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Police officers escort surviving inmates from the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. A fire started by a prisoner late Tuesday tore through the prison killing 358 inmates, said Supreme Court Justice Richard Ordonez, who is leading the investigation. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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AP EXCLUSIVE: Ho... Police officers escort surviving inmates from the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. A fire started by a prisoner late Tuesday tore through the prison killing 358 inmates, said Supreme Court Justice Richard Ordonez, who is leading the investigation. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Ecstatic Taiwane... A fan of NBA Knicks' Taiwanese-American Jeremy Lin watches him play against the Sacramento Kings at a local sports bar in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Taiwan is embracing emerging New York Knicks superstar Jeremy Lin as one of their own, reveling in his basketball exploits on one of the biggest sports stages in the world with a passion all out of kilter in a place probably better known for its production of flat screen TVs and computer chips. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
Unemployment app... In this Feb. 14, 2012 photo, a job seeker looks for work at JobTrain employment center in Menlo Park, Calif. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell to the lowest point in almost four years last week, the latest signal that the job market is steadily improving. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
GM records its h... FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2011 file photo a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is featured at a car dealership in San Jose, Calif. General Motors Co. said Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, it made more money in 2011 than any year in its history. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
UN sees possible... Civilians flee from fighting after Syrian army tanks enter the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Syrian government forces renewed their assault on the rebellious city of Homs on Tuesday in what activists described as the heaviest shelling in days, as the U.N. human rights chief raised fears of civil war. (AP Photo)
In burning Hondu... Forensic workers carry away the body of an inmate who died in a prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, 90 miles (140 kilometers) north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. At least 300 inmates were killed and 21 are injured, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
MSN adds new fea... FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo, attendees at the National Retail Federation visit a Microsoft display, in New York. Microsoft is hooking up MSN.com with a hipper sidekick to broaden its appeal and stay on top of the Internet's hottest topics. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Top bargainers a... The U.S. Capitol is seen, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Washington. Calling quits to a bruising election-year fight, negotiators on Capitol Hill worked into Wednesday night, ironing out final details of an agreement to extend a cut in the payroll taxes paid by most Americans. The legislation also would renew jobless benefits for millions more. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
A 5-state ban fo... In this photo made taken from Feb. 4, 2012 security camera footage provided by Bismarck Schools, a man identified as 28-year-old Sherwin Shayegan of Bothell, Wash., dressed in a basketball uniform, stands in a hallway at Century High School in Bismarck, N.D. Dubbed the Piggyback Bandit, Shayegan crashed school sporting events in at least five states from Washington to Minnesota, in some cases coaxing players to give him a piggyback ride. (AP Photo/Bismarck Schools)
Whitney Houston ... Yamda Johnson, watches as her friend Regina Kujemya, both from Staten Island, N.Y. signs a large poster of Whitney Houston while paying their respects at New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. The 48-year-old pop star was found dead in the bathtub in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala. Houston's funeral will be held at the church on Saturday. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
Obama's budget c... FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2011, file photo, cantaloupes rot in the afternoon heat on a field on the Jensen Farms near Holly, Colo. Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at the farm's cantaloupe-packing facility were probably to blame for the deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration said. President Barack Obama's proposed budget would eliminate the nation's only program that regularly tests fruits and vegetables for deadly pathogens, leaving public health officials without a crucial tool used to investigate deadly foodborne illness outbreaks. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
Interracial marr... HOLD FOR RELEASE 12:01 A.M. EST; Chart shows trend in interacial marriage
China's vice pre... China's vice president, Xi Jinping, center left, talks with area residents in the home of Roger and Sarah Lande in Muscatine, Iowa Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Xi visited farms and local industries in Muscatine in 1985. (AP Photo/The Quad City Times, Kevin E. Schmidt, Pool)
Romney strugglin... Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign rally in Kentwood, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his partys drive to capture the White House. Thats a problem for him because hes trying to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick Santorum, who appeals strongly to that group. Combined polls of voters in the first five states that held presidential nominating contests show Romney has led his rivals by comfortable margins among white college graduates. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Lin has 13 assis... New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin, center, talks with teammates Carmelo Anthony, left, and Amare Stoudemire, right, during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in New York. LIn had 10 points and 13 assists as the Knicks won the game 100-85. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
NJ gov strongly ... FILE- In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, singer Whitney Houston arrives at the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills, Calif. Houston died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, she was 48. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Unexplained dolp... Katie Moore, an International Fund for Animal Welfare rescue team member, approaches a portion of a pod of 11 dolphins stranded on a mud flat during low tide in Wellfleet, Mass., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Ten of the dolphins were saved and one perished during the event. There have been 177 dolphins stranded in the area since Jan. 12, 2012 and 53 have been successfully released. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
