FILE - In a Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the election night party at McCormick Place, in Chicago. President Barack Obama will make his first public comments Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 since the victory speech Photo by
In this July 6, 2012 photo, excavation continues at the Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi coal mining facility in southern Mongolia. Fully 90 percent of Mongolia's exports _ coal, copper, cashmere and livestock _ go to China, which in turn sends machinery, appliances Photo by STF
Michael Richard Smith pilots his canoe in Boston Harbor, in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. The 49-year-old Maine native said Tuesday that he's been paddling the waters of metro Boston since at least late summer with all of his possessions aboard a 14-foot, 40-year-old aluminum canoe that he patches with duct tape when necessary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Photo by
