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  • Blurred motion of a surgeonfish in colorful reef off of Komodo Island in Indonesia.<br />
Surgeonfishes are small-scaled, with a single dorsal fin and one or more distinctive, sharp spines that are located on either side of the tail base and can produce deep cuts. They are primarily algae eaters.
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  • Water rushing over a small fall on the Sol Duc River.
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  • A bottled water plant in Hollis, Maine, has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • At the A Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant, ethnic dancers, wait staff, performers are all from Xinjiang Province in North West China.
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  • Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Fall, has a 75-foot drop as the waterfall flows through Mexico's largest preserve, Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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  • Flags and statuary decorate a colorful roadside altar in a desolate region of northern Chile. Shrines or  animitas are a common tradition of memorials that mark the site where someone died. People who are not related to the person who was killed can offer a prayer at the animita; in this way, animitas can take the roles of popular saints in the Catholic religion.
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  • Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Fall, has a 75-foot drop as the waterfall flows through Mexico's largest preserve, Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.
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  • Although high-rises ring its harbor and it ranks as Chile's business seaport, Valparaiso has never fully reclaimed the glory it enjoyed before 1914, when the opening of the Panama Canals redirected much of its business.  Cars and buses navigate hilly streets in a twilight view of the harbor with cargo ship, and skyline.
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  • Costumed young dancers move to the beat of a young drummer who blends African and Peruvian rhythms in their living room. The family descended from slaves brought to work in the area's cotton plantations.
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  • A lone man walks on a footbridge crossing Cascada Cola de Caballo or Horsetail Falls, a waterfall with a 75-foot drop that flows through Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park in Mexico.
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  • Chilean cowboy pushes his horse toward the railing to trap a steer at a rodeo.<br />
Hausos topped with Andalusian hats or flat-brimmed sombreros compete in teams at a rodeo in the Rodeo InterAsociacional Marga-Marga northwest of Santiago, Chile. The teams that are called colleras run a cow out of a pen and pin it while racing against the clock.
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  • Chilean cowboys or huasos compete in teams at a rodeo. Wearing red ponchos and topped with Andalusian hats or flat-brimmed sombreros, teams compete at the Rodeo InterAsociacional Marga-Marga northwest of Santiago, Chile. The teams,  also called colleras, run a cow out of a pen and pin it while racing against the clock.
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  • A bottled water plant in Hollis, Maine, has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • Plastic bottles move down the conveyer belt at Poland Spring where between 345 and 425 employees working at the Hollis, Maine site oversee an array of computers and the water bottle production line. The 838,000 square-foot facility is the largest bottled water plant in the world, turning out about 80 million cases of water every year. Some of the machines fill 1,200 bottles per minute. The plant has reduced the plastic in its half-liter bottles by 62 percent since 1994.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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  • Novices play ball in a courtyard during a short break from the strict everyday life in a cloistered convent at Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa, Peru. Older Catholic nuns allow this scheduled play to help the young nuns adjust more easily to the new rules and a routine: They are always silent, pray seven times a day, and never leave the grounds. Visitors to the convent can attend mass but never see life behind the walls where 23 women ranging in age from 15 to 93 make their home.
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  • Dressed in formal attire, a couple donned crampons to walk on ice to be married on Mendenhall Glacier. A helicopter swept them onto the icefield where they said their vows that were recorded by a videographer to save their memory.
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  • Southern Metropolitan News surveys since 1989 cite Guangzhou residents as saying that “love” comes after “money” on the value ladder. In 2008 “love” slipped even lower for most people, according to a survey by the Guangzhou Social Trend and Public Opinion Study Center. The center has conducted a survey each year since 1990. Another finding of the survey is that money has universally meant more than love in the eyes of women in Guangzhou for all years the survey has been given.
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  • A group of Umbero people look with wonder at a polaroid photograph seeing their image for the first time.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River. Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose.
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  • Spawning salmon runs fill the Ozernaya River, considered the crown jewel of Kamchatka  and runs directly into the Bering Sea.
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  • The Ozernaya River is full of spawning pink salmon— the most abundant—coming in from the left side of the frame, and sockeye—the most valuable—just below them.<br />
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The Kamchatka Shelf in Russia is the last safe place for salmon and the only place on Earth with seven species of oncorhynchus (derived from Greek words meaning hook nose). These photographs illustrate a story about fish that were left alone for millions of years but are now threatened.  <br />
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Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose. They stop eating, so it doesn’t matter that their mouths no longer work for food.  The photo in the Ozernaya River, above, shows
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter with spear and rolled up net for snaring game. He is tying leaves onto branches that the semi-nomadic tribe assembles to make shelter.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter with spear and rolled up net for snaring game as he walks through the forest.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai flow between the trains. By 2030 it is estimated that 60% (4.9 billion) worldwide will live in cities.
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  • Drivers compete on a mud bog course with all-terrain vehicles.
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  • A float plane takes off from the fishing village of Craig on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A water taxi ferries people to and from the airport on an island.
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  • Timber is loaded onto barges and taken to a saw mill for processing.
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  • Black bear feeds on salmon in Anan Creek.
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  • A waterfall spills into a rocky karst area of Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Parade of children carry lanterns in an Easter passion play.
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  • Car lights blur on a switchback road above San Gotthard tunnel.
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  • Glacier Express train in the Swiss Alps between Sedrun and Andermatt.
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  • A skier taking a jump at the Siusi ski area.
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  • A skier makes a run downhill on artificial snow at Siestriere.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher looks out toward the ocean.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • Restored homes grace a street in the old Wicker Park neighborhood.
