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  • A man works on his sawed-off shot gun in his home.
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  • A view from half underwater and half above of a Rapa Nui man fishing for rudderfish in high waves on Easter Island's south coast.
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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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  • A 113-year-old, the oldest man in Japan.
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  • A man on horseback rides through downtown Hanga Roa on a busy street in the community of less than 10,000.
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  • A Rapa Nui man with his Belgian girlfriend live in a one-room house that has electricity but no indoor plumbing. The ocean is close by and Polynesians had a knack for colonizing even the most inhospitable oceanic rock.
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  • A Rapa Nui man shares a moment with his pregnant Chilean girlfriend in their modest home. Local population was reduced to 111 in 1877 from outside aggression and disease, but today they number nearly 6,000 people-still outnumbered by the 100,000 tourists who come to see the ancient statues.
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  • A Rapa Nui man fishes for rudderfish in high waves on Easter Island's south coast. Lava flows formed the rocky barrier from the three volcanos on the island.
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  • A Rapa Nui man fishes for rudderfish in high surf on Easter Island's south coast. Powerful waves blast the rocky, volcanic barrier to the island.
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  • A Ugandan man uses a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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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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  • Aerial photograph showing the city with roads built in the Black Rock Desert for Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival. The vast playa is 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  in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area.
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  • A costumed artist hangs onto plastic banners that fly in the wind along the vast playa of the Black Rock Desert. 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 , a salt flat, dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots.
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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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  • 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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  • Costumed stilts carefully plod toward festivities of Burning Man, 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 one of Earth's flattest spots.
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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 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 man in silhouette wears a traditional brimmed straw hat.
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  • A man and his dog ride to check on the farm.
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  • A man gently holds his great granddaughter in the living room of the Wyoming family ranch.
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  • A man feeds carrots to nearly tame mustangs in a Nevada subdivision. Residents in the Virginia Range are accustomed to wild horses grazing and then visiting their yards.
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  • A man washes his windshield while waiting to unload a container ship.
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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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  • A man with umbrella scurries across Bethesda Terrace in Central Park pelted by a summer rain shower.
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  • An Ecuadorian family grieves at the grave site of a man who was tragically electrocuted when fixing an antenna on the roof of his home to better watch a world soccer match.
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  • A man rides his bike underneath octopus interchange in Shanghai.
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  • A man takes digital photographs of statues in an art gallery.
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  • An Australian man wearing one shoe.
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  • A Mennonite man and his daughter look at a globe.
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  • After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the Buriganga River, a man spreads them out to dry to be sold to a recycler.
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  • After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the Buriganga River, a man spreads them out to dry to be sold to a recycler.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man adds to a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • A man walks through a cornfield to open gates on an irrigation system that uses water drawn from the Calamus River to water his crops.
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  • A Daasanach man dances his way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • An El Molo man with his daughter and catch.
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  • An El Molo man, deformed from consuming the waters of Lake Turkana, uses a makeshift crutch.
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  • A man grinds firewood in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • A man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • A Mursi man with a rifle in the village of Galap.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Kara man doing flood recession agriculture on the banks of the Omo.
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  • A Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Hamar male becomes a man during a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Scars on a Nyangatom man reveal that he has killed enemies.
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  • A man fixes mining equipment in a muddy pit in a search for gold in Borneo. Such operations leave a devastated landscape and miners test high for mercury earning about $5US a day.
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  • An elderly man in a courtyard.
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  • An indigenous man from the rainforest protests in Quito surrounded by police.
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  • A man crushes rocks for road construction outside the El Molo village of Komote in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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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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  • 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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  • Costumed and on stilts, an artist joins the festivities of Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert. A unique mobilized vehicle is part of the art. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience in Nevada's National Conservation area, one of Earth's flattest spots.
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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. 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 tent city is erected for thousands of people at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert. They create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience 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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  • A retired man holding newborn kittens.
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  • A man and dog on the deck of their float house.
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  • A man holds a yellow eye fish he caught off of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A man hoes neat rows of potatoes in the family garden at Mud River.
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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 man and woman package plastic toys.
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  • An El Molo man crushes rocks in the village of Komote in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • A man catches a fish on Ferguson Gulf in the Lake Turkana area of Kenya.
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  • A man leads a baby camel through the chaos of four wheel drive vehicles.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • A Nyangatom man cooking a goat at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Man seated in the Potaro River, hunting with bow and arrow.
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  • An Australian man and his Chinese fiance ride in a taxi on their way to purchase their wedding clothes. Susanne is marrying her boyfriend in Hong Kong next week and they went to the knock-off mall to get clothes made for the wedding.
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  • Leaving  a Johnny Walker/Formula one car event at Granvill Mal in Guangzho, I came upon a woman with a broken shoe on the city street. Her friend was trying to fix it by using his cell phone as a hammer. Cell phones are changed up so frequently, so why not use it as a hammer? She laughed and was embarrassed because their friends were laughing at the scene too.
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  • A father and sons react to the polluted orange/black water in their bathroom. It smells bad, has an oily residue and is mixed with coal soot. The man fears for his sons because his own health is effected. He suffers from rashes and red eyes when he showers and he tells the kids, “Don’t brush teeth in water. Don’t drink the water.”<br />
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When he moved in his home, he thought the only problem was that the water was discolored by iron. At 38 years old, he has since developed gallstones, breathing problems, memory loss, and his hair is falling out. He has anxiety, nervousness, and his pancreas is at two percent function. All of this occurred after he moved to this trailer. Scared for his family, he asks, “What have I done to them?”<br />
A November 4, 2003 Associated Press article by Michelle Saxton of the Williamson Daily News entitled “Water in Mingo Communities Contains Manganese” stated that some security guards quit opening valves on Massey pumps when they realized they were poisoning the community. In a later court hearing it was shown that Massey Coal Company had, indeed, Illegally injected slurry from the Rawls Sales Processing Company (Massey Coal Company subsidiary) impoundment into abandoned underground mines for at least eight years.<br />
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As of the fall of 2011, some 500 West Virginia residents are still in limbo over a suit brought against Massey energy over claims that it and Rawls Sales poisoned hundreds of drinking water wells with coal slurry.
