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  • A native dancer, a tourist and a dog at Ahu Tahia in modern day Easter Island.<br />
Situated near the town of Hanga Roa, the ahu sits near a canoe ramp and was restored by an archaeologist in 1974. <br />
It is perched alone on a ceremonial platform.<br />
Tahai is thought to be among the earliest ahu structures on the island dating back to 690 AD.
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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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  • Children reading books at an Sam's Club store in Shenzhen.
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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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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • Models on a cattle call fixing their make up.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye on her child.
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  • An English teacher presents the letter F to preschool children.
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  • A cyclist with his son rides down East Nanjing Road.
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  • A teenage girl plays piano for her family.
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  • Paintings by local artists in a painting village in Shenzhen.
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  • Kids posing with people in Cultural Revolution costumes at a car show.
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  • The first Wal-Mart in China is in Shenzhen, the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. This store sells all that a family needs or wants. The cosmetics area is much more plush than any Wal-Mart in the U.S. The signs that hang overhead in this store proudly announce, “Made in China.” This is very different than the best store I could find in China 17 years ago. The best store then was a government “Friendship Store” that had a photo of a female employee on the wall with a sign underneath, “Worst Employee of the Month.” The way they decided to motivate workers at that time was to shame them. Cosmetics are a major business in China and women in the China Middle Class see this as an important part of their lifestyle. Wal-Mart aims for the Comfort Class consumer earning between $5,000 and $20,000 a year.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • A girl burned by scalding water in agony before medical treatment.
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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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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 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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  • A boy resting in church.
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  • A boy getting dressed prior to a performance in Branson.
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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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  • 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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  • A family wades in Manila Bay which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.
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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 man and boy dressed in cowboy hat, jeans and button down shirts, balance while standing on top of horses at the Beef Empire Days rodeo event.
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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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  • 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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  • A Daasanach girl with a calf and cows.
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  • Curious boys look at a drone while at the Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Turkana camel herders bring camels to water on Lake Turkana outside Elyse Springs.
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  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • Children living in Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • A Daasanach girl, shows a determined face as her mother prepares her for a pairing off ceremony, where men make offers for future wives.
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  • Children play atop a truckload of dried fish in the village of Selicho.
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  • A Suri boy wearing body paint poses for tourists.
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  • A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • Young girls are dressed in their finest for a wedding celebration in a remote village. Their families are some of the industrious people who came to Kamchatka for “northern money” had to scramble when default happened, and they survived with no state money.  Highly valued Russian caviar was their only resource between 1995 and 2005.
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  • Tetanus vaccinations in the village of Dambai at a volunteer clinic.
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  • After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the Buriganga River, a woman spreads them out to dry to be sold to a recycler. Most of the recycling is done on public river banks and landings or under bridges. The plastic that is saved for recycling in this process is better than anything that can be automated in the USA. But the overburden - the unwanted plastic trash - that comes to this riverbank, invariably ends up in the Buringanga River watershed and eventually in the ocean.
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  • This is part of a "trunk or treat" event in Muleshoe Texas. Rural children come to a parking lot in downtown Muleshoe to get candy that is given out of the backs of farmer's trucks. One farmer got inventive and cut a number of 50 gallon drums into "cattle cars" and pulled the children around this town that is semi-deserted because the water has been mined out below them for agriculture. There are six great aquifers in the world… ours in North America is the Ogallala aquifer and it provides 40 percent of our beef and 20 percent of our food in USA. The fear in the northern part of the aquifer is that the water will be taken away by thirsty southern states. The problem in the southern end of the aquifer is that Texas has 88,000 (basically unregulated) wells that are taking so much of the aquifer that it has become a tragedy of the commons that creates issues beyond Muleshoe. Subdivisions in New Mexico are tapped out of water from Texas agriculture because the aquifer doesn’t adhere to state boundaries.
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  • Three Mennonite kids are the last to get off the bus in Lazbuddie, Texas.<br />
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Superintendent Joanna also has to drive the school bus for Lazbuddie schools but primarily is trying to figure out how to keep the school and community alive as they run out of water. When she started they had about 100 students now they have over 200 primarily from luring other communities children by offering an excellent robotics program and offering daycare. She had 90 days of water left for 16 families (teachers are housed at the school complex). The well got down to 15 feet of standing water. She got federal funds for a $360K well but who knows how long that will last. There are 88,000 wells around her in the TX panhandle that are poorly regulated and the water mining is affecting neighboring communities.
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  • Children learn about at an ancient skull on a tour of the museum.
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  • A Rapanui impresario takes a break at home while waiting for tourists to arrive at his restaurant.
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  • A boy on a swing in Easter Island's countryside.
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  • A girl removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer.
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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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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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  • A bride wearing gold threads in her sari and a priceless headpiece.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Street scene of Kireka outside Kampala.
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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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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • A family detained in Barcelona because family member is suspected terrorist.
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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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  • 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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  • The town of Kamikatsu keeps the primarily elderly population employed.
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  • A talking robot helps a 69-year-old woman shop.
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  • Russian parents with their two children.
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  • A girl and ducks on a small taro farm on Maui.
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  • Bread and other baked goods at the Findlay Public Market.
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  • Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center, the first major U.S. museum designed by a woman, illuminates art in motion.
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  • A wedding party takes photos outside the historic Fox Theatre on Woodward Avenue.
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  • Detroit Tigers baseball fan line up outside Comerica Park before a game.
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