TIME.com Pictures of the Week January 26

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DOUGLAS ENGLE/AP		January 26 - February 1 Our picks of the week's best pictures Participants sit on the lawn and a balloon is filled with hot air as night falls on the inaugural event of the World Social Forum in a march in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The five-day Social Forum of some 40,000 participants is a shadow event to the World Economic Forum that this year brings powerful politicians and businessmen from around the world to New York City. Thursday, January 31, 2002)

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