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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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  • Tourists at Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry fresco.
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  • A family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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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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  • An English teacher presents the letter F to preschool children in a classroom. They watch and mimic the gesture.
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  • A cyclist and his son ride down East Nanjing Road, the world's longest shopping precinct; it is around 6 km long, and attracts over 1 million visitors daily.
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  • A teenage girl plays piano for her family that gathers around to listen in their apartment.
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  • Kids play in a fountain in Washington Park in the Over the Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • A girl plays in a taro field while the leaves are being harvested.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • A girl burned by scalding water in agony before medical treatment.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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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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  • A boy on a swing in Easter Island's countryside.
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  • A boy, standing in a trash heap, holds a goat.
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  • Trash scavenger area on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco.
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  • Children play on the shore of Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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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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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece that is 100 years old and the workmanship places value at approximately $500,000US. Gold involves a dowry in the arranged marriage between two coffee plantation owner families in Chikmagalur, India.
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  • A bride is reflected in a mirror wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece. Gold jewelry is part of the dowry in Indian marriages.
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  • Wearing her fortune, from gold threads in her sari to a priceless heirloom headpiece, she waits to marry. The arranged marriage between two coffee plantation owning families involves a dowry of gold. Indians have more gold than USA reserve system.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp in the Ituri forest. The future for indigenous tribes is threatened by logging, mining and urbanization moving into the forest.
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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • The Nakulabye slum in Kampala.
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  • A day and boarding school in the Nakulabye neighborhood of Kampala.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • Children in a parade commemorating the opening of Parliament in 1920.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums outside Mumbai.
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  • A fountain on the newly designed Riverwalk along the Detroit River.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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  • Visitors under Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate Sculpture.
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  • Evening on the ranch, a young cowboy stands under a full moon with his trained former mustang, Paiute. Decked out with a black hat, a sheriff's badge and red cape, Tanner follows in the footsteps of his mother who trains wild horses and learned the talents of her grandfather.
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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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  • 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 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 young cowboy readies himself on his trained, former wild mustang while waiting to compete in a horse show.
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  • A pattern of light streaks across a young cowboy who competes in a horse show with his trained formerly wild mustang. Special competitions for trained wild horses draws interest in their abilities when adopted.
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  • Children help their mother unload the dishwasher in the kitchen of their home on Prince of Wales Island.
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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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  • 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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  • A transgender prostitute checks her makeup and gets dressed in a public bathroom as a curious boy watches. Talia works in downtown Quito on the streets and a hotel that caters to sex workers.
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  • A father watches his son BBoy dancing, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. Their living room floor is a perfect space to practice difficult hip hop moves.
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  • An Ecuadorian family eats breakfast together in their home in a Quito suburb. It is a tradition before family members go to school or work.
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  • A father takes to the floor of the living room in their home as he shows his son moves to try when BBoy dancing. Young, urban culture is expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance similar to hip hop.
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  • Graffiti lined tubes where families play and skateboarders show off their moves on a Sunday afternoon when people head to the parks in a Quito.
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  • A transgender prostitute checks her makeup and gets dressed in a public bathroom as a curious boy watches. Talia works in downtown Quito on the streets and a hotel that caters to sex workers.
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  • A boy resting in church.
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  • A boy getting dressed prior to a performance in Branson.
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  • A Mennonite man and his daughter look at a globe.
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  • Boys playing at the dump.
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  • A family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, schoolboys walk through the dump.
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  • Children play on with trash and people live their lives surrounded by it in the trash scavenger area on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco.
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  • Children play on the shore of Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Children play on the shore of Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Estero de Binondo stream in Chinatown area of Manila.
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  • Children catch fish in Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Children play on the shore of Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • A family wades in Manila Bay with their dog through pollution from household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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  • Plastic collectors in the Philippines.
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  • Plastic collectors in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • A beach covered with trash from the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • A family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer. A woman works sorting while her daughter wades through a sea of plastic under the Buriganga Bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They are part of informal plastic waste industry and set up their operation working long hours to eke out of living looking for recyclable materials.  It may appear a chaotic, tangled heap but the workers make order finding like colors and types in the waste that is in the shadows of Burigonga Bridge Road that goes over a backwater to the Buriganga River.
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  • Makeup and costumes for young girls are part of the preparation for the Beef Empire Days princess contest at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • A 10-year-old boy reflected in a mirror drives a tractor behind two harvesters working in a corn field in Kansas.
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  • Students attend a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Students attend a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Boys swim in the algae filled water of Elyse Springs.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Hairstyles are created after the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Girls attend a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A boy with a caught fish on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Children attend the Parish of Saint Peter the Fisherman.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls attend the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a calf and cows.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • First day of a primary boarding school near Komote in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • El Molo fishermen on the shore of Lake Turkana.
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  • Curious boys look at a drone while at the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Boys at the John Paul II Rehabilitation Center in the Catholic mission of Lokichar.
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  • Turkana camel herders swim in Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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