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  • Donnie Reid / AP

    This undated photo released on Monday Feb. 28, 2011 by Panama’s Institute of Culture (INAC), show two archaeologists recovering a cannon that scientists believe may have belonged to British pirate, Captain Henry Morgan, at the mouth of the Rio Chagres off Colon, Panama. INAC announced on Monday that a team of archaeologists recovered six iron cannons near the site where according to historical records, Morgan’s flagship, the Satisfaction, ran aground in 1671.

    Pirate Henry Morgan's cannons found in Panama?

    Read the full story from here.

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  • Trees falling in Tennessee and Alabama due to high winds

    Here's more news about the weather in the region, including tornados and floods.

    Matt McKean / AP

    Tim Howard and Sonny Edwards with Colbert County road department work to remove a large oak tree which was blown down by high winds accompanying a severe thunderstorm that raced across northwest Alabama Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, crushing a walkway and damaging the roof, at Colbert County High School in Leighton, Ala.

    John Rawlston

    A large tree downed by strong storms lies in the wreckage of this house in Red Bank, Tenn., Monday, Feb 28, 2011.

    Angela Lewis

    A tree covers Bill and Candy Haley's two cars in North Chattanooga, Tenn. after heavy rain and winds ripped through the area, Monday, Feb 28, 2011. A third car was occupied when the tree fell.

     

  • NASA released some amazing solar flare video today

    Images like these, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Feb. 24, make we wish our video player had a "loop" function.

    Check out some previous posts of solar photography on PhotoBlog:

  • Man stands on ledge at Wisconsin Capitol amid ongoing protest

    Here's the latest news on the protests at the Wisconsin Capitol, and a story about the person on the ledge

    Scott Olson / Getty Images

    Police try to talk a protestor of the ledge of the capitol building February 28, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Protestors were asked to leave the building last night but many refused. Police have refused to unlock the entrances today because they are trying to prevent protestors from sleeping overnight in the building. Demonstrators have occupied building with a round-the-clock protest for the past 14 days protesting Governor Scott Walker's attempt to push through a bill that would restrict collective bargaining for most government workers in the state.

    Darren Hauck / Reuters

    Law enforcement officers try to talk with a protestor who was on a ledge of the state Capitol building during a protest against proposed budget cuts at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, February 28, 2011. Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker said on Sunday he would not back down in his confrontation with state public sector unions and repeated his threat to lay off state workers if the standoff continued. Tens of thousands of protesters marched against Walker's plan in Wisconsin on Saturday and solidarity rallies for labor rights were held around the country.

    Darren Hauck / Reuters

    Law enforcement officers forcibly remove a protestor who was on a ledge of the state Capitol building during a protest against proposed budget cuts at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, February 28, 2011. Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker said on Sunday he would not back down in his confrontation with state public sector unions and repeated his threat to lay off state workers if the standoff continued. Tens of thousands of protesters marched against Walker's plan in Wisconsin on Saturday and solidarity rallies for labor rights were held around the country. REUTERS/Darren Hauck (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY)

     

  • EDGARD GARRIDO / Reuters

    Taxis remain idle during a strike by taxi drivers outside the presidential house in Tegucigalpa February 28, 2011. The taxi drivers are demanding the government of President Porfirio Lobo pay a bonus to offset rising fuel prices, according to the Honduran Association of taxi drivers (ATAXISH). According to the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Juan Jose Cruz, the rise in fuel prices is due to the political crisis in the Middle East.

    Taxi drivers strike in Honduras to demand pay increases to offset rising fuel costs

    I wonder how the rising price of fuel affects the ice cream seller - are his supplies more costly, or do the protests create more business? Here are some recent stories about Honduras.

