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  • Anupam Nath/AP

    Indian fishermen sit inside a country boat as monsoon clouds hover over River Brahmaputra before a thunder shower in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

    Nice: shelter in a storm.

  • Bobby Yip/Reuters

    Researchers work behind China's first cloned pig, stuffed and displayed at the "Cloning & Genetic Engineering" section of the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen, southern China March 3.

    The pig scares me.

  • Marius Becker/EPA

    Two ring-tailed lemurs look at the photographer's camera from their enclosure at the zoo of Frankfurt Main, Germany, 30 March 2010. Three ring-tailed lemur babies were given birth seven weeks ago.

    In the rest of the pictures on the wire, the lemurs have seriously startled expressions. In comparison, they actually seem sort of calm in this one.

  • Dana Stone/AP file

    Sean Flynn, right, who was covering the war in Southeast Asia for Time magazine, is seen during operations near Ha Thanh, some 325 miles from Saigon, in South Vietnam in 1968. On the left is a Montagnard mercenary, a native hill tribesman fighting in alliance with the U.S. Special Forces.

    According to the Associated Press: "Forensic tests will be conducted on what two searchers believe are the remains of photographer Sean Flynn, son of Hollywood star Errol Flynn, who disappeared during the Cambodian War 40 years ago, the U.S. Embassy [in Phnom Penh] said Monday."

  • Joshua Lott/Reuters

    U.S. Senator John McCain and former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin acknowledge the crowd during a campaign rally for McCain at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona March 26, 2010. McCain will challenge JD Hayworth during the Republican primary in August.

    Sarah Palin was in rare form today on the campaign trail in Arizona. It's amazing how quickly political fortunes change. In case you missed it, there's a link to the video below.

  • /KCNA via Reuters

    In an undated photo released by North Korea's official news agency on Friday, March 26, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il speaks during his visit to the Chunma Electricity Machinery Factory in North Korea.

    So this isnt a very good picture. But it fascinates me nonethelessas pictures of the reclusive leader often do. First of all, they are rare. Second of all, its often impossible to confirm dates and locations, so the uncertainty on captions makes life difficult for picture editorsparticularly when there is news out of the Korean peninsula, as there is today. Finally, whats up with the one glove? Michael Jackson tribute, maybe?

  • Saul Loeb/AFP - Getty Images

    US President Barack Obama holds up copies of Karl Rove's and Mitt Romney's book at the Prairie Lights Bookstore during an unscheduled stop in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, March 25. Obama traveled to Iowa to speak about the recently signed healthcare legislation.

    A little light reading for the trip back to Washington?

  • David Guttenfelder/AP

    A U.S. Marine wakes up in the morning after sleeping with his platoon in a mud walled compound in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

    The AP published thirty pictures Guttenfelder took in Marjah on his iPhone, using a 'Polaroid' filter that automatically adjusts contrast, saturation, and the like to make pictures look like they came from an instant film camera. The series is generating some debate in the photojournalism communitysome folks think it's a gimmick and not photojournalism because it involves image manipulation for aesthetic reasons.

  • Lewis Hine/Library of Congress

    Neil Gallagher, Wilkes Barre, Pa. Born January 14, 1891. Went to work at about 9 years. Worked about two years in breaker. Went inside at about 11 years. "Tripper," tending door. 83 cents [a] day. Injured May 2, 1904. Leg crushed between cars. Amputated at Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre. Amputated twice. No charge. Received nothing from company. "Was riding between cars and we aren't supposed to ride between them." No written rules, but they tell you not to.

    As we did background research on amputees around the world for our ongoing project in Haiti, this picture of an American child worker in 1909 really stood out. The difference between medical care, workplace safety, and child labor laws in 1909 and 2010 is truly vast. Hine's photography arguably had something to do with that.

  • John Brecher/msnbc.com

    Prosthetic expert Jay Tew helps Schneily Similien walk with his new prosthetic leg on Monday, March 22, 2010, at Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschappelles, Haiti.

    Months after losing his foot in the devastating January earthquake, the msnbc.com team in Haiti witnessed Schneily taking his first steps with his new artificial limb. See it for yourself, and his Dad's emotional reaction. Link below in the comments.

  • M. Spencer Green/AP

    Hazel Evans, 20, smokes a cigarette near an open window as she spends time with her infant daughter, Autumn Evans, in Round Lake, Ill. Hazel, who at the time of Autumn's birth was 19, had no job or home of her own and was already struggling with 2-year-old twins, sought the help of Safe Families, a private Chicago-based social services program which finds volunteer foster families to care for needy parents' children for three to six months. Through the program, Autumn went to live with the Becker family just days after she was born.

    I'm impressed by photographer M. Spencer Green's months-long commitment to Hazel's story. See the three-part slideshow at the link below in the comments.

  • John Brecher/msnbc.com

    Friends before the earthquake, Carmine Geuvvier,16, left, and Mike Shelove Julmiste, 25, visit with each other after having their prosthetics adjusted on Saturday, March 20, in Cange, Haiti. A prosthetics group travels from Hopital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles to Cange each Saturday, two and a half hours away, to see patients that otherwise wouldn't have access to their care. Geuvvier lost both legs and Julmiste lost her left leg during the January earthquake in Haiti.

    msnbc.com continues their series on Haiti's earthquake amputees, including this story of friends joining together after tragic injuries and facing their future with humor and good grace. Follow the series at the link below.

