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This Tuesday, March 29, 2011 photo shows Maya Soetoro-Ng, left, and her daughter Suhaila Ng, 6, as they look at Soetoro-Ng's new book, "Ladder to the Moon," at their home in Honolulu. Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's sister, draws on memories of their mother, Ann Dunham, for her new picture book. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)
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FILE - This Feb. 6, 2011, file photo shows Belgium's Kim Clijsters, in Antwerp, Belgium. Clijsters may miss next month's French Open after injuring her right ankle at her cousin's wedding. Her website says she will be out at least four to six weeks. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)
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**FILE** In this undated photo, chunks of chemically processed rare earths are shown in Beijing. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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Dane Ellis, a full-service attendant at the Exxon station at the corner of 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast, pumps gas into a truck on Monday. Station manager David "Woody" Woodall said that sales volume hasn't dropped off. "We have a lot of regular customers that just need their gas, so they're going to come here every day anyway," he said. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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FILE - This Feb. 6, 2011, file photo shows Belgium's Kim Clijsters, in Antwerp, Belgium. Clijsters may miss next month's French Open after injuring her right ankle at her cousin's wedding. Her website says she will be out at least four to six weeks. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)
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Dr. Jonathan A. Coddington, Associate Director of Research and Collections, examines vials of preserved Brown Recluse Spiders at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, Wednesday. It's that time of year when the bugs emerge to bug us. Some can pose real threats - Lyme disease from tiny ticks, West Nile virus from mosquitoes, or life-threatening allergic reactions to bee stings. But most bug bites in this country are an itchy nuisance. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Rescuers carry a wounded person to an ambulance in Minsk, Belarus, on Monday, April 11, 2011, after an explosion tore through a main subway station in the Belarusian capital during the evening rush hour. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Kate Middleton reacts to the crowd, during a visit to Witton County Park, Darwen, near Blackburn, England Monday, April, 11, 2011. Middleton is to wed Britain's Prince William at Westminster Abbey on April 29. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)
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An unidentified veiled woman, flanked by a friend (center right), is taken away by plainclothes and uniformed police officers from in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday, April 11, 2011. France's new ban on Islamic face veils, which came into effect Monday, was met with a burst of defiance, with two veiled women detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest. France is the world's first country to ban the veils anywhere in public. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Gertjan Meeuws of PlantLab, a private research company, smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in a lab where he is growing herbs and vegetables under LED lights in Den Bosch, central Netherlands, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert. (AP Photo/Arthur Max)
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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2004 file photo, Chinese diver Tian Liang signs autographs for fans during a welcome ceremony for the 32 Chinese Olympic gold medallists at Hong Kong's Government House. Tian, the men's 10-meter platform champion at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and synchronized platform champ four years later in Athens, plays an autistic young man who marries a mute woman in Andrew Lau's upcoming Chinese-language romance "A Beautiful Life." "The surprise this time was Tian Liang," Lau told The Associated Press on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Anat Givon, File)
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Fernando Molina left Mexico for the U.S. more than a decade ago and settled in Aurora, Ill. He is part of a migratiton to the suburbs offering established Hispanic neighborhoods that include homes, stores and libraries. (Associated Press)
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A wide tornado whipped through Mapleton, Iowa, on Saturday evening, destroying 12 to 15 blocks of the small town in the state's northwest. (AP Photo/Sioux City Journal, Jim Lee)
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** FILE ** A customer leaves a branch of the Landsbanki in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 2008. Icelanders voted on Saturday, April 9, 2011, in a referendum to determine whether the nation will repay Britain and the Netherlands in full for compensating their citizens who had deposits in the failed online bank Icesave, which was owned by Landsbanki. (AP Photo/Arni Torfason, File)
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Israel Laboy, father of Robel Laboy, who was shot and killed Friday night at a teen party, is comforted by family members at candlelight vigil in Chester, Pa., on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Authorities say shots rang out Friday night at a social hall where the party was being held, killing two people and sending eight others to hospitals. (AP Photo/Delaware County Daily Times, Eric Hartline)
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Artist Tyree Guyton adjusts shoes at his "Street Folk" installation on Edmund Place in Detroit, Thursday, April 7, 2011. Guyton says "the shoes are a reflection of people, all going in different directions and yet they are all in the streets." (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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In this April 12 1961 photo, rocket engineer Oleg Ivanovsky pats Yuri Gagarin, left, on his helmet as he sits down in the cockpit of the Vostok spacecraft before the launch from what will later become known as the Baikonur cosmodrome. Ivanovsky said that designers had done their best to make the first human flight into space safe, but risks were still high. Russia is marking the 50th anniversary of man's first trip into space. (AP Photo/NPO Lavochkin Museum, HO)
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This image provided by the Adler Planetarium on Thursday, April 7, 2011 shows a proposal for a space shuttle exhibit in Chicago. As the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch draws near, the focus is not so much on the past but the future: Where will the shuttles wind up once the program winds down? (AP Photo/Adler Planetarium)
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A wounded prisoner from Gadhafi's forces is transported in the back of an ambulance, to take him to a hospital for treatment, half way between Brega and Ajdabiya, in Libya on Saturday, April 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Firemen walk as they head to search for missing people in an area devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, April 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
