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  • Moscow children, born with terminal-limb deficiency, in these cases the left forearm is missing, are all from two neighborhoods, were the incidence of congenitally deformed children seems to be higher than elsewhere.
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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • Russian parents with their two children.
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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • Children playing in the snow on a hillside outside their home in Sylvester.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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  • Two Sudanese children, an adult and a donkey in a desolate landscape.
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  • Children in a parade commemorating the opening of Parliament in 1920.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums outside Mumbai.
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  • Children carry canvas lanterns lit by candles in an evening passion play processional. Christian Holy Week is celebrated annual in Mendrisio with this tradition.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums congregate at their front door. These are the third largest slums in the world.  The world bank is trying to work out an arrangement where all of these squatters will get about twice the space they have now in new buildings, but it is complicated.
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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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  • Children learn about at an ancient skull on a tour of the Sebastian Englert museum named for a German priest who came to the island in 1935 and spent his life studying the Rapa Nui culture.
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  • Kitty gentles and trains wild horses on her ranch in the high desert where the wild mustang trainer rides rides on trails with her children.
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  • Children wearing sunglasses and designer outfits prepare back stage for a charity fashion show in the exclusive, glamorous resort town of St. Moritz. The ritzy, Alpine resort town is located in the Engadine in Switzerland.
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  • Over 700 children carry hundred year old candle-lit lanterns made of canvas as they walk through the streets on Good Friday of Holy Week. The Christian celebration in Mendrisio dates back to the 17th century.
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  • A blurring of cultures as children dance in the street wearing Halloween masks in celebration of Day of the Dead. The American and Hispanic celebrations coincide involving masks and candy in the small Mexican town where families use burros and make mescal from agave plants.
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  • Children in the village of Chelete.
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  • Nyangatom children at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Kara children kick up dust during a bull jumping celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy children play with a bow and arrow. The indigenous tribe is of hunting and gathering origin in the Ituri forest.
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  • A group of Mbuti Pygmy women and children.
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  • A young Australian woman and two Aborigine children swimming.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • Children play on a trampoline outside their home in a backyard West Virginia mountain holler.
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  • Ugandan children embrace a photographer on assignment.
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  • Kara children kick up dust on their way to participate in a dance.
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  • Curious Nyangatom children check out propped up rifles in a village.
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  • A mission feeds the Suri children porridge every morning.
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  • Hamar children pack onto a donated slide at the village of Logira.
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  • Children of woman arrested by anti-poaching forces north of the park.
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  • A group of Congolese women and children in a waiting room for medical care to the Pygmy tribes people.
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  • Children play with unexploded tank shells.
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  • Aborigine children sit on a truck after arriving at a swimming hole.
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  • Children in the rural countryside outside of Harappa.
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  • A youngster gets ready for a children's beauty pageant at the Cullman County Fa ir.
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  • Children swimming in the bay at sunset.
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  • A costumed woman shushes children during the prayer at the annual June reunion of the Tatum family at Waycross, Georgia. As many as a thousand blood relatives gather for a weekend of music, food, and socializing at their homestead.
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  • Children play on swings in the town park above the marina in Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • School children.
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  • New York City children discover camping at Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey.
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  • Children swimming in the bay at sunset.
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  • Parade of children carry lanterns in an Easter passion play.
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  • Children congregate after school to play soccer in the remote village of SigSig in the Andes mountains.
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  • Children in a classroom.  Boy in foreground has spinal TB.
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  • A young child holds a hunting bow as Pygmy children in a village play outside.
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  • Sisters with Laron syndrome and their children shopping for toys at the mall.
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  • A child holds a microphone at a morning assembly at a public school surrounded by other school children and war orphans.<br />
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Half of Uganda is under the age of 15. <br />
The average African woman has nearly 4.5 children (and over 6 in four countries). One consequence of Africa’s high fertility is that a preponderance of its population is young. Twenty-seven percent of the world’s population is under age 15, but in Africa, the figure is 40 percent according to David Bloom, chairman of the department of global health and population at Harvard.
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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • Children play behind a statue in the new town of Karang Pani which supports the nearby gold mining.
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  • Excitement builds as young children gather backstage getting dressed and coiffed for a charity fashion show supporting a local hospital. Saint Moritz is renown as a glamorous resort town attracting stylish tourists.
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  • School children dressed in red uniforms play while waiting to tour the Government Palace, the Palacio de Gobierno at the Plaza de Armas. The palace is located in Peru's capital city, Lima which was founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535. After a disastrous 1746 earthquake, Spanish colonial buildings were built in the period following.
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  • Women with young children walk through the unpaved streets of a gold mining town in northeastern Congo.
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  • A Russian woman admires her newborn with her daughter.
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  • A Suri woman with a lip plate carries her baby.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Kanoa family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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  • A teenager works with miners sluicing for gold at an improvised, illegal mine.
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  • A young teenager stands on a submerged log to help miners sluice for gold in mine tailings at an improvised mine in Ghana.
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  • A child plays baseball in a yard where dyed yarn or wool is hung to dry in red bunches.
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  • Newborn baby in doctor's hands.
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  • Nurse and doctor holding a just born baby.
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  • Newborn baby and nurse attendant.
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  • Ghanaian woman with colorful umbrella walking through her village.
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  • A young cowboy sheriff with a badge, black hat, red flannel shirt and belt buckle steadies his hand on his weapon ready for action in his living room on the ranch.
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  • A young cowboy plays dead on the living room floor in a dramatic western fantasy involving knives and guns and a stuffed horse ready for a quick get-away.
