In this image provided by the US Army, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes (left to right, center), freed July 2, 2008 after more than five years of captivity in Colombia, stand with, front row from left - Col. Wendy Martinson, Garrison Commander of Fort Sam Houston; Brig. Gen. James Gilman, Commander of Brooke Army Medical Center; and Maj. Gen. Keith M. Huber, Commander of U.S. Army South; and members of their staffs.

In a March 22, 1979 file photo, from left: Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), activist Phyllis Schlafly, and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), stand at the podium during an anti-Equal Rights Amendment dinner in Washington. The dinner was held to celebrate the date of what would have been the expiration of the seven-year ratification period for the ERA before its extension by Congress.Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died Friday, July 4, 2008, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86.

A firefighter walks out of a brush fire burning out of control in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif., on Saturday July 5, 2008. A slew of wildfires, most ignited by lightning two weeks ago, have burned more than 800 square miles of land throughout California. The blazes have destroyed at least 67 homes and other buildings and contributed to the death of a firefighter who suffered a heart attack while digging fire lines.

Head rigger Kimi Feuer makes final adjustments to Kent Couch's lawn chair Saturday, July 5, 2008, before tying on more than 150 giant party balloons in Bend, Ore. Couch lifted off successfully in his third bid to fly from his gas station in Bend, to Idaho, a distance of more than 200 miles.

In this June 10, 2008 file photo, an American flag flutters within view of the posted prices for gasoline at a station in Cle Elum, Wash. The nation's psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. The Independence Day holiday is typically a time to honor all that we are as a nation, but the feeling is there's less to celebrate on this our 232nd birthday. Happy? It would seem not.

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM EDT shows a few areas of clouds in the Caribbean Sea, but no tropical development is noticed in the area. Clouds on the far right of the image are associated with Tropical Storm Bertha as it roars through the tropical Atlantic Ocean.

Black-I Robotics founder Brian Hart, whose son was killed during an ambush in Iraq in 2003, poses in Tyngsborough, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 with a six-wheel cost-effective robot that his company designed to protect troops and perform certain risky missions.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attends the Gap Complex Fire briefing at the Incident Command Post at Earl Warren Fairgrounds in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday July 5, 2008.

Firefighters watch as a brush fire burns out of control in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif., on Saturday July 5, 2008. A slew of wildfires, most ignited by lightning two weeks ago, have burned more than 800 square miles of land throughout California. The blazes have destroyed at least 67 homes and other buildings and contributed to the death of a firefighter who suffered a heart attack while digging fire lines.

Trial evidence that was used in the case against Lester Leroy Bower Jr. is shown in the Grayson County District Clerk's office Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Sherman, Texas. Three months after four bodies were found shot execution-style in an airplane hangar on the B&B Ranch north of Dallas, Bower, a chemical salesman, was charged with capital murder.

**Paperwork for his firearms students lines the office of Allan E. Lucas, Jr., in Washington on on Tuesday July 1, 2008. Lucas has been trying for two years to open an indoor shooting range in the city to train security guards and other clients. Because the city currently has no zoning category for such a business, he takes his clients to ranges in the suburbs. "It's pretty ridiculous to think of so many people qualifying to register for firearms and not having a range to practice on," he said.

A home sits unharmed in Crown King, Ariz. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's recent history have been started by people. In Arizona, the latest wildfire to be caused by man has burned more than 15 square miles, destroyed four homes in the community of Crown King, forced the weeklong evacuation of more than 100 people and cost upward of $2 million.

In this still photo taken from surveillance video provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Esmin Green, 49, lies face down on the floor in the psychiatric ward of the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., as a security guard wheels over in his chair to see her Thursday, June 19, 2008. Green had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lay writhing, face down on the floor. The guard didn't leave his chair, rolling it around a corner to stare at the body, then rolling away a few moments later. Green was dead by 6:35. Faces were blurred in the video provided by the NYCLU.

A July 2, 2008 file photo shows Nicholas T. Sheley being escorted out of the Granite City Police Department Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Granite City, Ill. Authorities from two states conducted an exhaustive manhunt for Sheley, who is suspected in eight grisly killings and was arrested Tuesday evening outside a bar in Granite City. His arrest came after one of the bar patrons remembered a TV news image of Sheley's mug and realizing Sheley was at the bar notified police.

