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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Chen Bingzhong, 78, formerly head of a government health research and outreach agency, is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with the virus that causes AIDS.
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In this photo taken Oct. 14, 2010, Stephen Marshall, owner of Little House on the Trailer, is seen in front of one of the homes he built in Petaluma, Calif. According to builders, the market for tiny houses has surged since the housing crisis began, as more Americans downsize to save money, simplify their lives and reduce their carbon footprint. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A man rides through a street littered with election ballots near a polling station after it was destroyed Monday by demonstrators in Grande Riu Du Nord village, Haiti. The country wrapped up an election Sunday in discord. Runoffs are expected for the presidential and nearly all senatorial and parliamentary races.
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A man sits outside the earthquake-damaged National Palace one day after general elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which ended in turmoil. Results are not expected until Dec. 7.
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Iran's Fars News Agency claims that this photo shows one of the cars damaged in two bomb attacks on two nuclear scientists in Tehran on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Assailants on motorcycles attached bombs to the cars as the scientists were driving to work. One was killed and the other seriously wounded, Iranian state television reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)
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In this image released by Greenpeace on Sunday Nov. 28, 2010, a giant balloon rises next to the Chichen-Itza pyramids in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Sunday Nov. 28, 2010. Facing another year without a global deal to curb climate change, the world's nations will spend the next two weeks in Cancun, Mexico, during the annual conference of the 193-nation U.N. climate treaty, debating how to mobilize money to cope with what's coming, as temperatures climb, ice melts, seas rise and the climate that nurtured man shifts in unpredictable ways. (AP Photo/Greenpeace)
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The Capitol Christmas tree is removed from the trailer to be placed on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree was cut down earlier this month in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Jeff Underwood, left, and Mark Fortner, both from Dahloneg, Ga., talk before the Capitol Christmas tree is placed on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree is from the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Capitol Christmas tree is driven to the spot on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree was cut down earlier this month in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Henry Brady cuts the stump of the Capitol Christmas tree as they work to place it on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree was cut down earlier this month in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Capitol Christmas tree is placed on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree was cut down earlier this month in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Capitol Christmas tree is placed on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree was cut down earlier this month in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. The Washington Monument is in the background. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Capitol Christmas tree is placed on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. The tree was cut down earlier this month in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwest Wyoming. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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A supporter of Haiti's ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide holds calendars depicting Aristide that read in Creole: "Good return", near a polling station during general elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Haitians are going to the polls in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,600 people and hospitalized thousands as it still recovers from the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A police officer pushes voters against a wall covered with posters depicting presidential candidate Jude Celestin during general elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Haitians are going to the polls in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,600 people and hospitalized thousands as it still recovers from the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A young man collects election ballots inside a polling station that was destroyed by demonstrators in Grande Riu Du Nord village, Haiti, Monday Nov. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Election ballots lay in the street after being swept into a pile outside a polling station in Grande Riu Du Nord village, Haiti, Monday Nov. 29, 2010. Haiti wrapped up their Sunday elections in discord while results were not likely until Dec. 7 and run-offs were expected for the presidential and nearly all senatorial and parliamentary races. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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People walk past a sand sculpture made by activists of Oxfam, a group of non-governmental organizations, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Russian scientist Sergey Zimov demonstrates the emission of methane trapped under the ice of a Siberian lake near the town of Chersky, Russia. In the last few decades, as the Earth has gradually warmed, the icy ground has begun thawing more rapidly, accelerating the release of methane - a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide - at a perilous rate.
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A tiny chapel is seen on the grounds of the Northeast Science Station near the town of Chersky in Siberia 4,000 miles east of Moscow. Gas locked inside Siberia's frozen soil and under its lakes has been seeping out since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