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  • A man walks down the road in Tom Biggs Hollow in Letcher County, Kentucky, while his great grandchildren play nearby.<br />
Lucious Thompson joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth when he found his land disrupted from mining above them. “There’s good mining and there’s bad mining,” Mr. Thompson said. “Mountaintop removal takes the coal quick, 24 hours every day, making my streams disappear, with the blasting knocking a person out of bed and the giant ‘dozers beep-beeping all night so you cannot sleep.”<br />
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Mr. Thompson spoke with the authority of a retired underground miner. Underground miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh, deep workplaces that were far out of sight. Now, the hollow dwellers have become witnesses more than miners as a fast-moving, high-volume process uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills.<br />
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“They make monster funnels of our villages,” said Carroll Smith, judge-executive, the top elected official, here in Letcher County, the location of some of the worst flooded hollows adjoining mountaintop removal sites. “They haven’t been a real good neighbor at all.”<br />
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With underground mining, coal miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh workplaces deep in the ground and far out of sight. With mountaintop removal, a fast, high-volume process that uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills that help define the hollows, the residents have become witnesses more than miners.<br />
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New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/national/11MINE.html
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  • Young cowboys turn a ranch cattle chute into a homegrown playground on a ranch near Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. The young cow pokes learn to ride horses when they are young, and help move cattle on the ranch.
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  • Kids play in a tributary of the Omo River as their mothers do laundry.
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  • Black hat and red bandana match the checkered shirt as this young, wide-eyed cowboy sheriff fantasizes on their western ranch.
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  • A girl gives her great grandfather a hug while he peels an apple on the front porch of his home. Her brother hangs out watching as a car drives up the holler.
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  • A young daredevil bicyclist rides down a carriage road that is closed to vehicular traffic in Iroquois Park. Frederick Law Olmsted created a network of pedestrian pathways and curving roads for carriages, but might not have ever imagined this use.<br />
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Iroquois Park is known for its panoramic views and long winding roads to the top of 725-acre park in Louisville, Kentucky.  Three parks Olmstead planned in Louisville are named to honor a Native American Indian tribe—Cherokee, Shawnee and Iroquois—that once shared the dark and bloody hunting grounds of Old Kentucky.
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  • Passengers gaze out the windows of a bus in Shanghai. <br />
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This easy migration of people from city to city is still hard for me to get used to. Seventeen years ago when I was traveling between Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, they all had a ring of policemen around them checking identity papers. I was in China trying to get through those rings of security during the Tiananmen Square uprising. I remember traveling with wire service photographers and driving through those checkpoints at 90 mph and seeing the policeman jump up and down on the dais—literally hopping mad—but there was nothing they could do because they did not have guns or radios. After being absent 17 years, I made (technically) five trips to China in about a one-year period. The growth is so fast paced I could feel the energy and the stress on the street. It makes you realize that our empire is over, but you can’t really understand that without being there. Even though the NYT has multiple stories, every day, on the growth and complexity of the Chinese economy, the average American has little idea what this means other than a fear that increased Chinese fuel consumption will somehow affect what they put in the tank of their SUV. Robert Frank photographed twentieth-century America, recording our coming of age—the baby boom, the start of television, car culture, modular housing, and relative wealth distributed throughout the middle class. His photographs are of progress, technology, plenty, but also the weary faces of waitresses and elevator operators who were desperately trying to join the economic party. Those 1950s faces remind me of a line in Leslie Chang’s story about modern China: “What looks like freedom just feels like pressure.”
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  • Mother with baby born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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  • A young, western cowgirl walks to the barn with her trusty steed on wheels to watch her mother train wild horses.
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  • A blur envelopes a young parishioner who carries a candle-lit canvas lantern in a processional that celebrates Christians' Holy Week. It is a centuries-old annual Mendrisio tradition.
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  • Hairstylist discuss a young model's hairstyle for a charity event fashion show held at Badrutt’s Palace Hotel, a luxurious retreat in St. Moritz. The Swiss hotel, internationally known for its glitz and glamour, opened in 1896 and is still<br />
owned and operated by the same Badrutt family, now in their third generation. Funds were being raised to support a local hospital.
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  • A mother and daughter and other family members visit at the end of a reunion of the Caudill/Miller family at their homestead in Mud, West Virginia. The family fought Arch Coal Company in court to keep their 26 acres where they plant a garden and spend weekends. The home stood in the way of Hobet 21, a 12,000-acre, mountaintop removal mine. After a long battle in court, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a Lincoln County family was wrongly forced to sell its home to make way for the surface mine. Justices said a lower court was wrong to discount the family’s ‘sentimental or emotional interests’ in the property in favor of the economic concerns of a coal operator.”<br />
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The mining operations expanded to surround the Caudill property.
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  • Dust Buster environmental activist Mary Miller embraces her granddaugher while her grandson rides his bike near the elementary school in Sylvester.<br />
Miller helped document problems and joined a lawsuit when the community faced degradation from a coal processing plant that covered their town in soot.
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  • A Suri boy wearing body paint poses for tourists.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boy painted with clay symbols wears a grass skirt during manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen in the rain forest with freshly killed duikers which are an important part of their diet.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy woman smokes a pipe as another nurses a baby.
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  • A teenage girl with piercings sitting on a curb near a teen club.
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  • A family gulps water from an overflow tank during the monsoon.
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  • Headed to a Samoa church service with religious icons in the back of a pickup truck.
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  • Samoa church service.
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  • Local youngsters play on the beach at a youth camp.
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  • During church service, a child in its mother's arms is amused by a parishioner in the next pew.
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  • Samoa church service.
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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 teenage girl and other shoppers with empty carts are dwarfed by stacks of brightly colored boxes lining the aisles of a store.
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  • Reflection in the rear-view mirror of a teenage schoolgirl sitting behind her father in a car.
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  • A teenage girl looks at a Chinese graphic novel or "manhu" while commuting to school in a car.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl adjusts her uniform at a desk with a computer. Her portrait hangs on the wall above her.
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