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A fierce debate brewed Tuesday about what to do with billions of dollars worth of treasures found in the 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Trivandrum, India. Inside, investigators were counting the staggering hoard of gold coins and statues of gods and goddesses studded with diamonds and other precious stones. (Associated Press)

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A Danish customs officer checks a van at the border checkpoint between Flensburg, Germany, and Ellund, Denmark, on Tuesday. Denmark has started a plan to boost customs checks on its borders, deploying 50 additional customs officers at crossings with Germany and Sweden. (Associated Press)

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In this July 1, 2011 photo illustration, a freshly-cooked lobster pizza cools on a rack in West Bath, Maine. A varied selection of prepared frozen products, such as lobster macaroni and cheese, lobster pot pie and lobster pizza, are making their way to grocery store freezers. The creations are targeted at lobster lovers and foodies who donít want to deal with a live product and want the ease and convenience of simply taking something out of the freezer and popping it into the oven. Calendar Islands Maine Lobster Co. launched its line of eight frozen lobster products in January. The products are now sold in more than 100 grocery and specialty food stores, mostly in New England but also in the St. Louis area and in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

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Calendar Islands Maine Lobster Co. launched a line of eight frozen lobster products, including lobster pot pie, in January. "The whole category of value-added lobster was kind of slim. You just didn't find it in supermarkets," Calendar Islands president John Jordan said. "In some ways, this is really a new category for stores." (Associated Press)

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Astronaut Chris Ferguson (left), commander of the last space shuttle mission, looks on as his fellow crew members, (from left) pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, wave American flags after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, July 4, 2011. The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off Friday morning on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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"I don't oppose it if the city needs the money; I guess it's a good thing. Hopefully they put [the machines] in areas where kids and seniors aren't susceptible. Location is key." Linwood White, Bryans Road, Md., production

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** FILE ** An Egyptian spice dealer organizes products that include fenugreek seeds at his shop in Cairo on Thursday, June 30, 2011. The European Union on Tuesday temporarily banned the import of fenugreek seeds from Egypt after some were linked to a deadly outbreak of E. coli in Germany and France. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Payton Herald, 6, of Lebanon, Ind., waves her U.S. flag as she and her family wait for the fireworks in Washington on Monday, July 4, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Mikela Altman (center) dives for a Frisbee thrown by her dad, Andy Altman, near the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Va., as they wait for the fireworks to start. The Altman family, from Sterling, Va., has come to the spot for the past four years to watch the fireworks. At left is sister Claire Altman and at right is sister Emily Altman. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Corydon Swift Turner (under the hammock), 12, and his brother, Afton Swift Turner, 6, of Fairfax, Va., wait for the fireworks as the nation celebrates its 235th birthday on Independence Day in Washington. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Anne Byrd Fickling, 7, of Fredericksburg, Va., holds an American flag at the base of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Va., as she waits for the fireworks to start on Monday, July 4, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Protesters gather in front of the Greek Parliament during a peaceful rally against plans for new austerity measures in central Athens on Monday, June 13, 2011. Standard & Poor's international credit rating agency on Monday further slashed the debt-ridden country's rating, warned that Greece was more likely to default. (AP Photo / Kostas Tsironis)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Mexican artist Lenin Marquez Salazar inspects part of a work in progress. He paints the agricultural landscapes of his native state of Sinaloa but adds bodies of blindfolded men bound or wrapped in blankets. He has exhibited his work in the U.S. and Colombia.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — better known as Prince William and his wife, Kate — leave Fort Levis in Levis, Quebec, on Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — better known as Prince William and his wife, Kate — visit Maison Dauphine, which provides shelter and services to underprivileged children and families, in Quebec City on Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Victoria Dunlap (right) of the Washington Mystics goes to the basket against the Seattle Storm's Le'coe Willingham. Dunlap was playing in place of injured forward Crystal Langhorne.

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BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden downplayed fears that this week's final space shuttle launch marks the end of American dominance in space during a speech Friday at the National Press Club. "We are not ending human space flight," he said. "We are recommitting ourselves to it."