  • Fallen Marine: Burial service at Arlington National Cemetery

    Alex Brandon / AP

    The last of three volleys are fired during funeral services for U.S. Marine Sgt. Lucas T. Pyeatt at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on Monday, Feb. 28. Pyeatt, 24, of West Chester, Ohio, was killed Feb. 5th while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

    Alex Brandon / AP

    Marine Corps Funeral Director Gunnery Sgt. William J. Dixon, right, delivers condolences to the Pyeatt family, from left, Cynthia Pyeatt, her husband Lon Pyeatt, and their daughter Emily Smalley, during funeral services for their son U.S. Marine Sgt.

    Alex Brandon / AP

    The horse drawn caisson goes to the grave site of U.S. Marine Sgt. Lucas T. Pyeatt during burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on Monday.

    Alex Brandon / AP

    Cynthia Pyeatt, bends down to kiss the casket of her son, U.S. Marine Sgt. Lucas T. Pyeatt, during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on Monday.

    Full story here

  • Burnt prison in Benghazi, Libya

    Suhaib Salem / Reuters

    People burn pictures of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi inside the main prison of Gadhafi's forces in Benghazi on Monday, Feb. 28. Foreign powers accelerated efforts to help oust Gadhafi on Monday as rebels fought government forces trying to take back strategic coastal cities on either side of the capital Tripoli.

    Suhaib Salem / Reuters

    A man walks inside the burnt main prison of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi's forces in Benghazi on Monday.

    Asmaa Waguiha / Reuters

    An anti-government rebel stands in a prison used for detaining people at the main state security building, burnt by rebels in recent clashes with pro-government troops, in Benghazi, Feb. 28.

    Suhaib Salem / Reuters

    A man checks the execution room inside the burnt main prison of Libyan Muammar Gadhafi's forces in Benghazi, Feb. 28.

    Suhaib Salem / Reuters

    A man checks the burnt main prison of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi's forces in Benghazi, Feb. 28.

     See more photos out of Libya here.

  • Christian Gooden / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

    A section of Big Bend Road in Richmond Heights, Mo., is abandoned on Monday, Feb. 28, during the usual morning rush hour after overnight storms knocked down a series of utility poles. According to the AP, the National Weather Service suspects at least two tornadoes touched down in eastern Missouri; one near Gray Summit in Franklin County, the other in south St. Louis County. No serious injuries were reported in Missouri, but more than 30,000 homes and businesses were still without power by midmorning Monday, according to the utility Ameren Corp.

    Christian Gooden / St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

    The sidewalk along Big Bend Blvd. that anchors a utility pole came up under stress as overnight weather knocked several utility poles down along the stretch of road that runs from Wise Ave. to Clayton Rd. on Monday in Richmond Heights, Mo.

    Overnight storms in Missouri knock down utility poles

    More on storms sweeping across the U.S. here.

  • Photographs from Google Street View: art, journalism or something else altogether?

    Is that you falling off your bicycle? Is that your neighbor's van on fire, your friend brawling on the street, or your grandmother lying on the curb after a fall?

    Michael Wolf / Laif via World Press Photo

    A Series of Unfortunate Events, Google Street View.

    A Series of Unfortunate Events is a set of 'virtual' photographs taken from Google Street View, with the details of their locations removed. They earned photographer Michael Wolf an Honorable Mention at the World Press Photo awards earlier this month, sparking a fierce online debate. Did the photos belong to Wolf or to Google? Had he 'created' the pictures at all? And how do they fit in to the history of photojournalism?

    Michael Wolf / Laif via World Press Photo

    A Series of Unfortunate Events, Google Street View.

    Wolf himself, in an interview with the British Journal of Photography, expressed surprise at the award.

    "I think it's absolutely astounding," he says. "I won First Prize twice in the competition in 2005 and last year, but this honorable mention is worth hundred times more to me because it's such a conceptual leap for the World Press jury to award a prize to someone that photographs virtually. It's mind-blowing."

    "I use a tripod and mount the camera, photographing a virtual reality that I see on the screen. It's a real file that I have, I'm not taking a screenshot. I move the camera forward and backward in order to make an exact crop, and that's what makes it my picture. It doesn't belong to Google, because I'm interpreting Google; I'm appropriating Google. If you look at the history of art, there's a long history of appropriation."