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  • A young girl sits with her parents at the dinner table in their home. This is from Leslie Chang’s story that accompanied these photographs in National Geographic Magazine:<br />
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"By the time she was ten, Bella lived a life that was rich with possibility and as regimented as a drill sergeant’s. After school she did homework unsupervised until her parents got home. Then came dinner, bath, piano practice. Sometimes she was permitted television, but only the news. On Saturdays she took a private essay class followed by Math Olympics, and on Sundays a prep class for the middle-school entrance exam and piano lessons. The best moment of the week was Friday afternoon, when school let out early. Bella might take a deep breath and look around, like a man who discovers a glimpse of blue sky from the confines of the prison yard."
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  • Susanne from Shenzen is plans to marry her boyfriend in Hong Kong. They take a cab to the knock-off mall to get clothes made for the ceremony. Statistics show that many western men marry Chinese women, but the government promoted a soap opera featuring the opposite situation called “Foreign Babes in Beijing,” featuring western women falling for Chinese men.
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  • A man swings a club at a Golf Driving Range, off the Fourth Ring Road lined with skyscrapers in Beijing, China
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  • Bulldozers fill trucks with excess rock at a small mountaintop removal site in Man, West Virginia, where a small crew is mining coal in a site in Logan County that was left by a large coal company as rubble. Mine operator Gordon Justice said, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."<br />
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Large mining operations are only visible from the air, although coal and debris are removed using enormous earth-moving machines known as draglines that stand 22 stories tall and can hold 24 compact cars in its bucket. The machines can cost up to $100 million, but are favored by coal companies because they can do the work of hundreds of employees. A small operation like this one can keep 17 employees working for five years and making good wages.
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  • Elevated view of a small mine operation finding coal after a larger company left. The owner of this operation stated that "One man's trash is another man's treasure." His equipment works on a mountain top coal mine.
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  • A Ugandan child watches a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • A white-hat tops a cowboy who competes with the wild horse he trained in thirty days for the Extreme Mustang Makeover. For this exercise in the competition, the horse is turned in circles keeping inside the square of orange cones.
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  • A silhouetted man push poles his boat away from shore into the St. Mary's River in Florida. Vibrant colors of sunset reflect in the water in the fading light.
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  • A cowboy competes with his newly-trained wild horse in the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Thirty trainers were given unhandled young Bureau of Land Management horses and thirty days to prepare. Judges scored them on how well the horses performed certain tasks and an open program to show off more talents. Horses were auctioned off to the public following the event which featured mustangs strengths and trainability.
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  • A Koryak man dries fish in his summer camp that will feed his family through the winter. Koryaks are an indigenous people of Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, who inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The koryak are typically split into two groups. The coastal people Nemelan (or Nymylan) meaning ‘village dwellers’ due to their sedentary fishing habits and the inland Koryaks, reindeer herders called Chauchen (or Chauchven) meaning ‘rich in reindeer’ who are more nomadic.
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  • A man fixes mining equipment in a muddy pit in a search for gold in Borneo. Such operations leave a devastated landscape and miners test high for mercury earning about $5US a day.
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  • A man fixes mining equipment in a muddy pit in a search for gold in Borneo. Such operations leave a devastated landscape and miners test high for mercury earning about $5US a day.
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  • Snow accents the contours of a fresh valley fill at a coal mine site seen in an aerial view. Tops of mountains are blasted away and flattened to reveal a small seam of coal, and the rock and debris is dumped into V-shaped valleys filling in stream beds.
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  • Urban street scene in Beijing shows a woman wearing a dollar sign earring. Southern Metropolitan News surveys since 1989 cite Guangzhou residents as responding that “love” comes after “money” on the value ladder.
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  • A worker in a steel mill in Huaxi village.
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  • Plastic covers a stockpile of coal at Elk Run Mining Company processing plant seen in a aerial view. The town of Sylvester was covered in black coal dust causing health issues as it seeped inside homes.In 2001, Sylvester residents filed a lawsuit against Elk Run Mining for damages to property.
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  • A guard stands outside a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A greatly laden rickshaw carries styrofoam packaging boxes.
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  • With construction booming, there is a joke that the "crane" is the official bird of China.  China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition has one of the biggest auto shows on the planet. A coal power plant comes online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego.
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  • Hobet 21 mountain top removal coal mine seen from the air, grows larger and approaches a family home. Mines run 24 hours a day, seven days a week creating coal dust impossible to keep out of houses.
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  • Guang Hui Plaza | Shanghai, China  in the west part of Shanghai–Xugiahui area. Public displays of affection are rare, but these two young people are comfortable sitting close to each other and watching the world go by.
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  • A guard at an upscale gated housing development.
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  • A worker fixes a power line standing on a ladder balanced on the wires in Beijing.
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  • Crocodile and other meat at the butchery department of Sam's Club.
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  • Bulldozers push rocks into hills attempting to reclaim the land after coal mining at a mountaintop removal mining site. This small mine site dwarfs the equipment so they look like toys.
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  • Hydroseed grass is sprayed on steep contours of a reclaimed mountaintop removal mine site in an effort to control erosion. Reclamation requires mining companies to return the land to it's original contours and plant but little grows on these rocky soils and the operation is often repeated.  Spray-on grass replaces more than 60 tree species that ruled some of the world’s most diverse temperate forests.
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