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TOKYO - JANUARY 06: A member of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association balances on top of a bamboo ladder as he performs a ladder stunt during the New Year's fire review conducted by the Tokyo Fire Department at Tokyo Big Sight on January 6, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The annual event, featuring various demonstrations of the latest firefighting and emergency rescue techniques, aims to promote the prevention of fire and disaster. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

TOKYO - JANUARY 06: A member of the Edo Firemanship Preservation Association balances on top of a bamboo ladder as he performs a ladder stunt during the New Year's fire review conducted by the Tokyo Fire Department at Tokyo Big Sight on January 6, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The annual event, featuring various demonstrations of the latest firefighting and emergency rescue techniques, aims to promote the prevention of fire and disaster. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)

Five-year-old Isabelle Doyles cools herself in a fountain on the Corso in Sydney's Manly Beach, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. While temperatures in Sydney's outer suburbs soar to a maximum of 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit), those at the beaches enjoy a milder 31 Celsius (88 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Locals and tourists visit Bondi Beach in Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, on a hot Sydney day. While temperatures in Sydney's outer suburbs soar to a maximum of 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit), those at the beaches enjoy a milder 31 C (88 F). (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

TOKYO - JANUARY 06: Sumo Grand Champion Asashoryu (R), real name Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, performs 'Dohyo-iri' (ring purification ritual) in a new ceremonial rope belt at the Meiji Shrine on January 6, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. It is the custom that Sumo Grand Champions celebrate the new year by performing the ritual at the Meiji Shrine. (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images)

Israeli Army soldiers take cover as a mobile artillery piece fires towards targets in the southern Gaza Strip, on the Israel side of the border with Gaza Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until "peace and tranquility" are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

LONDON - JANUARY 06: A black swan swims past the frozen branches of a willow tree on Duck Island in St James's Park on January 6, 2009 in London. Britain is in the grip of freezing conditions with snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures affecting most of the country. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

DOHA, QATAR - JANUARY 06: Rafael Nadal of Spain serves during a practice session during the Exxon Mobil Qatar Open Tennis on January 6, 2009 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

Orthodox believer Georgios Mihailidis, from Kavala, Greece, back left, retrieves the wooden cross from the waters of the Golden Horn water course in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. Greek Orthodox men braved the cold winter weather to dive into Istanbul's Golden horn, in a race to retrieve the wooden cross, which was thrown into the water by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the World's Orthodox Christians, in a traditional ceremony commemorating Epiphany. (AP Photo\Ibrahim Usta)

Parts of South Block is seen shrouded in fog as Indian Navy sailors wait to accord a ceremonial reception for UAE's navy chief in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Ty Reed, 9, flies off his sled after hitting a bump on a hill in Farmington, N.M., on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Lindsay Pierce)

President-elect Barack Obama is silhouetted during his arrival on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, for a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House Chief of Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel, left, talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, after Pelosi met with President-elect Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President-elect Barack Obama, center, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., stops to greet five-year-old Cartz Metz, from Rogersville, Tenn. on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 5: In this handout from the Obama Transition Office, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) and his wife Michelle Obama (2nd R) get their daughters Malia (2nd L),10, and Sasha, 7, ready for their first day of school January 5, 2009 at the Hay Adams Hotel, in Washington, DC. Obama will be meeting with congressional leaders and his economic advisors today. (Photo by Callie Shell/Obama Transition Office via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 5: In this handout from the Obama Transition Office, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) gets his daughter Sasha, 7, ready for her first day of school January 5, 2009 at the Hay Adams Hotel, in Washington, DC. Obama will be meeting with congressional leaders and his economic advisors today. (Photo by Callie Shell/Obama Transition Office via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 5: In this handout from the Obama Transition Office, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) and his wife Michelle Obama (2nd R) get their daughters Malia (2nd L),10, and Sasha, 7, ready for their first day of January 5, 2009 at the Hay Adams Hotel, in Washington, DC. Obama will be meeting with congressional leaders and his economic advisors today. (Photo by Callie Shell/Obama Transition Office via Getty Images)

A man rides a bicycle in the snow near the village of Chavdar, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)

A swan attempts to land on a frozen lake near Castleford northern England Monday Jan. 5, 2009. Freezing temperatures and snow have struck large areas of Britain. (AP Photo/ John Giles/PA) **NO SALES**

A man gathers wood in a frozen field on the outskirts of Bucharest, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Romania experiences a wave of cold weather with temperatures as low as minus 31 degrees Centigrade (minus 24 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A snow sculpture takes shape at the Snow Festival in Harbin, northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Emily Rhodes, 9, puts a hat on a snowman near her home in Cambridge, England Monday Jan. 5 2009. Snow fell on large areas of Britain on Monday. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA) **NO SALES**