    Michael Wolf / Laif via World Press Photo

    A Series of Unfortunate Events, Google Street View.

    Ruth Eichhorn, Director of Photography at GEO, was a member of the jury that awarded the prize. I asked her to respond to the controversy surrounding the pictures.

    "Photojournalism today is definitely what photojournalism was 50 years ago: A situation interpreted into a meaningful image", she said.
     
    "But something virtual has entered our visual world that we could not even have imagined 10 years ago. Hence, our world has changed in a revolutionary way. You can write about it and you can look at it on your computer, but how to document it with the means of photography? This is, in my opinion documentary photography and this work is smart and creative."
     
    "What Michael Wolf did is use photography to chronicle a significant event."

    Michael Wolf / Laif via World Press Photo

    A Series of Unfortunate Events, Google Street View.

    She continued: "The work was recognized in the category 'Contemporary Issues' and not in the category 'Daily Life'. The Contemporary Issue is that Google scans our world and we cannot hide from it. We are not part of an anonymous mass anymore, we are identifiable."
     
    "I checked Google Street View immediately when it was available for my street. [My first reaction was] Relief! I was not slipping down the steps of my front door when the Google car drove by. Do I want to be the laughing stock of my friends and neighbours? No, I don't. The poor people in Wolf's images are identifiable, at least to people who know them. Although Google claims nobody is. And who knows what is next? Live streaming? How will this effect our future?"
     
    "Pointing out upcoming problems: that is also what journalism is about."

    Michael Wolf / Laif via World Press Photo

    A Series of Unfortunate Events, Google Street View.

    You can read further debate about the photographs at dvafoto here and here, and at greg.org here. Please tell us what you think in the comments section below.

     

  • Bolivian road crumbles after heavy rain triggers landslide

    David Mercado / Reuters

    People walk on a destroyed road after a landslide in the Kupini and Valle de las Flores districts in La Paz, Bolivia, on Monday, Feb. 28. Heavy rains triggered landslides in the area on Sunday, leaving two people dead, dozens injured and destroying hundreds of houses.

    AP reports residents began evacuating late Saturday when a hill, saturated after prolonged rains, began sliding and cracks appeared in streets and homes around La Paz.

    "My neighbors were running around and told me to get out," said Maria Elena Siles, the mother of three adolescent children. "I looked out the window and there were no more homes to the left or the right of mine."

    Siles was able to flee before the hill collapsed entirely early Sunday.

    By day, amid a persistent drizzle, some residents scrambled over the unstable terrain to try to rescue furniture and other possessions from the muck.

    Read the rest of the story here.

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    Residents began evacuating late Saturday when the hill, saturated after prolonged rains, began sliding and cracks appeared in streets and home.

    David Mercado / Reuters

    A view of cementery after a landslide in the Kupini and Valle de las Flores districts in La Paz February 28.

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    A firefighter recovers belongings in the southern Valle de Las Flores area, in La Paz, on February 28.

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    General view of the southern Valle de Las Flores area, in La Paz, on February 28. following landslides caused by heavy rains affecting the region. Over 4.000 people were evacuated and some 400 houses have been devastated by the landslides in the "biggest disaster" in the Bolivian capital according to authorities.

    See more of the latest weather images from around the world here.

  • Scenes from 'Free Libya'

    Large swathes of eastern Libya are now under rebel control, as well as several towns in the west.

    Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images

    A young boy holds a toy gun while touring a destroyed army barracks with his father and siblings in Benghazi on Feb. 28.

    In the opposition stronghold of Benghazi, politicians have set up their first leadership council in a step that could lead to an alternative to the regime. NBC's Richard Engel is reporting from there.

    Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images

    A man stands next to the remains of a looted weapons depot at a destroyed army barrack in the eastern city of Benghazi on Feb. 28.

    Rebels are also holding the city of Zawiya, only 30 miles west of Tripoli.

