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The Kermit the Frog balloon floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

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Americans give t... The Kermit the Frog balloon floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
'Ghost' traps, ... In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 photo, a lost lobster trap sits on the ocean floor off Biddeford, Maine. Marine biologists say "ghost traps" lost by lobstermen continue to catch lobsters as they sit untended in the cold ocean waters off Maine's coast. This winter lobstermen will grapple up gear from selected spots in the first large-scale study of ghost traps. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Astronauts surpr... This image from NASA TV shows the Space Shuttle Atlantis doing it's fly around passing behind the Russian segment of the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the International Space Station early Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. The Poisk can be seen at right. The shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center, Friday morning. The (AP Photo/NASA)
Touched by NC gi... FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Shaquille O'Neal sits on the bench in the second quarter in an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz,, in Cleveland. O'Neal has paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose kidnapping and slaying garnered national news coverage. The Fayetteville Observer newspaper in North Carolina reported Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, that the Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the case of Shaniya Davis. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
Calif. driver fa... A truck rests again one of the small plane it hit at an airport in El Cajon, Calif. Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. The driver of the truck passed out behind the wheel of his truck, sending the vehicle crashing through a fence and into a row of parked planes. (AP Photo/William Thorn)
Tight economy fo... A weary Thanksgiving holiday traveler rubs her eyes while waiting for a Concord Coach bus to depart from Portland, Maine, Wednesday evening, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Ex-CNN host Lou ... FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Lou Dobbs, left, speaks with Bill O'Reilly during taping a segment for Fox News channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," in New York. Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as "an intermediary step" that could lead to a run for the White House. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Activist group p... This screen grab from Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 shows the Wikileaks.org home page. An activist group called Wikileaks has begun posting 573,000 pager messages purportedly sent on Sept. 11, 2001. The group says some of the messages were sent by federal and local officials, but most appear to be from regular people, including frantic New Yorkers trying to reach loved ones in and around the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Wikileaks.com) --NO SALES--
Mom befriends wi... This Oct. 27, 2009 photo shows Laurie Claar visiting the grave of her son, U.S. Marine Matthew Claar in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Wind-driven Cali... A firefighter stands by a fire truck as a wildfire burns near Anaheim Hills, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Firefighters say they are making good progress against a wind-driven wildfire burning in Southern California. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Vicki Kennedy de... In this photo taken Nov. 20, 2009 and released by Harpo Productions, Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, right, talks with Vicky Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, in her first television interview since her husband's passing during taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The episode will air on Wednesday, Nov. 25. (AP Photo/Harpo Productions Inc., George Burns)
Drywall investig... FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 file photo, a piece of Chinese drywall leans against the wall of a home in Davie, Fla. A federal probe of tainted Chinese drywall has broadened because a small number of homeowners are reporting that American-made drywall is causing some of the same problems: a sickening, sulfurous stench and corroded pipes and wiring. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)
Lambert says he ... Singer Adam Lambert appears on CBS's' "The Early Show" in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Ga. nurse anesth... In this undated photo released by the Cobb County police, Paul Patrick Serdula, is seen. Police say an Atlanta area nurse anesthetist has been charged with molesting and sodomizing anesthetized patients in dental and medical offices, and they say the videotaped abuses could involve 100 or more victims. Serdula, who worked in dental and medical offices across the Atlanta area, was arrested Monday night on child molestation and sodomy charges. (AP Photo/Cobb County Police)
Year after NY st... FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2008 file photo, Nassau County Police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y. where Jdimytai Damour, a temporary Wal-Mart worker, died after a throng of unruly shoppers broke down the doors and trampled him moments after the Long Island store opened for day-after-Thanksgiving bargain hunting. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has issued new guidelines this year seeking to prevent another tragedy. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, file)
Free to good hom... FILE - In this Saturday March 22, 2008, file photo, the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy makes it's way up the Delaware River near Philadelphia guided by tug boats. The U.S. Navy plans to donate the retired aircraft carrier as a museum or memorial. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek, 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)