Brandy Lee clears snow from the front of The Coffee House on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, in Gallup, N.M. Gallup and the surrounding area received nearly a foot of snow on Sunday and Monday morning. (AP Photo/ Gallup Independent, Brian Leddy)

A woman wrapped in woolens waits for her train in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. A near-freezing cold has caused another 20 deaths in northern India, raising the toll to 34 since the start of the new year, a government official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A police officer carries an infant to a waiting ambulance following a standoff between a former police officer and authorities at a motel in Madison, Ga., Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Authorities say David Dietz, 25, kidnapped the infant and two women on Saturday night in West Columbia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Pet monkey Rani, right, plays with stray dog Ramu in Gurgaon, India, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Rani has been reared by Durga Prasad, who stays alone away from his family in eastern Bihar state, working as a cart puller to ferry materials in an industrial neighborhood of Gurgaon. Prasad has reared Rani since she was a baby after he found her near his house six months ago. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

In this photo released by the Guatemalan National Disaster Agency, CONRED, rescue workers watch a mudslide along a highway near the village of Aquil Grande, northern Guatemala, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The landslide that hit Sunday Jan. 4 has left at least 22 people dead and 15 injured, officials said.(AP Photo/Guatemalan National Disaster Agency)

From left to right, Eber Hernandez and Blass GuTierres of Top Tex Electrical Contractors, remove Christmas lights from trees along River Oaks Blvd. on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, in Houston. It took a team of men two weeks to put up the lights before the holidays, but only a day to cut them down. The lights are not saved and reused, but rather collected and thrown away. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)

Sikh devotees stir milk in a large utensil at a community kitchen at the Golden Temple, Sikhs holiest shrine, on the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh's tenth and the last Guru, in Amritsar, India, Monday, Jan. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A Sikh devotee prays at the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, on the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, Sikhism's tenth and last Guru, in Amritsar, India, Monday, Jan. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A Sikh devotee walks with an earthen lamp in front of the Golden Temple, Sikhs holiest shrine, on the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh's tenth and last Guru, in Amritsar, India, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

People gather around a bonfire on the night before the Christian Orthodox Christmas Eve, in Nov Dojran, southeastern Macedonia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Christian Orthodox believers in Macedonia, who follow the Julian calendar, will celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Children look at sunset just outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. The temperature in St.Petersburg is minus 11 Centigrade (12 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

This undated hand out artist rendering provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the latest view of the Milky Way's structure. Our Milky Way galaxy may not be the snack-sized collection of stars astronomers have long thought it was. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Robert Hurt, Mark Reid)

Pallbearers carry the flag-draped casket of Army Maj. John P. Pryor into the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Pryor, of Moorestown, N.J., died Christmas Day when a mortar round hit near his living quarters in Iraq. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

This photo taken Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009 provided by French Defense Minister, shows suspected pirates intercepted by Marine commandos of the French Navy in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia coasts. French government officials say the Jean de Vienne intercepted and captured 19 pirates Sunday as they tried to take over two cargo ships, one Croatian and the other Panamian. (AP Photo/French Navy/French Defense Minister/HO)

Injured people lying on the ground are assisted after a suicide attack in front of the shrine of Imam Mousa al-Kazim, one of the holiest men in Shiite Islam, in Baghdad's northern Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. A woman hiding among Iranian pilgrims with a bomb strapped under her black robe killed more than three dozen people Sunday outside a Baghdad mosque during ceremonies commemorating the death of one of Shiite Islam's most revered saints. (AP Photo/IRNA)

Illinois U.S. Senate appointee Roland Burris holds a news conference at Chicago's Midway airport Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, before leaving for Washington for a high-stakes showdown on Capitol Hill about whether he'll succeed President-elect Barack Obama in Congress. Burris was appointed last week by embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Vice president elect Joseph Biden, D-Del., kisses the hand of Nuala Pell, wife of former Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., after Biden spoke during funeral services for Sen. Pell at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Newport, R.I., Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Bob Breidenbach, Pool)

Ktm rider Marc Coma of Spain competes to win the 3rd stage of the Argentina Dakar Rally 2009 between Puerto Madryn and Ingeniero Jacobacci, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

A driver steers his BMW during the 3rd stage of the Argentina Dakar Rally 2009 between Puerto Madryn and Ingeniero Jacobacci, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

KTM rider Miguel Puertas Herrera of Spain takes off his helmet during the 3rd stage of the Argentina Dakar Rally 2009 between Puerto Madryn and Ingeneiro Jacobacci, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Volkswagen driver Carlos Sainz of Spain competes during the 3rd stage of the Argentina Dakar Rally 2009 between Puerto Madryn and Ingeniero Jacobacci, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

KTM rider Cyril Despres of France competes during the 3rd stage of the Argentina Dakar Rally 2009 between Puerto Madryn and Ingeniero Jacobacci, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)