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Escalators.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
A health worker rests in Gauhati, India.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Anupam Nath))

A protester sits on a street in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Dustin Chambers))

Mechanics on a racetrack in Montmelo, Spain.
(Image credit: (AP Photo, Emilio Morenatti, Pool))

A woman jumps over water on a street in Harare, Zimbabwe.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi))

People reflected in the window of an eyeglasses store in Santiago, Chile.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix))

Traffic in Mumbai.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas))

People ride escalators in Santiago, Chile.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix))

A fisherman in Gaza City.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra))

A street in Tokyo.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon))

A bird flies over a burned tract of the Amazon jungle.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino))

An air tanker drops retardant on a wildfire in Contra Costa County, California.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Noah Berger))

A plume of smoke from a wildfire in Lassen County, California.
(Image credit: (Courtesy of Katelynn Hewlett/Social Media via REUTERS)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.