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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • Cannery workers take a break on the dock during the busiest part of the salmon season in Petersburg on Mitkof Island.  Hundreds of seasonal employees--some students trying to earn some quick money.<br />
Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy.
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  • A young girl wears a hair net at lunchtime outside a family take-out restaurant in the small fishing village of Petersburg. Located on Mitkof Island, the community attracted immigrants of Scandinavian origin to the Native Alaskan Tlingit settlement in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • Jugs of water are bailed out from a skiff during games and competition at a logging show. The communities surrounding Thorne Bay come together for the summer event on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Cannery workers suit up in gloves, masks, hairnets and protective suits to clean seafood. Petersburg, a fishing village in Southeast Alaska, is known for fishing fleets netting large catch for processing.
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  • Tourists are wed on Mendenhall Glacier in the Tongass National Forest. He marks the spot of their ceremony with a GPS while behind them a guide leads hikers up an icy trail. She blissfully basks in the sun as they wait for their helicopter return back to Juneau.
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  • Crew members from a family fishing operation land approximately 1,000 Coho salmon in the boat from a purse seine in waters near Craig, Alaska.<br />
Alaska’s fisheries are some of the richest in the world, with fishermen harvesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of salmon, crab, herring, halibut, pollock, and groundfish every year. However, overfishing, exploitation, and poor fisheries management in the ‘40s and ‘50s took a heavy toll on the industry. The state adopted drastic measures that saved the fishing industry from collapse. Tough times again hit the fishermen in the 1970s as the number of boats grew and increasingly efficient gear depleted catch levels to record lows.<br />
Permit systems and reserves helped the commercial industry recover in the late ‘70s—a trend that has continued to the present because of cooperation between scientists and fishermen.<br />
Fishermen and loggers rank in the top two spots for most dangerous jobs. Both are common lines of work for people in the Alaskan outdoors. Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking fatal occupational injuries in 1980, there were 4,547 fatal work injuries in 2010, and fatality rates of some occupations remain alarmingly high.
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  • Workers unload and weigh fish on the dock of a cannery. Petersburg port has the largest home-based halibut fleet in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Loggers compete climbing a 65-foot pole during a logging show that attracts locals to show their skills on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Hatchet in hand, a man steadies his grasp on the handle during a target competition-one of many challenges at a traditional logging show. The Southeast Alaska region's roots are deep in the heyday of a vibrant logging industry when locals come together for fun competing with saws and hatchets, pole climbing and wheel barrow races.
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  • Tourists are drawn to the beauty of Alaska and its glaciers, and some come for the ultimate and most unlikely experience—donning crampons for their wedding on ice.<br />
If the weather cooperates, couples can arrange for a limousine pickup from a cruise ship to the airport for a helicopter flight onto a glacier. They had a traditional ceremony with tuxedo and white wedding dress and extra touches including wedding cake, music, and flowers.<br />
The groom pops the cork on a bottle of champagne provided by the planner who married this couple on the Mendenhall Glacier.
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  • Susanne from Shenzen is plans to marry her boyfriend in Hong Kong. They take a cab to the knock-off mall to get clothes made for the ceremony. Statistics show that many western men marry Chinese women, but the government promoted a soap opera featuring the opposite situation called “Foreign Babes in Beijing,” featuring western women falling for Chinese men.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.<br />
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • The Logger of the Year winner hugs his girlfriend in red boots to celebrate after he won in the annual logging show held in Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island. The Southeast Alaskan competition is the “real thing”—not a tourist show—where loggers, former loggers, and “wannabe” loggers compete, climbing trees and sawing timber.
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  • Farmhands that care for the horses take a break from chores with games and refreshments. The workers become close like family and get together for informal parties and pot luck dinners where they bring dishes from their home countries Columbia, Lithuania, Australia, Mexico, Ireland and the U.S.
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  • An Australian man and his Chinese fiance ride in a taxi on their way to purchase their wedding clothes. Susanne is marrying her boyfriend in Hong Kong next week and they went to the knock-off mall to get clothes made for the wedding.
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  • Researchers who study brown bears navigate by boat through driving rain on the Unuk River in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. This is the "dry season," and the region receives more than two hundred inches of rain each year.<br />
Brown bears or grizzlies are prevalent in the Tongass, so there is interest in study of their behavior and range. A decline in the lower 48 states has heightened management concern and an increased interest in habitat-related studies in Alaska. <br />
Results show brown bears avoid clearcuts and are more often found in riparian old growth, wetland, and alpine/subalpine habitat because of more nutritious foraging and better cover.<br />
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The Unuk Study Area is part of Misty Fiords National Monument and classified as wilderness. Because of this, no helicopters are allowed, making primary access by boat since no roads exist. Located 100 km northeast of Ketchikan, the Unuk River, which means “Dream River” in the native Tlingit language, flows from the Canadian border to salt water. Although much of the main river channel is too deep and glacial for bears to fish, the river contains several clear tributaries with spawning salmon.