Xi wraps up high... China Vice President Xi Jinping raises his glass during Iowa Governor Terry Branstad's toast, at the Iowa Statehouse, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Andrea Melendez, Pool)
Santorum's tax r... Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum meets with business leaders, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Tioga, N.D. (AP Photo/Williston Herald, Elijah Nouvelage)
Police: Malnouri... Mike Vega points to the area of sidewalk in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, where he discovered a starving 15-year-old after she escaped from her abusive father and stepmother last week. The severely malnourished teenager had been forced to stay in an unfinished basement for years and an alarm would sound if she went upstairs, police records say. The teen told authorities she ate what she could find in the garbage and on the floor of her father and stepmother's Madison home. Sometimes she was made to eat her feces and drink her own urine, according to a police affidavit. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
No cussing in cl... Floyd Brown and his daughter Olivia Brown pose for a photo Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in Anthem, Ariz. Borwn, pulled Olivia, a high school junior, from a local public school after she came home upset that one of her teachers was using profanity in the classroom and school administrators didn't address his concerns. He now helps with her home schooling at his business. State Sen. Lori Klein of Anthem has introduced a bill that requires teachers to follow FCC regulations regarding profanity and obscenity. The bill would penalize teachers in public schools who do not follow FCC standards. Klein says she's heard complaints from people in her district that teachers are using inappropriate language in high schools.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Rome's 2020 Olym... Italian Premier Mario Monti gestures during a cabinet meeting in Rome Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Premier Monti has scrapped Rome's bid for the 2020 Olympics, saying the government can't supply the required financial backing at a time of financial crisis. Premier Mario Monti announced after a Cabinet meeting Tuesday that it would be an irresponsible use of taxpayer money to fund the Olympic project. Costs for hosting the Olympics in Rome are estimated at $12.5 billion. The decision came a day before the deadline for formal submission of bid files to the International Olympic Committee. The IOC requires government financial guarantees. Rome was the first of six cities to submit a bid for the 2020 Games. The others are Baku, Azerbaijan; Doha, Qatar; Istanbul; Madrid; and Tokyo. The IOC will select the host city in 2013. (AP Photo/Roberto Monaldo, LaPresse) ITALY OUT
Interview offers... In this Jan. 17, 2012 photo made from video and provided by the Cherokee (Ga.) Sheriff Department, convicted child killer Ryan Brunn is interviewed by authorities after his arrest near Kennesaw, Ga. In a candid, three-hour interview, Brunn goes into detail about how and why he lured a girl to an empty apartment and when he made the decision to kill her. Brunn pleaded guilty to molesting the child and slitting her throat. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Two days after his detailed interview, he hung himself in his cell. (AP Photo/Cherokee (Ga.) Sheriff Department)
Whitney Houston:... FILE - In this March 25, 2001 file photo, Bobby Brown and his then wife Whitney Houston arrive at Vanity Fair's Oscar party at Morton's in Hollywood on Sunday, March 25, 2001. Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday Feb. 11, 2012. She was 48. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
Nearly 1 in 20 U... In this Feb. 4, 2012 photo, Donna Brent, 63, works out her leg at her home in Deerfield, Ill. Brent says decades of racket ball, tennis, softball and other sports took a toll on her knees, but she got used to living with the pain, even when she became bowlegged and developed a limp. When pain started getting in the way of some of her sports, she gave in to her doctor's advice and had a knee replacement operation last June on her right knee. Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have bionic knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Researchers prob... CORRECTS LOCATION TO BLOCK ISLAND SOUND INSTEAD OF LONG ISLAND SOUND - Researchers lower an underwater robot into Block Island Sound off the Westerly, R.I., coast Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to explore a shipwreck thought to be the USS Revenge, commanded by navy hero Oliver Hazard Perry. The Revenge sank in 1811 after striking a reef. (AP Photo/David Klepper)
Coroner rules Do... FILE - This Monday, March 6, 2006 file photo shows Don Cornelius at his office in Los Angeles. Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show "Soul Train," died Wednesday morning, Feb. 1, 2012 at his home in Los Angeles, police said. He was 75. Coroner's officials announced Tuesday that they had ruled Cornelius' death a suicide and that the "Soul Train" founder killed himself with a gunshot wound to the head. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Oregon copter pi... Dan Conne carries two of his dogs out of the Curry County animal shelter in Gold Beach, Ore., on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 where they were cared for while he, his wife and son spent six nights lost in the forest of southwestern Oregon. The Connes were rescued Saturday. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
Verizon to set u... In this Jan. 6, 2012 photo, attendees check out the unveiling of 4G devices at the Verizon booth during the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. Challenging Netflix, Verizon said Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Super Bowl draws... Tom Amendola, of Secaucus, N.J., celebrates a New York Giants win against the New England Patriots in the NFL football Super Bowl with a homemade trophy in Times Square, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Ariz. police beg... FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Glendale, Ariz., Police Department shows 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley. Police began searching a landfill south of Phoenix on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 for the body of the 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing for more than four months and is now believed dead. (AP Photo/Glendale Police Department, File)
Komen drops plan... The Susan Komen For The Cure international headquarters are shown in the Dallas suburb of Addison, Texas, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. After three days of controversy, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity says it is reversing its decision to cut breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
