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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Prisoners are held with the motorcycles, bicycles and spare parts.
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  • A cyclist on a 19th century style cycle pedals ahead of a thunderstorm.
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  • A cicada is vulnerable after shedding it's larval skin.  Cicadas emerge from underground as nymphs, which is a juvenile stage in their life cycle, and molt to grow into a larger protective exoskeleton.
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  • A silver-painted but nude, tuba-playing unicyclist rides through the desert at Burning Man Festival. Balancing her sousaphone, she was like a mirage and disappeared into a crowd in the Black Rock Playa. The counter-culture celebration is held annually in Nevada and attracts thousands of costumed participants to party. Many performance artists plan unique and strange costumes that are creative and whimsical. There are no spectators, only participants.
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  • Burning Man statue is erected  for the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Participants gather and wheel along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • Fire and glowing smoke are part of the festivities at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience in the Black Rock Desert on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • A wildflower blooms in the Black Rock Desert as California costume designer dons a neon costume and pink scarf to brave a sandstorm at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Beyond, Uncle Sam wheels along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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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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  • The first Wal-Mart in China opened in Shenzhen, the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. Cosmetics are a major business in China and women in the China Middle Class see this as an important part of their lifestyle. <br />
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Signs hang overhead in this store proudly announcing, “Made in China.” They sell all that a family needs or wants, and the cosmetics area is more plush than any Wal-Mart in the U.S.<br />
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Times have changed. When I was in China years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that had a photo on the wall of a female employee with a sign underneath, “Worst Employee of the Month.” They motivated workers at that time by shaming them.
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  • Fire and glowing smoke are part of the festivities at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience in the Black Rock Desert on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • There is a reason Guangzhou was the first city in China to reach first world status (2008). Everyone in Guangzhou, aside from the migrant population, is making an average of $830 a month. Money has approximately four times more buying power in China than the U.S., so that $830 equals $3320 a month in our economy. That is the same buying power of average citizens in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
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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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  • Men load a wooden plank onto a bicycle. Logging companies are one of the greatest threats to indigenous tribe of Pygmies that survive in the forest as hunters and gatherers.
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  • Vendors carry goods and wares on bicycles through muddy Congo roads.
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  • Traffic sweeps past an American chain restaurant on East Nanjing Road.
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  • Traffic in Shenzhen at night.
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  • A cyclist with his son rides down East Nanjing Road.
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  • A biker cruises tree lined Espanola Way in South Beach.
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  • Migrant workers with jobs as moving men, play on the street outside an office building.
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  • A fish out of water bicycle, one of the eclectic modes of transportation at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Beyond wheels, the wind blows dust along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation areaattracts many artists with eclectic costumes. Flags line the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • An artist with a flaming hat rides under a glowing night sky at Burning Man, at the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of the flattest places on Earth.
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  • An artist with a flaming hat rides by glowing Burning Man, at the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of the flattest places on Earth.
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  • Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area attracts costumed artists. A bicyclist pulls red wagons wheeling along the Black Rock Desert, a vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area attracts costumed artists. Many wheel along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
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  • A neon statue of Burning Man is steadied above the costumed crowd that gathered for the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada's National Conservation area.  Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience on a dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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  • A costumed Uncle Sam wheels along the vast playa, the Black Rock Desert, a salt flat, dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience. Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival is in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • Traders push goods hundreds of miles by bicycle along the trans-African highway which runs east/west in DR Congo. War lords along the way patrol through the rebel controlled gold mining region.
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  • Traders push goods hundreds of miles by bicycle along the muddy Trans-African Highway. Rain can't stop the human flood of those who push through to resupply newly minted gold mines in the Ituri. It is the main east/west highway in DR Congo.
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  • A Rapa Nui man with his girlfriend watch tourists explore the moai on Easter Island. As the numbers grow for tourism, they outnumber locals who like their quiet island life.
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  • Slows Bar BQ in Corktown across from the abandoned Central Station.
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  • Man on antique bike pedals ahead of an Indiana thunderstorm.
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  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University students in their dorm room.
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  • A dog relaxes in a motorcycle's sidecar.<br />
Kamchatka has remote village life where during the summer, locals race around in ancient former Soviet motorbikes with sidecars. It is normal to see the family dog tagging along.
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  • The Don Stewart family, dressed in period attire, ride old-fashioned bicycles dating from the late 1800's.
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  • Cover of the August, 2001 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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  • People walking in Shenzhen on a rainy night.
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  • The hands of a midwife and a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • Aborigines gathering eggs from a saltwater crocodile nest.
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  • A midwife cleans up a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • Two midwives help a woman give birth at the Dan Moser Memorial Clinic.
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  • A woman during life-threatening childbirth.
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  • A woman during life-threatening childbirth.
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