler II, left, enters the 10th District Court in Galveston, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Zeigler is accused of killing Riley Ann Sawyers, whose unidentified body was dubbed "Baby Grace" when found in a plastic container in Galveston Bay. (AP Photo/Jennifer Reynolds, Pool)
Crowds roar, con... New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, right, and teammate Francisco Cervelli wave from a float during a ticker-tape parade along Broadway celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Texas sect man g... Raymond Jessop, left, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch in April, 2008, is seen outside the courtroom during a recess in his trial in Eldorado, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if convicted of sexual assault of a child, a charge stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl. His father, Merril Jessop, is in the background. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
Former HP CEO Fi... FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008, file photo Carly Fiorina, former chairwoman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. After months of speculation but few public appearances, Fiorina was expected to announce her plans Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, for the U.S. Senate seat held by liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer of California. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
Boston cops: Psy... Police vehicles are parked outside 50 Staniford Street in Boston, Tuesday afternoon Oct. 27, 2009 after a man stabbed a doctor while being treated at a psychiatric ward on the building's fifth floor. The attacker was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard who saw the attack. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
A walkout ends, ... This Aug. 26, 2009 photo shows Steve Curtis polishing a trumpet at music repair shop Pettifor's Inc. in Elkhart, Ind. Curtis went on strike in April of 2006, along with the rest of UAW Local 364, against Conn-Selmer Inc. Pettifor's is one of the few jobs in the area that could use his skill set. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)