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A view of a partial solar eclipse as seen from Gaza city Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A Lebanese worker watchs through X-ray the partial solar eclipse, at the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Tuesday Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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A Jordanian man uses his hand to show a reflected image of the partial solar eclipse, in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)
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Pakistani familes bury their children during the partial solar eclipse in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Superstitious people hope that burying ailing person during solar eclipse will cure them. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)
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A partial solar eclipse is seen through clouds over a church statue of the Virgin Mary, at the southern village of Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. A partial solar eclipse began Tuesday in the skies over the Mideast and extended across much of Europe. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Michael R. Bromwich, chief of the federal agency that overseas offshore drilling, calls Monday's ruling a "significant step." (Associated Press)
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Outgoing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) congratulates his successor, Jerry Brown, after Mr. Brown was sworn in in Sacramento, Calif., on Monday. Former Gov. Gray Davis, who preceded Mr. Schwarzenegger, looks on. (Associated Press)
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In this photo made on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, Cecil Griffith, right, the maintenance supervisor, and Jim Riggio, the plant manager for the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, watch the bubbler at one of the intake gates on the Beaver River at the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority water treatment plant in Beaver Falls, Pa.. Their water began flunking tests for trihalomethanes regularly last year, around the time that a facility 18 miles upstream became Pennsylvania's dominant gas wastewater treatment plant. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Dead birds lie on the ground after being thrown off the roof of a home by a worker with United States Environmental Services LLC in Beebe, Ark. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 3,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over the Arkansas town. (AP Photo/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)
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Workers with United States Environmental Services LLC collect dead birds from the back yard of a home in Beebe, Ark. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 3,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over the Arkansas town. (AP Photo/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)
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A worker with U.S. Environmental Services, a private contractor, picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark., on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011, as more can be seen on the street behind him. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said more than 1,000 dead blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe on Friday night. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins)
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Margie Sisemore cleans up after a tornado destroyed several homes in the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of northwestern Arkansas early on Friday. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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Paige Sisemore, 18, of Lincoln, Ark., sits on the foundation of a home behind a makeshift cross made from debris after a tornado tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of the South and Midwest early on New Year's Eve, killing six people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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Margie Sisemore, left, and Tammy Borden, right, clean up in the aftermath of a tornado that tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of northwestern Arkansas early on New Year's Eve, killing three people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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The remains of a home, foreground, and a fire station, background, are shown after a tornado tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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An unidentified rescue worker walks past debris after a tornado tore through Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of the South and Midwest early on New Year's Eve, killing six people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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Canned goods lie inside the pantry of a home destroyed by a tornado that tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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Margie Sisemore cleans up in the after a tornado destroyed several homes in the small town of Cincinnati, Ark., in western Washington County early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of the South and Midwest early on New Year's Eve, killing six people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, people walk down a street amid earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince, haiti. In 2010 crisis has piled upon crisis in Haiti. More than 230,000 are believed to have died in the quake, and more than a million remain homeless. A cholera epidemic broke out in the fall, and in its midst a dysfunctional election was held, its results still unclear.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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A wallaby stands on a large round hay bail trapped by rising flood waters outside the town of Dalby in Queensland, Australia Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Days of torrential downpours have left parts of central and southern Queensland state inundated, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, cutting off roads and forcing the entire populations of two towns to evacuate. (AP Photo/Anthony Skerman)
