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The week in 10 pics

From Easter Sunday to Opening Day, a look at the week's most enduring images SLIDE SHOW

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  • No, this isn't a scene still from Jean Luc Godard's "Weekend." On Sunday, a 75-vehicle pileup on Interstate 77 near the Virginia-North Carolina border left three people dead and 20 injured, choking traffic for 8 miles.
    AP/Virginia State Police, Sgt. Mike Conroy

  • Play ball! A United States flag is unfurled before the opening day game between the Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins in Washington Monday.
    AP/J. David Ake

  • Kim Jong-un, who may or may not be planning an attack on Austin, TX, among other targets, delivers a speech during a plenary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang Sunday. The North Korean leader's wild new threats this week have pushed the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.
    AP/KCNA via KNS

  • Louisville guard Kevin Ware is tended to by trainers after braking his leg in stomach-churning fashion Sunday during the NCAA tournament. Fortunately, Ware has been released from the hospital and is expected to join his teammates for the Final Four in Atlanta.
    AP/Michael Conroy

  • Flowers left by a visitor lie atop the bronze plaque set in the sidewalk in front of Roger Ebert's boyhood home in Urbana, Ill. Ebert, whose effusive, unpretentious reviews inspired a generation of movie lovers and critics alike, succumbed to his battle with cancer Thursday.
    AP/David Mercer

  • A worker catches a live chicken at a poultry market in Shanghai, China Friday. Government officials slaughtered in excess of 20,000 birds to help contain an outbreak of avian flu, which has already claimed at least six lives.
    Associated Press

  • Rutgers President Robert Barchi announces Friday that he has accepted the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti. Pernetti had declined to dismiss basketball coach Mike Rice after video of him physically abusing his players first surfaced.
    AP/Mel Evans

  • Now that's how you celebrate Easter. Pope Francis leads an open-air mass before a crowd packed with pilgrims, tourists and Romans in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday.
    AP/Alessandra Tarantino

  • Workers scrub their boots Monday in Mayflower, Arkansas, where a ruptured ExxonMobil pipeline spilled thousands of barrels of crude oil. The spill has reignited debate over safe practices for oil transportation and could imperil plans to construct the Keystone XL pipeline.
    Reuters/Suzi Parker

  • Michael Goodwin, Senior Partner for HTC, displays an HTC First cell phone with the new Facebook interface. On Thursday, the social network unveiled a new operating system-app hybrid for Android.
    AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez

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Jacob Sugarman is Salon's cover editor and the editor of Open Salon. You can follow him on twitter @jakesugarman. More Jacob Sugarman.

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  • This photo. President Barack Obama has a laugh during the unveiling of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Tx., Thursday. Former first lady Barbara Bush, who candidly admitted this week we've had enough Bushes in the White House, is unamused.
    Reuters/Jason Reed

  • Rescue workers converge Wednesday in Savar, Bangladesh, where the collapse of a garment building killed more than 300. Factory owners had ignored police orders to vacate the work site the day before.
    AP/A.M. Ahad

  • Police gather Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to honor campus officer Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed in a shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last week.
    AP/Elise Amendola

  • Police tape closes the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy in Libya Tuesday. The explosion wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage to Tripoli's upscale al-Andalus neighborhood.
    AP/Abdul Majeed Forjani

  • Protestors rage outside the residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday following the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and tortured before being abandoned in a locked room for two days.
    AP/Manish Swarup

  • Clarksville, Mo., residents sit in a life boat Monday after a Mississippi River flooding, the 13th worst on record.
    AP/Jeff Roberson

  • Workers pause Wednesday for a memorial service at the site of the West, Tx., fertilizer plant explosion, which killed 14 people and left a crater more than 90 feet wide.
    AP/The San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel

  • Aerial footage of the devastation following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province last Saturday. At least 180 people were killed and as many as 11,000 injured in the quake.
    AP/Liu Yinghua

  • On Wednesday, Hazmat-suited federal authorities search a martial arts studio in Tupelo, Miss., once operated by Everett Dutschke, the newest lead in the increasingly twisty ricin case. Last week, President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker, R.-Miss., and a Mississippi judge were each sent letters laced with the deadly poison.
    AP/Rogelio V. Solis

  • The lighting of Freedom Hall at the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday is celebrated with (what else but) red, white and blue fireworks.
    AP/David J. Phillip

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