    Ben Curtis / AP

    An armed resident gestures a victory sign in the main square in Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, on Feb. 27. Hundreds of armed anti-government forces backed by military defectors in Zawiya, the city closest to the capital Tripoli, prepared Sunday to repel an expected offensive by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi who are surrounding the city

    John Moore / Getty Images

    A tribal rebel fires a rocket propelled grenade from a militia post on Feb. 27 in Ajdabiya, Libya. Rebel militia there whipped into a frenzy after rumors that government troops loyal to President Moammar Gadhafi were preparing an attack.

    Click here to watch the latest report from NBC News reporter Jim Maceda in Tripoli.

  • China's slowing population growth prompts questions about one-child policy

    China's population grew to 1.34 billion people last year, the National Bureau of Statistics announced Monday, marking a modest jump for a massive population and leading experts to suggest China may relax its generation-old one-child policy.

    Andy Wong / AP

    A baby sits in a carriage while a woman buys vegetables at a stall near a residential building in Beijing, China on Feb. 28.

    The figure of 1.3410 billion, which is preliminary and based on a sample survey, shows China added about 6.3 million people last year, up from 1.3347 billion at the end of 2009.

    Since 1979, the government has limited families in cities to one child and rural parents to two to control its population.

    "China's population now is mainly growing because people are living longer, not because people are having lots of babies," said Cai Yong, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert on China's population.

    Andy Wong / AP

    An elderly woman checks a receipt next to the groceries she bought outside a shop in Beijing, China on Feb. 27.

    China's population growth has been contracting since 1987 and the U.S. Census Bureau has projected it will peak at slightly less than 1.4 billion in 2026, with India overtaking China as the world's most populous nation in 2025.

    Read the full story.

  • Farewell to Frank Buckles, last surviving U.S. World War I veteran

    Left: courtesy David DeJonge. Right: Karen Bleier / AFP - Getty Images file

    Frank Buckles, who was the last surviving US World War I veteran. The photo on the left was taken in 1917, and the photo on the right was taken on June 18, 2008 when Buckles, then 107, was honored by members of Congress and veterans on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

    Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110.

    Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died peacefully of natural causes early Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. Buckles turned 110 on Feb. 1 and had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of World War I in Washington, D.C.

    Buckles lied about his age to join the army at age 16. The Missouri native was among nearly 5 million Americans who served in World War I in 1917 and 1918.

    "I knew there'd be only one (survivor) someday. I didn't think it would be me," he was quoted as saying in recent years. Continue reading.

    NBC's Bob Faw interviewed Frank Buckles in 2007, when he was 106 years old.

    You can read more about Buckles' extraordinary life at the website for Pershing's Last Patriot, a documentary film slated for release this year.

    The Veterans' History Project has fascinating archive material on Buckles' service, including historical photographs, audio and video interviews and his enlistment record from August 14th, 1917.

  • Chinese authorities curb 'Jasmine rallies' in Shanghai and Beijing

    For the second Sunday in a row, an unspecified number of mass gatherings were anonymously called across China to protest against the government and some of its policies. The response of the authorities was swift.

    Carlos Barria / Reuters

    Police arrest a man after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest, organised through the internet, in front of the Peace Cinema in downtown Shanghai, China on Feb. 27. An online call for anti-government protests across China on Sunday instead brought an emphatic show of force by police determined to deter any buds of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East. Lines of police checked passers-by and warned away foreign photojournalists in downtown Beijing and Shanghai after a U.S.-based Chinese website spread calls for Chinese people to emulate the "Jasmine Revolution" sweeping the Middle East and stage gatherings in support of democratic change.

    Carlos Barria / Reuters

    Police arrest two men after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest, organised through the internet, in front of the Peace Cinema in downtown Shanghai on Feb. 27.

    Click here for an eyewitness report by Adrienne Mong of NBC News, who attended a rally in Beijing.

    Police were out in force in Beijing to curb anti-government "Jasmine Rallies."

