Sunday, November 22, 2009

THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF LIFE

I can do it blindfolded
A participant in the annual Rubik's Cube Hungarian Open Championships solves nine 3-by-3 cubes blindfolded after memorizing all of them, in Budapest on Oct. 18, 2009.

Housing crisis
Algerian protesters stand in front of their homes during clashes in the Algiers suburb of Diar Eshams on Oct. 20. Residents threw stones and Molotov cocktails at riot police in protests over housing conditions.

Gang wars
A firefighter sprays water on a bus after it was attacked by alleged drug gang members at the Jacarezinho slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Oct. 17. A police crackdown and fighting between rival gangs has left more than 30 people dead. Three police officers were killed when gangs used high-caliber weapons to shoot down a police helicopter.





Chased by a storm
Storm watchers run from the deck at a hotel on Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas as a large wave whipped up by Hurricane Rick overtakes their perch on Oct. 19. Rick weakened to a tropical storm as it passed the Baja California peninsula and did not cause widespread flooding or destruction in the Cabo San Lucas resort area.

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