A branch of Chase bank in New York City. JPMorgan Chase reported $11.7 billion in earnings in 2009, more than double its revenue from 2008. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption

An actor prepares to receive "shocks" from the audience on a fake TV game show, staged for a French documentary. Psychologists have questioned the ethics of such experiments because of possible mental trauma suffered by participants. Christophe Russeil, HO/AP hide caption

Jim Marshall shot photos for more than 500 album covers. Jim Britt hide caption

Police officers and investigators stand at the site of an explosion at the traffic police station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's Dagestan region on Jan. 6. A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the police station, killing at least six officers and wounding 16, police said. AP hide caption

U.S. Army Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, wearing a turban, stands with other graduates as they sing "The Army Goes Rolling Along" during a U.S. Army officer basic training graduation ceremony at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio on Monday. Darren Abate/AP hide caption

Scientists have discovered that at 7 months old, children respond to human voices and emotions in much the same way adults do. iStockphoto.com hide caption

Inmates sit in crowded conditions at California State Prison in Los Angeles. Like many California prisons, L.A. County jails are releasing prisoners early — before serving their entire sentences — because of budget constraints. AP hide caption

Mathias Pierre, photographed earlier this month in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Chana Joffe-Walt/NPR hide caption

Retired firefighter John DeGenova from Cranston, R.I., says good pension benefits were one of the reasons he entered his profession. Jim Zarroli/NPR hide caption

Residents hold balloons symbolizing fiber-optic cable in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Friday. A few hundred people turned out for the event, designed to attract Google's planned high-speed-fiber-optic network to the city. Katy Batdorff/The Grand Rapids Press/AP hide caption

On the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, women buy bleaching products sold in plastic bags without labels. Davia Nelson for NPR hide caption