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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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  • 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 young girl stands on a plastic chair roping plastic calf in a parking lot during Beef Empire Days in Garden City, Kansas. <br />
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The High Plains culture of cowboys and beef queens are is where a girl can rope a sculpture of a steer and dream of being a cowgirl out on the range.
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  • The Ahu Tautira statue looms behind a girl in a swimsuit.
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  • A teenage girl checks her cell phone commuting to school in a car.
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  • A teenage girl looks at a graphic novel while commuting to school in a car.
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  • A girl burned by scalding water in agony before medical treatment.
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  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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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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  • A girl and ducks on a small taro farm on Maui.
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  • A young girl investigates sea life at low tide on Moser Island in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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  • A girl plays in a taro field while the leaves are being harvested.
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  • A young girl holds a baseball while watching boys play in a ball field in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. In the original plan of the park, Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed with Calvert Vaux, appreciated pastoral scenery and long meadows broken only by clumps of deciduous trees. Those open views have been difficult to preserve in present day times as a demand for active recreational facilities has mounted in urban areas. The ball fields in Prospect Park were moved to the ends of the meadow, pushing the backstops to the edges to conform to Olmsted’s original plan.
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  • A girl plays with her toy horse backstage at a heavy metal rock concert held outdoors in Quito.
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  • A Chinese girl and her father at Tong Li.
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  • An Aborigine girl holding a dead duck.
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  • Bubbleds mesmerize a young girl who is bathed by her mother in a bucket filled with water hauled from town since their well has run dry.<br />
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Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families on the fringes feel it. For several years, approximately 30 families near Clovis, NM,  have no longer been able to get water from their wells. They carry water home that they need for cooking and bathing.  This two-year old has a bubble bath sharing precious water with a family of nine that requires 105 gallons a day.<br />
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County Road 5 is the canary in the coal mine for Ogallala depletion. Just across the state line from here are 88,000 wells in the Texas panhandle. Those wells use approximately 200 gallons a minute according to HPWD. When they started irrigating, the wells poured out 1000 gallons a minute.
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  • A Daasanach girl milks a cow.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl during a Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A girl during 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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  • 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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  • A girl attends a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A girl with a herd of goats to be killed during a Nyicheriesee ceremony, a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A girl scoops unfiltered water in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a calf and cows.
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  • A Daasanach girl prepares for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A Daasanach girl with a goat and kid.
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  • A Nyangatom girl tends to livestock in a thorn-fenced area.
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  • A girl chews sweet stalks of sorghum after laying out seeds to dry.
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  • A local indigenous girl inspects the nets while attending a salmon festival.
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  • A girl with a brain injury caused by falling during a mining blast.
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  • Wyoming ranch family -mother, daughter and grandfather- is out for a drive to check on their sheep.
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  • Daasanach girls prepare for the Bale ceremony, a pairing off ceremony.
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  • A young girl examines a common sunstar fish or Crossaster papposus that is exposed at low tide on Moser Island. They normally grow nine or ten arms but can have many more. They have a spiny texture and pray on other sea stars, sea urchins, snails, cucumbers and sea anemones living in the intertidal zone in Alaska's Southeast.
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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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  • Dressed in her finest party dress, a young girl is mesmerized by wedding celebration at a rare event in Kailino in Kamchatka, Russia.
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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 young girl is fearless working with a feisty colt. She adopted the wild horse that was rounded up when he was one month old.
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  • A young girl gives big hugs to a beloved, recently adopted mustang.
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  • A young girl and her adopted wild horse stand by the water that flows from Cold Creek into a water hole.
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  • On her 15th birthday, a Zapotec Indian girl in Juchitán attends communion at the Catholic church before her Quinceañera, which marks her passage from girlhood to womanhood. <br />
Dressed in her finest white dress and holding a bouquet of flowers, she kneels to light a candle.
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  • A young girl in the lobby of a modern apartment building.
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  • A teenage girl plays piano for her family.
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  • A teenage girl and her parents relaxing.
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  • A teenage girl shopping for lemons and limes with her parents.
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  • A teenage girl shopping.
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  • A baby girl is fed by her mother as other women observe.
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  • The hands of a midwife and a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • A girl plays in the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • A teenage girl shopping with her parents.
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  • A midwife cleans up a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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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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  • Heads together, two girl friends beach-comb near the water's edge investigating sea life at low tide in Southeast Alaska. <br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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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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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl adjusts her uniform.
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  • A wedding party takes photos outside the historic Fox Theatre on Woodward Avenue.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • Billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Trash scavenger area on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco.
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  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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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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  • 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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  • Laundry and stuffed animal on a clothesline in Kireka.
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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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  • A Russian woman admires her newborn with her daughter.
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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 young, western cowgirl walks to the barn with her trusty steed on wheels to watch her mother train wild horses.
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  • Donning a straw hat, a young cowgirl heads to the barn to watch the horses.
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  • A wild horse trainer relaxes with her daughter and her feet up after a long session with a difficult horse.
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  • A young cowgirl sits atop a tall, tamed and trained, former mustang at the family ranch.
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  • A man gently holds his great granddaughter in the living room of the Wyoming family ranch.
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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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  • Father and daugter kayak on still water near Moser Island which separates North and South Arms Hoonah Sound on Chichagof Island in Tongass National Forest.
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  • A common sunstar fish or Crossaster papposus is exposed at low tide in the intertidal zone on Moser Island in Southeast Alaska. The sea creature normally has nine or ten arms but like this one growing sixteen, they can have many more. They have a spiny texture and pray on other sea stars, sea urchins, snails, cucumbers and sea anemones.
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  • Father and daughter share a tender moment on their boat which is home for the family during fishing season off the coast of Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Southeast. When not the fishing for salmon, the family lives on nearby Marble Island and the children are home schooled.<br />
Alaska’s largest and most valuable fisheries target salmon, pollock, crab, herring, halibut, shrimp, sablefish, and Pacific cod.<br />
The total value of Alaska’s commercial fisheries is $1.5 billion for the fishermen, with a wholesale value of $3.6 billion. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy. Fisheries management in Alaska is based on scientific assessments and monitoring of harvested populations and is regarded as a model of successful natural resource stewardship.
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  • The pier at Fort Baker is a popular place for fishermen.
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  • Young volunteers at Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary love the animals.
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  • A nude toddler walking on a path in the woods.
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