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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint news conference with Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle in Berlin on Monday, March 14, 2011, at which the government said it is suspending for three months a decision to extend the life of its nuclear power plants. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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A man checks out a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday as the stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. (Associated Press)
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President Obama walks off after signing his name during a visit to a music classroom at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., on Monday. The students had done a presentation on jazz legend Duke Ellington. Mr. Obama called for more education spending. (Associated Press)
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A man reacts while looking at a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday, March 14, 2011, as the Tokyo stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami of epic proportions laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. Only stock prices of construction and housing business showed upward trend (in red digits). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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"We need to consider moving toward the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to put the oil we have … into the economy," said Sen. Richard J. Durbin. (Associated Press)
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Allegations of improprieties have tripped up D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray in only the third month of his term. "Now we got to spend all this money on investigations. We're always spending on the wrong things," said Raymond Washington, a Ward 8 resident. (Associated Press)
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Hotel employees squat down in horror at the hotel's entrance in Tokyo after a strong earthquake hit Japan Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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In this photo from March 8, 2011, shoppers cross the street in San Francisco. Retail sales post biggest gain in 4 months as shoppers spend more on cars, clothing and gas. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, confers Thursday with an aide during a hearing, "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response." He said it was the first in a series of such hearings. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Amina Shah, a microfinance beneficiary, stitches a shirt as she waits for customers at her shop in a slum in Mumbai. The stories of the poor being empowered by affordable credit have been replaced by headlines about overextended borrowers being driven to suicide. Some lenders are contributing to a cycle of indebtedness and abuse, just like the loan sharks they were to replace. (Associated Press)
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Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arrives at High Court in Dhaka recently to try to reverse a Bangladesh government order dismissing him as the head of the microfinance bank he founded. He pioneered the concept of reducing poverty by making tiny loans to the poor. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Chris Liddell, then the vice chairman and CFO of General Motors, attends the New York International Auto Show in New York in March 2010. The company said on Thursday, March 10, 2011, that Mr. Liddell will step down April 1. (AP Photo/General Motors Co., Steve Fecht)
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** FILE ** Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, opens hearings into Islamic radicalization on Thursday, March 10, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. King dismissed what he called the "rage and hysteria" surrounding the hearings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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NV Homes is building estate homes in Hunting Crest near Wolf Trap in Vienna. The homes range from 3,790 to 5,618 square feet and are base-priced from $1,324,990 to $1,489,990.
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The home at 5029 38th St. North in Arlington is on the market for $1,050,000. Deceptively small-looking from the exterior, the home actually has more than 2,400 square feet.
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Rep. Peter King (left), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, talks with Rep. Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the panel, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011, as hearings get under way into Islamic radicalization in America. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., center, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, left, arrive to vote on the spending bill in the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The Senate rejected competing Republican and Democratic spending bills in a bit of Capitol theater designed to demonstrate that the combatants must meet somewhere in the middle. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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One of the key selling points when the Dodge Dart first hit the market was the fact that it was such a small car and easy to park.
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Sen. Joe Manchin III (left), West Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, arrive to vote on the spending bill Wednesday. The Senate rejected competing Republican and Democratic spending bills as the clock continued ticking down to a March 18 deadline. (Associated Press)
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (second from left), North Dakota Republican, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (second from right), Massachusetts Democrat, leave the Senate chamber at the Capitol Wednesday after voting on the spending bill. Late Wednesday, the Senate rejected competing Republican and Democratic spending bills. (Associated Press)