  • Ramon Espinosa/AP

    A girl jumps rope in the La Saline schoolyard in La Saline slum in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 15, 2010. Community leaders organized a day of entertainment for the students of La Saline school while it is closed for lack of teachers.

    We considered this image for last week's edition of The Week in Pictures, but it didn't make the cut. But I like it -- while we see this shadow technique frequently, the pleasing composition of this shot and the whimsical line of feet set this one apart from the others for me.

  • Gemunu Amarasinghe/ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Raj Kaliya Dhanuk lies still on a bed with weights on her eye after receiving local anesthesia at Hetauda community eye hospital, in Hetauda, Nepal. Dhanuk and more than 500 others, most of whom have never seen a doctor before, have traveled for days by bicycle, motorbike, bus and even on their relatives' backs to reach Dr. Sanduk Ruit's mobile eye camp. Nepalese master surgeon Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach.

    As I was putting together a slideshow on this surgical feat, I kept coming back to this frame, finding it disturbing and arresting at the same time. Check out the slideshow at the link below.

  • Bikas Das/AP

    Onlookers watch a building on fire in Calcutta, India, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. A fire broke out in a multistory building in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta on Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring another 14, police said.

    The urge to rubberneck at the scene of a tragic event is apparently uncontrollable. It certainly doesn't look like the crowds of onlookers could be helping the situation.

  • Carsten Rehder/EPA

    People carry chairs at the beach of St. Peter-Ording, in Germany, on Tuesday, March 23.

    Looks like a scene out of Pac-Man.

  • Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

    Workers demolish ships to recycle the valuable steel at a shipbreaking yard on March 22, 2010 in Cilincing, Jakarta, Indonesia. Ships are driven into the 10km beach strip here at high tide, where demolition begins for a fee usually no more than USD5 per day for the workers.

    Looks like very hard work for five bucks a day.

  • Muhammed Muheisen/AP

    A Pakistani man, showers in a water reservoir on World Water Day in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, March 22, 2010. Clean Water for a Healthy World is the theme for World Water Day 2010.

    One of the many strong images moving from around the world on the occasion of World Water Day.

  • Paul Hilton/EPA

    Left: The Hong Kong skyline is covered in a blanket of smog, 22nd March 2010. The Hong Kong air pollution index hit record levels today surging to 479 points at most of the roadside stations. Right: On a clear day you can see forever.....in this photo made 17 June 2009 and made available 22 March 2010, there are clear blue skies over Hong Kong, China, with just a solo cloud in the far distance.

    I wonder how this would look in a stereographic photo viewer.

  • Antonio Bolfo/Getty Images for msnbc.com

    Schneily Similien, age 4, moves through the tent camp where his family lives in Leogane, Haiti. The boy's left calf and foot were crushed when the Jan. 12 earthquake rocked his country. For five days, no medical care could be found in the wrecked capital city, Port-au-Prince, and by the time Schneily's parents got him to a hospital, amputation was the only option. Antonio Bolfo / Getty Images for msnbc.com

    Msnbc.com is in Haiti to track the story of Schneily and other amputees as they work to build new lives. See the link below to learn more.

  • Jim Seida/msnbc.com

    A warning sign is seen near a robot on the Cozy Coupe production line inside the Little Tikes factory in Hudson, Ohio on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Click the link below to see the robot in action.

    The sign read: DANGER - DO NOT ENTER THE ROBOT TRIMMING CELL WHEN THE ROBOT IS WORKING. To see the robot in action, and to learn how Cozy Coupes are made, click the link below.

  • Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

    Riot police guard the residence of Thai Prime Minister Abhist Vejjajiva as supporters of deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra throw human blood on March 17, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Protesters are donating blood with the intention of collecting one million cubic centimeters of blood to be thrown in demonstrations.

    What an appalling waste.

  • Sergei Chuzavkov/AP

    A model displays an outfit by Ukrainian designer Elena Burenina during a Fashion Week in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 15, 2010.

    Fashion shows are just getting weirder and weirder...

  • /EPA

    A rat is roasted for a meal in Degholdong village, in the Baksa district of Assam state, India, March 14. Every year, a large portion of the crops is destroyed by rats. The rats sometimes weigh more than a kilogram and they eat everything that is fresh and green. Rat hunters who usually belong to 'Adivasi' or tribal communities. They hunt the rats at night by using indigenous traps locally called 'Sitap' and made out of bamboo, and an average hunt which lasts for two nights, yields ten to twenty kgs of rats.

    I'm so thankful that I don't have to put a rat on my grill for dinner.

  • John W. Cannon/Elk City Daily News via AP

    A pickup truck drives across the top of Foss Lake dam with a funnel cloud in the background on Monday, March 8, in Foss Lake, Okla.

    So far this year, there have been 29 confirmed tornadoes across the U.S. This time last year, there were nearly two times that amount.

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