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Outgoing Alfalfa Club president and Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens has a friendly wave ready as he enters the Capital Hilton and spots some friends. The annual dinner was held on Saturday, January 27. ( James R. Brantley / The Washington Times )
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In this July 29, 2010 photo, emergency room nurse Jeaux Rinehart sits in a treatment room at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle. Rinehart was accustomed to fielding kicks, spits, scratches and flying punches from his patients there, but one day in 2007 he didn't move quickly enough. An erratic intravenous drug user who had entered the ER in search of a fix, grabbed a club, came up from behind and, as Rinehart turned, smashed it into his face. Bones broken, Rinehart sucked meals from a straw for weeks. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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The infield at the Buffalo Chip Campground concert stage fills early with bikes and bikers, hours before the headline act, ZZ Top, takes the stage on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The 70th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is in full swing, hosting as many as 600,000 bikers in the small South Dakota Black Hills community. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)
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From the left, Martin Lecane, 45, John Lecane, 55, David Hayes, 38, and Greg Cullagh, 48, from Cork City, Ireland, attend the Buffalo Chip Campground concert as they attend the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, S.D., Monday Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe)
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In this screen grab taken from MySpace shows Steven Slater. Slater, a flight attendant for JetBlue Airways Corp., lost his temper after a passenger accidentally hit him on the head with luggage on the ground at Kennedy Airport on Monday, police said. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this file photo made Sept. 1, 2009, the Skype web browser is shown on a computer screen in Palo Alto, Calif. Skype SA, the Internet calling service that was controlled until last year by eBay Inc., filed Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, for a U.S. initial public offering. Luxembourg-based Skype tentatively put the value of the offering at $100 million, but that's a rough estimate only used as a basis for the filing fee for the Securities and Exchange Commission. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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A Saudi customer is served in a mobile shop at a market in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Some Saudis are trying to sell their BlackBerrys ahead of a ban on the smart phone's messenger service in the kingdom _ but with few willing to buy, they're having to slash prices. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** Mark David Chapman is shown as a member of a YMCA group at Fort Chaffee, Ark., in 1975. (AP Photo/File)
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, 74-year-old Yang Jinfeng receives medical treatments in a camp in Zhouqu county, in northwest China's Gansu Province, on Monday Aug. 9, 2010. Thirty-five hours after holding herself while her lower body was buried in the rain-triggered mud, Yang Jinfeng was finally rescued Monday morning by an armed police rescue team, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Jianjun)
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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2007 file photo, British singer Rod Stewart, right, and his wife Penny Lancaster arrive for the Emeralds & Ivy Ball, to raise money for Cancer Research UK, at Old Billingsgate Market in London. Stewart and Lancaster announced Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 they are expecting their second child - and the 65-year-old rocker's seventh. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
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This undated image released by Julien's Auctions shows a portrait of Michael Jackson and his wife Lisa Marie Presley commissioned to David Nordahl by Jackson in 1995. This item is part of Julien's Auctions "Legends" scheduled to take place Saturday Oct. 9, 2010, in Macau, China. (AP Photo/Julien's Auctions)
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The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley rests in a conservation tank in North Charleston, S.C. Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the raising of the sub, the first in history to sink an enemy warship. (Associated Press)
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Body technician Bree Sarver demonstrates the treatment with Pixie tangerines and pomegranates on Andrea Olson at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa on Tuesday in Ojai, Calif. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** On July 9, 2010, South Korean navy personnel at the Second Fleet Command in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, walk past the salvaged wreckage of a warship that the government claims was sunk by a North Korean torpedo in March. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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In this Aug. 6, 2010 photo, Connie Plessala places fish on ice behind the counter of Big Fisherman Seafood in New Orleans. The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months since crude began gushing from the sea floor. But those who harvest, process and sell the catch face a new crisis -- convincing wary consumers it's not only delicious, but also safe. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, front, leaves a hospital after a surgery in one of his legs in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, a BlackBerry user displays a text message sent by his service provider notifying him of the suspension of services, at a mobile shop in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Officials from several nations, including the United Arab Emirates, India, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, have announced or are contemplating bans on BlackBerry features. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2009 file photo, a DirecTV satellite receiver dish is seen on a home in Simi Valley, Calif. DirecTV said Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, its second-quarter profit rose 33 percent, helped by higher prices for programming packages. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)
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Mike Modano stands with Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland, left, and owner Mike Ilitch after being introduced as a Red Wing during an NHL hockey news conference in Detroit, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Modano inked a one-year deal worth $1.25 million and the possibility of $500,000 more through performance-based bonuses. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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President Obama talks with Gelberg Signs employee Elaine Hart during his tour of the facility, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