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  • Scientists climb on gigantic stumps of trees cut years ago while they hiking through surveying what is left of the old growth forest. Tongass National Forest encompasses 16.8 million acres and is the largest temperate rain forest on the planet. The 600 to 800 year old trees lin these forests forests contribute irreplaceable biological diversity.
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  • Researchers in a field of eriphorum.
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  • Halibut loaded onto the dock.
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  • A couple watches competitors and wait for their turn to use the "misery whip, " a two person cutting saw that typically has a 4-12 foot blade and was used to fell tall Sitka spruce, hemlock and cedar trees in the region's logging heyday. Competition is fierce as loggers are timed to see who can cut through a log the fastest. The logging show on Prince of Wales island is not a tourist event, but a chance for locals to come together and show off their skills.
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  • A diver surfaces off the coast of Komodo Island in Indonesia.
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  • A retired man holding newborn kittens.
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  • The assistant post mistress at a post office.
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  • A man and dog on the deck of their float house.
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  • Aquatic animals in seaweed.
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  • A man holds a yellow eye fish he caught off of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Father and son fish off of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Men and a boy fishing on Thorne Bay.
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  • Fisherman unloads halibut onto ice at the dock.
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  • Logging and road building in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • A pilot boards a float plane, a common mode of travel in Alaska.
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  • A logger climbing a tree trunk during a logging show competition.
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  • Cheese making press at alm in the Tyrol.
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  • Two boys climb a grass covered hill in the Dolomites.
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  • A lamb being held still.
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  • Student gets money from an ATM machine ata bank.
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  • Students making costumes for a party.
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  • Students dye their hair for a party.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • Music practice in the Ladino community of La Valle.
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  • A baker decorates a cookie with icing.
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  • Carnival mask made of wood.
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  • A woman works on a lace pattern in her home.
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  • A woman holding a spider.
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  • A boa constrictor at a reptile show.
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  • An iguana at a reptile show.
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  • A young girl carefully carries a baby lamb while helping her grandmother care for their sheep in a rural area in the mountains of Ecuador.
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  • A man takes digital photographs of statues in an art gallery.
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  • A woman working on a laptop.
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  • Tourists photograph lions from a jeep while on safari.
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  • Tourists on safari.
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  • A bonobo at a language research center.
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  • A bonobo with nail clippers at a language research center.
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  • A bonobo at a language research center.
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  • An all terrain vehicle rider covered in mud in St. Joe State Park.
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  • A man and his dog ride to check on the farm.
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  • A bar attracts crowds of tourists from the cruise ships.
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  • Richard Carstensen and Ken Leghorn Keynon Fields peer at data on their computers
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  • A photographer poses with an imitation polar bear.
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  • A man and boy with caught silver salmon fish on Thorne Bay.
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  • Boy riding in back of car.
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  • A young boy fishes in Anan Creek.
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  • Cheese making at alm in the Tyrol.
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  • Cheese making at alm in the Tyrol.
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  • Two boys help their uncle on a farm in the Dolomites.
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  • A Ladino woman walks to a steep hayfield on her farm.
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  • Young girls, dressed in traditional Swiss clothes, feed goats.
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  • A girl and ducks on a small taro farm on Maui.
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  • Students at a party.
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  • Students dress up for a party.
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  • Student checks box for mail.
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  • Student friends share cigarettes and talk.
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  • Students hang out near college campus.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • Bakers create heart-shaped cookies.
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  • An ice climber climbing an ice candle in Triglavski National Park.
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  • An ice climber climbing an ice candle in Triglavski National Park.
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  • An iguana peaks out of a woman's hair.
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  • A poisonous spider for sale at a reptile show.
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  • Tourists on safari.
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  • Tourists on safari.
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  • Bonobo ape looking at images at a language research center.
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  • A photographer at a Mbuti hunting camp.
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  • Elysee, owner and designer of Zemo Elysee fashion shop with models.<br />
he number of women entrepreneurs in China is growing. About three in ten businesses in China are women owned and, according to the All-China Women’s Federation, women account for one-quarter of total China-based entrepreneurs.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye through the window where a musician plays a guitar to a yawning child.
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  • A model watches intently in a small mirror while having her hair styled before a fashion show.
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  • Onlookers watch as a model is reflected in a window at an interview for a fashion show.
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  • Models wait to be interviewed for a fashion show. Beijing has become a modern day fashion capital of the country.
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  • Subdued atmosphere prevails at a crowded, formal cocktail party celebration at an Evian spa in Shanghai.
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  • An English teacher presents the letter F to preschool children in a classroom. They watch and mimic the gesture.
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  • A worker passes through a storage area where a room full of mannequins wait to display clothing.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Tourists are invited on stage to dance with a Rapa Nui dance group preforming traditional music and dance.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • Tourists invited onto the stage dance with Rapa Nui dancers paint their bodies.
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