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The oiltanker Server went down in the storm outside Fedje on the west coast of Norway january the 13th 2007. Almost half of the seabird population in the area died from oil pollution. This seagull, covered in oil, died on the island Hernar a few…

Saeed Ghanbari (25) receives 80 lashes in public view in the Qazvin
province, 91 Miles (165 Km) west of Tehran, Iran on August 21, 2007.
Ghanbari was convicted of consuming alcohol and having sex outside of marriage. Ghanbari was lashed at a central…

Foreclosed - Kim Martinelli looks over a payoff demand statement for the house mortgage which arrived today, while her husband Stephen Martinelli looks through the mail at their home in Lawrence. The family was in the process of losing their house…

** Waiting **Women wait for the caskets of Francesco Giorgi, Sebastiano Strangio and Marco Marmo prior to their funeral service in the church of San Luca, South Italy, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. All were killed in Germany in a mafia slaying that left…

The New Normal

Cpl. Eric Morante isn't alone in therapy at the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, but he misses his Marines. Eric's at the stage where he's adapting to the new normal, his therapist says. A hero on the battlefield, he works with…

DENMARK IRAQI REFUGEES TRY REACHING SWEDEN
Two Danish border police stop a car with refugees, one who doesn't even wake up, close to the German border in Padborg, Denmark on March 22, 2007. The man with the cigarette on the right hand side of the…

Waiting - Evan Burgoon, 5, watches his father Lt Cmdr. Ian Burgoon of the VFA 211 land at the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, VA, Tuesday, December 18, 2007. The squadrons returned home to Hampton Roads following a six-month deployment…

Caption:Taurus Bell, 8, laces up his pads before football practice at Marconi Park in the shadow downtown Birmingham.

Caption: Amanda Cooper, 11, plays with her stuffed rabbit Savanah on her bed. She has lived with her mother in this Birmingham shelter for homeless women and children for four months.

Statement of Purpose: Birmingham's ranking of the nation's sixth most dangerous city inspired us to find the faces and stories of children living behind the statistics. These columns are a peek inside the lives of the city's youth.

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