     

  • Oscar red carpet trends: shimmery, reds and plums

    Take a look at some of the trends spotted on the 2011 Oscars red carpet.

    Getty Images (3), Reuters, EPA (2)

    (From left to right) Hilary Swank, Mandy Moore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Williams, Halle Berry and Celine Dion arrive for the 83rd annual Academy Awards.

    Getty Images, Reuters, EPA

    (From left to right) Actress Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Hudson and Anne Hathaway arrive for the 83rd annual Academy Awards.

    AP (2), EPA, AFP - Getty Images

    (From left to right) Actress Marisa Tomei, Natalie Portman, Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson arrive on the red carpet for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California.

  • Torsten Blackwood / AFP - Getty Images

    Cattle graze in a flooded field discoloured by mineral contamination on the outskirts of Christchurch on Feb. 27, after a 6.3 earthquake devastated New Zealand's second largest city and surrounding towns on Feb. 22. The quake caused more damage than the 7.1 magnitude quake that hit the city on Sept. 4, and has killed at least 146 people.

    Cattle graze in a contaminated field after New Zealand earthquake

  • NASA provides detailed pictures of Discovery's survey maneuver

    I remember being in middle school and our teachers wheeling a TV into our classroom so we could watch the beautiful shuttle launches that always sent a little twinge of national pride through me. I remember that cold day in January when I was home on a snow day and saw the Challenger fall out of the sky. I remember being called into work the day before my birthday when the Columbia met the same fate. I can't imagine not having this part of the space program in the background of my life. What are your thoughts on shuttle flights drawing to a close? Do you have any specific memories of the shuttle program? You can read more on Discovery's mission here.

    NASA TV via EPA

    This view of the aft portion of the space shuttle Discovery was provided by an Expedition 26 crew member during a survey of the approaching STS-133 vehicle prior to docking with the International Space Station. As part of the survey and part of every mission's activities, Discovery performed a back-flip for the rendezvous pitch maneuver (RPM) The 'Discovery' with its crew of six veteran astronauts blasted off on Feb. 24 from the Kennedy Space Center on its final mission - an 11-day mission that includes docking with the International Space Station - bringing the celebrated space shuttle fleet closer to its end.

    NASA TV via EPA

    This close-up view of the nose of space shuttle Discovery was provided by an Expedition 26 crew member during a survey of the approaching STS-133 vehicle prior to docking with the International Space Station.

    NASA TV via EPA

    This view of the nose, the forward underside and crew cabin of the space shuttle Discovery was provided by an Expedition 26 crew member during a survey of the approaching STS-133 vehicle prior to docking with the International Space Station.

    NASA TV / EPA

    A partial view of the port wing of the space shuttle Discovery was provided by an Expedition 26 crew member during a survey of the approaching STS-133 vehicle prior to docking with the International Space Station.

     

  • Anish Kapoor's sculptures offer reflection in London's Hyde Park

    While most of Anish Kapoor's permanent installations are abroad, his sculpture entitled "Cloud Gate" is located in Chicago's Millennium Park.

    Luke MacGregor / Reuters

    People are reflected in Anish Kapoor's sculpture "C-Curve 2007" in Hyde Park in London, Feb. 27.

    Luke MacGregor / Reuters

    An Egyptian goose attacks its reflection in Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Sky Mirror 2006", in Hyde Park in London, Feb. 27.


    Luke MacGregor / Reuters

    A woman is reflected in Anish Kapoor's sculpture "C-Curve 2007" in Hyde Park in London, Feb. 27.

    Luke MacGregor / Reuters

    People are reflected in Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Sky Mirror 2006" in Hyde Park in London, Feb. 27.

     

  • A. Majeed / AFP - Getty Images

    Pakistani police officials and firefighters gather beside flames which erupted from the wreckage of NATO oil tankers following an unexploded timed device blast at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on Feb 26. Four NATO tankers gutted by a series of blasts on Feb. 25 caught fire again when an unexploded timed device went off, wounding two people in northwestern Pakistan, police said. More than two dozen militants had struck a terminal on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar on Feb. 25 and planted devices on 12 out of 18 parked tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.