This artist's rendering provided by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation shows the planned visitors center for the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage in the Bronx. Renovations are scheduled to begin next year on the cottage and a visitors center is under construction.

Fireworks explode over the Manhattan skyline during the 32nd annual Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display, Friday, July 4, 2008 in New York. Some 30,000 shells were set off — more than 1,000 per minute. Organizers said this year's show included new nautical fireworks that float on the water. Other new shells will go through multiple transformations after they launch, providing four different effects.

This Monday, Dec. 12, 2005 file photo, supplied by the Jesse Helms Center shows Bono, left, of the Irish rock band U2 and former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms share a greeting at a pre-concert meal at the new Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., before U2 played to a crowd of 17,000. Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served 30 years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July, the Jesse Helms research center says. He was 86.

This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.

Residents talk to police Friday, July 4, 2008, after four people were killed and two injured in a shooting earlier in the morning on Milwaukee's north side. Two women, ages 23 and 27, and two men, ages 24 and 28, were killed at about 2:30 a.m., police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said. Two others were injured.

This image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Bertha taken at 7 p.m. EDT July 3, 2008. At 11 p.m. EDT Thursday, Bertha, The second named storm of the year, was centered 185 miles west-southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands moving toward the west at about 14 mph, and forecasters expect that to continue for the next two days. Maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph. Some gradual strengthening was forecast during the next day or two. The first named storm this year, Arthur, formed in the Atlantic the day before the season officially started June 1 and soaked the Yucatan Peninsula.

This undated file photo shows a close up of the Statue of Liberty. The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.

James Taylor is shown in this undated photo provided by Northern Arizona Healthcare. Authorities say Taylor, the lone survivor of a mid-air crash of two medical helicopters has died at a hospital. Police and officials at Flagstaff Medical Center say 36-year-old James Taylor died Friday, July 4, 2008.

Detroit City Council Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. leads the council during a meeting in Detroit, Monday, June 30, 2008. A mayoral text-messaging sex scandal, federal investigation into a City Council-approved $47 million sludge recycling deal, and poorly run and deficit-plagued public school system have dashed inroads toward respect and reopened Detroit to outside ridicule.

In this Friday, June 21, 2002 file photo, visitors and residents spend the day on the beach in Belmar, N.J. Revelers in this Jersey shore party town can now legally drink from unregistered beer kegs and give people the finger. Belmar has scrapped laws relating to kegs and flipping the bird, on the grounds that they were difficult to enforce.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., second from left, his wife Cindy McCain, second from right, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., right, listen as Monsignor Diego Monroy Ponce, left, discusses details from an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist, shown with Carole Rome Sunday Nov. 25, 2007 on the sidelines of the Washington Redskins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL football game. Crist proposed to Rome Thursday July 3rd at his St. Petersburg, Fla., apartment.

Trinity Boat President John Dane III talks with the Associated Press in New Orleans, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Although the world economy is being shaken by $135-per-barrel oil, there's no shortage of buyers willing to put down tens of millions of dollars for a "super yacht," a floating second home reserved for stratospheric income brackets.

Joey Chestnut is declared the winner of the annual hot dog eating contest, Friday July 4, 2008, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Joey Chestnut reclaimed the top spot at the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island on Friday after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi with 59 hot dogs in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off.

In this undated photo provided by Guernsey's, a New York City auction house, Rosa Parks' Presidential Medal of Freedom is shown. Guernsey's has been asked by a Wayne County, Mich., probate court judge in Detroit to find a buyer, preferably a museum, university or other institution for thousands of Parks' personal items. Among them are her presidential and congressional medals, a post card from Martin Luther King Jr., and the hat Parks is believed to have been wearing the day in December 1955 she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus, cementing her spot in civil rights history.

In this April 18, 2001 file photo, Australian actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movie trilogy poses in front of a movie poster for "Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles," at a screening of the movie, at the Paramount studios in Los Angeles. Hogan challenged Australian tax authorities Friday, July 4, 2008, to "come and get me" in the United States after a newspaper report that he was under investigation for tax evasion.

In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, tomatoes ripen on the vine in Hanover County, Va. Since a salmonella scare has caused many customers to shun what's normally a summer favorite, tomato farmers across the nation have had to plow under their fields and leave their crop to rot in packinghouses.