President-elect Barack Obama met with Senator John McCain on Monday at Mr. Obama's transition office in Chicago. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy returns to Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. after having brain surgery.Kennedy is pictured with his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and their dogs Sunny and Splash. (AP Photos/Lauren Victoria Burke and Susan Walsh)
Election officials and volunteers begin the election recount process in the Senate race between Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman at the Ramsey County election office on November 19, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every ballot, nearly 3 million in total, from all 87 Minnesota counties will be recounted by hand. (Photo by Cory Ryan/Getty Images)
Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Palestinian school girls eat sandwiches provided by the United Nations, at a UN elementary school at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. Israel's tightening Gaza blockade, a response to Palestinian militant rocket fire, has led to frequent blackouts throughout Gaza and resulted in shortages of food, supplies and even cash.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Five-year-old Layla Watson stands over a cross (on Monday, Nov. 17 2008), placed in memory of Joshua Wiggins, 11, who died when a tornado struck his home near Elm City early Saturday morning. Layla Watson, with help from her grandmother Rebecca Watson, picked out this bear at the dollar store to leave beside Wiggins' temporary memorial in front of the destroyed home. Rebecca Watson said she did not know Wiggins' family, but felt compelled, as a former Elm City resident, to leave something at the site. "I felt like I had to do something," said Rebecca Watson. Photo by Ted Richardson/The Charlotte News & Observer
Officer Kathleen DeNofa salutes during vigil for Sgt. Timothy Simpson at the scene of a car crash in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. Simpson, a 20-year-veteran of the Philadelphia police force, died following a crash with another vehicle while answering a call northeast of downtown Philadelphia late Monday. Simpson, the fifth Philadelphia police officer to die in the line of duty in the past year, was the former partner of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, an officer gunned down following a bank robbery in May. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Kathy and Bernie Hintzke (center and right) and volunteer Helen Barborich stuff boxes with DVDs, microwave popcorn, candy and a letter of support as part of Operation: Take a Soldier to the Movies. Journal Sentinel photo: Gary Porter
Florida State safety Myron Rolle reaches over to hug one of the children who won a health and fitness challenge at the Brighton Reservation School during half time of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, in Tallahassee, Fla. He might not be the best football player in the country, but he's certainly among the smartest. Florida State's Myron Rolle interviewed Saturday for a Rhodes Scholarship, just hours before the Seminoles played a key game against Maryland. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)
Wisconsin kicker Phillip Welch gets mobbed by teammates after making the game-winning extra point against Cal-Poly. Wisconsin won in overtime, 36-35 Saturday at Camp Randall.
Journal Sentinel photo: Joe Koshollek
Homestead's #32 Mike Peliska hold the trophy for #6 Andy Boll as he gives it kiss after their win over 13-11 Arrowhead in their Division 1 Championship game Friday, November 21,2008, at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison WI.(Journal Sentinel Photo by Joe Koshollek)
Burlington Catholic Central's Ben Wilde kisses the championship trophy. Burlington Catholic Central won the Division 7 championship, defeating Hilbert 37-14.Journal Sentinel photo: Joe Koshollek.
Jimmie Johnson celebrates winning the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday in Homestead, Fla. (Jason Smith | Getty Images)
A lone hunter surrounded by frost-caked brush and wilderness waits for prey in a tree stand on opening day of gun-deer season near Dale, Wis., Saturday morning, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/ Appleton Post-Crescent, M.P. King)
A girl plays with her dog during the season's first snow at a park in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
An immature female Snowy Owl is pictured on Texel, an island in northern Netherlands. The owl was discovered on the island on November 8, and attracted hundreds of birdwatchers to the island. The Snowy Owl, originating from arctic regions, is a rarity in the Netherlands as only two others have been spotted in the country this decade.(RENE POP, AFP/GETTY IMAGES / November 17, 2008)
A white Beluga whale has a snowman themed Christmas hat placed on his head at Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.(JUNKO KIMURA, GETTY IMAGES / November 17, 2008)
A woman watches Humboldt penguins swim behind glass at Taman Safari in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Rolling Hills Elementary kindergarten, Dominick Messer, 5, walks with Micah, a miniature therapy horse from DOGTORS & Associates in Springfield, Ohio, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/The Springfield News-Sun, Marshall Gorby)
Rigi, a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog sits in the benching area at the National Dog Show in Reading, Pa., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. The National Dog Show is scheduled to air Thursday, Nov. 27. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Seven Pomeranian dogs wear firefighter costumes during a fashion show of the Dog Olympics at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Tom Zynda snow blows the driveway at his home in South Dayton, N.Y., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Downwind from Lake Erie in western New York, 20 inches of snow has piled up in South Dayton. (AP Photo/Doug Benz)
A couple is seen on a tree-lined boulevard during heavy snow fall, in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
Dutch ice carver Helena Bangert works on an ice sculpture in Bremen, northern Germany, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Some 40 artists will carve 28 figures of Grimm's fairy tales. The ice sculpture festival opened its doors for the public on Nov. 22, 2008 and runs until Jan. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
"Hi, Santa," yells Aaron Weiss, 6 from Milwaukee, as Santa's sleigh passes by during Milwaukee's 82nd Annual Holiday Parade, Saturday. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood
A diver in Santa's costume feeds moray and spotted eagle ray as part of a Christmas event at Sunshine International aquarium in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
Participants from various sanitation and hygiene concerns address a press conference while sitting on toilets in front of Berlin's central railway station, on the occasion of World Toilet Day. The UN has established that some 38 percent of the world's population are living without adequate sanitation, and has called on governments to reduce that number by half by 2015.(JOHN MACDOUGALL, AFP/GETTY IMAGES / November 19, 2008)
Alaa Garmal from Egypt plays a game of chess sitting in front of a promotional mural during the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Nearly 1,300 male and female players from 152 countries are taking part in the tournament. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)
A competitor eats his way through pies during the Wookey Hole Big Eat 2008, the annual mince pie eating contest, at the Wookey Hole Show Caves on November 18 2008 in Wookey Hole, near Wells, England. Handpicked competitors, eating professionals and members of the public alike attempt to eat as many mince pies as possible in the space of 10 minutes for a prize of 1000GBP and the chance to compete in one of the biggest speed eating events of the year in the United States. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Tim Smith of Iowa City, Iowa, and Lori Rudy of Burlington, Iowa, back right, and the rest of their team charge into the icy water during the Southeast Iowa Polar Plunge Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, at Lake Geode State Park in Danville, Iowa. Proceeds from the event were raised in support of the Special Olympics Iowa. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, Matt Ryerson)