After IPO, Faceb... FILE - This Oct. 15, 2011 file photo, shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiling during a meeting in San Francisco. Will Facebook list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq? It comes down to "where Mark Zuckerberg wants to get his picture taken," the founder of one market research company says. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
Professor docume... In a Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 photo, David Oliver, left, hugs his wife Debra Parker Oliver receiving encouraging test results at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia, Mo. David Oliver has built a career teaching medical school students and hospital workers how to care for dying patients. Now, after the University of Missouri research professor was diagnosed with cancer in September 2011 and broke the news to colleagues by video on the Internet, he is applying those lessons to his own life. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Paul: Immigratio... Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks to members of the group Hispanics in Politics, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Taliban deny the... Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, left, speaks during a joint press conference with her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasool at the foreign ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
Lisa Marie Presl... In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo, Lisa Marie Presley stands next to her childhood crib displayed with other mementos in the new exhibit "Elvis Through His Daughter's Eyes" which opens Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. She was born on Feb. 1, 1968. (AP Photo/Lance Murphey)
Iran said greate... FBI Director Robert Mueller, left, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to assess current and future national security threats. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Afghan woman kil... FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, an Afghan woman, center, peeks inside a hospital while she and others wait for an employee to let them enter, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan woman has been strangled to death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted, police said Monday. It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months including a 15-year-old tortured and forced into prostitution by in-laws and a female rape victim who was imprisoned for adultery. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)
'All in the Fam... FILE - In this May 26, 1963 file photo, writer Carl Reiner, right, and director John Rich, left, pose with the Emmy awards they won for their work on the "Dick Van Dyke Show," during the annual Emmy Awards presentation in Hollywood, Calif. Television director John Rich, who won an Emmy Award for the memorable "All in the Family" scene showing Sammy Davis Jr. planting a kiss on Archie Bunker, has died in Los Angeles at 86. (AP Photo/File)
Romney tries to ... Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Wintrhop University in Rock Hill, S.C., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Guilty plea in r... This booking photo provided Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011, by the Cherokee Sheriffs Department, shows Ryan Brunn,20, of Canton after his arrest for the murder in the beating death of a 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin. Brunn was indicted in the beating, rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl at an apartment complex in Canton on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Cherokee Sheriffs Department)
Moody's may down... Moody's sign on 7 World Trade Center tower in New York
Romney: Obama go... Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event in Mesa
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EU undeterred by... Karel De Gucht, European Trade Commisioner
The U.S. foreclo... A view of a multi-million dollar home in foreclosure on Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills
Karzai says Afgh... Afghanistan's President Karzai reviews the troops as he arrives at Orly airport near Paris
Michigan biggest... Republican presidential candidate antorum speaks as Romney listens during the Republican presidential candidates debate in Tampa
Clinton says mov... U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toasts to China's Vice President Xi Jinping at a luncheon at the State Department in Washington
Analysis: Thinki... German Chancellor Merkel attends news conference after talks with Macedonian Prime Minister Gruevski at Chancellery in Berlin
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World Bank's Zoe... World Bank President Zoellick attends a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Euro zone ponder... A Greek and an EU flag fly over the Greek ministry of finance in Athens
Kellogg to buy P... Cans of Pringles are seen on display in New York
Obama to stress ... President Obama delivers a statement pushing Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance to the end of 2012, in Washington
Police check lin... Cleaners sweep the road as police and forensic experts investigate the site where a man was injured when a bomb he was carrying exploded, in central Bangkok
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Egypt to hold pr... Demonstrators take part in a protest demanding the army to hand power to civilians, at Tahrir square in Cairo
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China to keep in... China's nation flag flies in front of the headquarters of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, in Beijing
Buffett builds m... Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett wanders the company trade show before his company's annual meeting in Omaha
Websites of exch... A pedestrian walks past the NASDAQ building in New York City
Flights by U.S. ... Two ground crew members walk past a United Airlines airplane as it sits at a gate at Newark Liberty International Airport
Penn State spend... Students pass by a U.S. flag at half-staff at Penn State University in State College Pennsylvania in honor of Joe Paterno
U.S., China must... U.S. Vice President Biden and China's Vice President Xi attend a business roundtable event at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington
Yahoo, Alibaba t... A man walks past a logo of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd at its headquarters on the outskirts of Hangzhou
Obama: "hopeful"... U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on his administration's 2013 budget at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale
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Italy prosecutor... Amanda Knox gestures while speaking during a news conference at Sea-Tac International Airport, Washington
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