MV Rena is seen in two pieces as the stern falls off the Astrolabe Reef on Jan. 10 off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand.
The Greek container ship ran aground off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand, on Oct. 5, spilling 350 tons of oil and nearly 100 shipping containers. Since splitting in two this week, floating containers, debris and oil have been found northwest of the vessel, and more is expected to wash ashore over the next several days.
MNN’s photos of the week
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She stood me up against a tree, she took the shotgun out of my hands, and she put it to my head. She said, ‘This is the tree that I’d take my son to and blow his head off if he ever decided to be a faggot.’
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Nathan Hoskins knew from an early age that he was gay. But when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, his mother took extreme steps to convince him otherwise. Looking back on it now, he says, “I am who I’m supposed to be.”
Threats And Lies, And ‘Who I’m Supposed To Be’ : StoryCorps
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Meet the incredible smiling seal!
How an intrepid photographer crawled across the ice on his stomach to get these amazing images
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An endearing and visually engaging information graphic telling the story of how a young couple met and fell in love, part of a single-page website announcing their marriage.
While this type of website has become almost a cliché, this one is full of design and coding goodness: great color palette, typography, and writing; use of jquery slideshows, a persistent page navigation bar, and html5 elements.
Graphic: Follow the tweets of the Occupy movement
The Occupy movement began with a single tweet from Adbusters and has grown to more than 550,000 Twitter posts from around the world. Take a look to see where the hotspots are.
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