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In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. Officials said that TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 12, 2011 file photo, a runway at Sendai airport is covered with washed out cars and sand and earth after the March 11 strong earthquake slammed into Japan's eastern coast. Geologists say a powerful earthquake could strike near Tokyo because the recent monster that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, loading stress onto a segment of the fault line near the capital. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE
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A worker stocks tomatoes from Tochigi prefecture at a market Sunday in Tokyo. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex have seeped into the food chain. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this video image taken March 11, 2011 from Japan's NHK TV, a wave from the tsunami heads to the coast in Miyagi Prefecture on the north east coast of Japan following a massive earth quake. (AP PHOTO/NHK TV) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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Victims' family members participate in a Buddhist service on Saturday, March 19, 2011, at the site of a March 12 tour bus crash that left 15 people dead in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, a fire engine from the Japan Self-Defense Forces sprays water toward Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Ministry)
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In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, a fire engine from the Japan Self-Defense Forces sprays water toward Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Friday, March 18, 2011. In the backgrounds is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Ministry)
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FILE - In this March 11, 2011 file photo, Apple employees cheer as the iPad 2 goes on sale at The Grove Apple store in Los Angeles. Analysts from IHS iSuppli said Friday, March 18, 2011, last week's earthquake in Japan could cause shortages of the iPad 2. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
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Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano from Japan speaks to the media about the nuclear emergency triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan before his takeoff to Japan at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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This image provided by NASA, shows a image NASA’s Messenger probe made when it flew by Mercury in September 2009. It's a close-up of its pockmarked southern hemisphere, an area that had never been seen before. Messenger will enter into Mercury’s orbit on March 17, 2011. Earth is about to get better acquainted with its oddball planetary cousin. (AP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
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Residents observes a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011, at the time when a strong earthquake hit northeastern Japan one week ago. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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DANGER: Thick smoke billows from the No. 3 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. A nearly completed new power line could restore cooling systems to the tsunami-damaged structure, its operator said Thursday. (Associated Press)
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President Obama signs the condolence book as Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., looks on during his visit to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Thursday. Mr. Obama placed a telephone call to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday to discuss Japan's efforts to recover from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant. (Associated Press)
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Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, China, after heavy rains last summer. Critical infrastructure controlled by computers, including dams, pipelines and factories, are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks in China than in other countries, security specialists say. Three Gorges is the largest dam in the world. (Associated Press)
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The 327-cubic-inch V-8 isn't the biggest engine, but it's rock-solid. (Bill O'Brien/The Washington Times)
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Beazer Homes is building 58 town houses at Brighton Place in Capitol Heights. The Chandler model has approximately 1,800 finished square feet, with base prices from the mid-$200,000s.
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Residents of Kamaishi, Japan, walk away with personal items that they recovered from their damaged home in the aftermath of Friday's tsunami. Two search-and-rescue teams from the United States and one from the United Kingdom with a total of about 220 personnel searched the town for survivors on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Emperor Akihito tried to calm the nerves of his nation's people during a televised address on Wednesday. He expressed his condolences to those who have suffered since the earthquake and tsunami and urged them not to give up. (Associated Press)
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HOMELESS: A woman walks around the devastated area in snowy and cold Ofunato in northern Japan where her home used to be before the earthquake and tsunami on Wednesday. Emperor Akihito appeared on TV across Japan in a prerecorded message that lasted about six minutes. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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A woman talks with the driver before boarding a bus in Manhattan's Chinatown for a trip to a Connecticut casino. Her trip Tuesday was canceled after a fatal crash, but thousands of Chinese New Yorkers take buses every day to gamble in nearby states. (Associated Press)
