Phoca vitulina Common (or Harbour) seal Couple on sand beach. Wadden Sea, Netherlands Project number: 9E0140.5
The Dow Jones news ticker and an advertisement for the movie "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" are seen in Times Square Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 in New York. Wall Street joined world stock markets in a precipitous plunge Friday, with the Dow Jones industrials dropping more than 400 points in early trading and all the major indexes falling more than 4 percent. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
In this photo provided by his daughter, Edie Vonnegut, writer Kurt Vonnegut is seen during the summer of 2006 in Barnstable, Mass., on Cape Cod. Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence in shaping 20th-century American literature with books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," died Wednesday April 11, 2007, at age 84 after suffering brain injuries from a recent fall. (AP Photo/Edie Vonnegut)