    Low pay, big risks for fuel haulers in Afghan war

    See a full slideshow and read more about the dangers that fuel haulers face here.

  • Peter Muhly / AFP - Getty Images

    An election worker re-counts ballots as ballot boxes are opened and counting begins for the Irish General Election at the Theater Royal count centre in Castlebar, Ireland, Feb. 26. Ireland's ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in elections amid public anger over the economic crisis and an EU-IMF bailout, exit polls said today, with the opposition set to take power.

    Election workers count and re-count ballots in Ireland

    I hope that more than one person is assigned to count the ballots that sit on the table behind this gentleman. If not, that's a heck of a lot of counting. Read more about the Irish elections here.

  • Thousands of foreigners look to leave Libya amid unrest

    See more images of the unrest in Libya here.

    John Moore / Getty Images

    Stranded Bangladeshi workers walk along the beach at the port of Benghazi after failing to get on an evacuation ship on Feb. 26 in Benghazi, Libya. Thousands of foreign laborers remain in Libya, stranded for days and unable to get transport out of the country. Fighting has continued around the capitol Tripoli still controlled by Gaddafi forces. The UN who is considering sanctions against Libya over its violent attempts to put down an uprising, estimates more than 1,000 people have died in the 10-day-old revolt.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    An Egyptian refugee enters a bus from the window at a refugee camp after crossing into Tunisia to flee the violence in Libya near the border crossing of Ras Jdir, Feb. 26. Thousands of Egyptian refugees scrambled to leave a refugee camp set up by the Tunisian army, as they waited to be transferred to the nearby airport to fly back home.

    Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters

    An Egyptian trying to leave Libya looks through the blankets of a makeshift shelter at Tripoli's airport Feb. 26.

    Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters

    A crowd of people trying to leave Libya fills the departure hall at Tripoli's airport Feb. 26.

    Ciro Fusco / EPA

    A man with an Egyptian passport carries his bleongings as thousands of Libyan, Egyptian, Tunisian and Indian refugees escape the forces of Muammar Gaddafi at Tas Jedir, Libya, on the border with Tunisia, Feb. 26. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), some 16,000 people had fled over the Libyan border into Tunisia in recent days, as Libyan authorities launched a bloody crackdown on protests against the rule of Muammar Gadhafi.

    Zohra Bensemra / Reuters

    Egyptians rush to take buses at the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir, after fleeing unrest in Libya, Feb. 26. People in Tunisia and Egypt are driving to the border to help those arriving from Libya, with many hosting strangers in their homes, international aid groups said on Friday. More than 30,000 people have streamed across land borders in response to violence in Libya, mainly Tunisians and Egyptians who had been working in the North African country, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

    Gregorio Borgia / AP

    Chinese citizens wait aboard the "Palermo Grimaldi" ferry at the harbor in Valletta, Malta, Saturday, Feb. 26, after being evacuated from Benghazi, Libya. Tens of thousands of foreigners have been fleeing Libya this week. Turkish and Chinese workers climbed aboard ships by the thousands, Europeans mostly boarded evacuation flights and North Africans have been heading to Libya's borders with Egypt and Tunisia in overcrowded vans.

     

  • Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

    Shocking mug shots reveal the toll of drug addiction

    Msnbc.com contributor Linda Carroll writes:
    With disturbing before and after photos of drug users’ faces, a new anti-drug campaign may succeed where others have failed, grabbing teens’ attentions by appealing to their vanity.

    The pairs of mug shots, which graphically display the damage drugs can do to the face, were collected by the sheriff’s office in Multnomah County, Ore.

    Faces that were normal — even attractive — in initial photos, shot when addicts were first arrested, metamorphose over years, and sometimes just months, into gaunt, pitted, even toothless wrecks.

    Click here to see all the photos and read the full story.

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