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  • Ears pointed forward, a wild Palomino canters blurring at a fast pace through grasslands and prairie. Palominos are recognized by the color of horse distinguished by their cream, yellow, or gold coat and white or silver mane and tail. The Palomino horse is said to have originated in Spain around 1519, at the beginning of the Spanish New World and Cortez's reign. Although the exact development of these horses is unknown, their origin is rooted in Spain. Ears tipped forward indicate excitement or interest.
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  • A Palomino mustang mare intently gallops with a blur and ears pointed forward.
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  • As night falls, a blur of galloping horses reveals a stud that is chasing a younger male from the band. When males come of age showing sexual maturity, they are driven from the family to find a mate. It is believed this is their natural way of warding off inbreeding. The younger horse must find other males to form a bachelor band or win a mare for his own.
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  • Dimly lit tunnels through the Alps allow traffic to avoid snow-covered passes.
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  • A blur envelopes a young parishioner who carries a candle-lit canvas lantern in a processional that celebrates Christians' Holy Week. It is a centuries-old annual Mendrisio tradition.
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  • Water cascading over rocks in a woodland setting.
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  • Dirt flies up as horses gallop down the track in front of the twin spires of Churchill Downs. Horses are competing for a million dollar purse and a place in history.  First held in 1875, the Kentucky Derby is one of THE most famous two minutes in thoroughbred racing.
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  • The pier at Fort Baker is a popular place for fishermen.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The groups of young teens mix modern dance moves with indigenous influences. They are athletic and work hard perfecting their dance steps.
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  • A young boy carries a bouquet of bright, red zempazuchitl flowers that his family was harvesting to sell for Day of the Dead, the Mexican fiesta celebration. Pickers work late into the evening under the shadow of Popocatépetl, or El Popo as locals call the volcano.
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  • Intersection of Number 1 Shimen Road and Middle Yanan Road.
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  • Waves splash over a canoe while fishing in the waters off of Mbour.
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  • An anhinga fishing in river.
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  • Spawning salmon with hook noses dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River. The biggest threat to salmon in Russia is poaching.
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  • Spawning salmon with hook noses dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River.
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  • The Kamchatka shelf is the only place where all seven species of Oncorhynchus Salmon can be found. Spawning salmon dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River. <br />
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The salmon migration is one of the last great migrations that shapes the food supply and activities of many species, including humans. Salmon bring marine-derived nutrients from the Kamchatka shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk into the eight major river systems that run off the middle range of mountains that divide Kamchatka in half.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.<br />
The Kamchatka Shelf in Russia is the last safe place for salmon and the only place on Earth with seven species of oncorhynchus (derived from Greek words meaning hook nose). These photographs illustrate a story about fish that were left alone for millions of years but are now threatened.  Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose. They stop eating, so it doesn’t matter that their mouths no longer work for food.  The photo in the Ozernaya River, above, shows pink salmon— the most abundant—coming in from the left side of the frame, and sockeye—the most valuable—just below them.
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  • A wedding photo on a bridge with the Pudong skyline in the background.
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  • Young staff at their computers in an office.
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  • Flower girls and ring boys and a ringbearer at a wedding.
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  • Flower girls at a wedding.
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  • Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site.
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  • A man and his daughter clowning around.
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  • A family returns home with groceries in plastic shopping bags.
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  • Salsa dancing class.
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  • A man carries a plank out of the Ituri Forest in Congo where the Pygmies are hired by logging companies to cut down their forest.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter carries a spear and rolled up net for snaring game as the indigenous tribe moves through the Ituri Forest.
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  • Pygmy boys dance wear leaves on their mouths for silence as they go through a manhood initiation called nKumbi.  They wear ceremonial skirts for their circumcision ceremonies, and when the ritual is completed, the skirts will hang in the trees at the entrance to their village in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />
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Pygmies are nomadic hunter-gatherers who rely on a healthy forest to survive. They have no claim to their own home territory, however, because the colonial Belgians assigned land rights only to sedentary groups
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  • A band practices punk in an old garage.
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  • A view through the windshield while traveling a bumpy dirt road.
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  • Birds in flight in a blue twilight sky.
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  • A man swings to splash-down on an uninhabited tropical atoll.
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  • A boy grabs his hat and his girlfriend on a roller coaster ride.
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  • A visitor videotapes a sunset at Yosemite.
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  • Two tourists standing by trees are silhouetted against a night sky.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai.
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  • Kurilskoe Lake Preserve is a world heritage site and had serious poaching. But now, two or three wardens are always out on enforcement and they pack out for a month at a time. The official salary for wardens is $200 a month, but the WWF came in and supplemented salaries and bought them the equipment they need to do the job. WWF decided one of the gems of the reserve system that exists in all of Russia should be poaching free.
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts during their circumcision ceremony.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Canoeing at dusk in the Meadowlands.
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  • Unusual evening light after sunset glows from the sky warming the walls of the cathedral on the Plaza de Armas in Ariquipa, Peru.
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  • The dancers, wait staff, and performers are all migrant workers from Xinjiang Province in Northwest China. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 120 million (approximately 9% of the population). China has been experiencing the largest mass migration in history. An estimated 230 million Chinese (2010), roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year—and 500 to perhaps 800 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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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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  • Activist Larry Gibson lead two friends to a knoll in the family cemetery on Kayford Mountain to view a sprawling  mountaintop removal mine. Like a cancerous mutation of strip mining, entire mountaintops are blasted away to obtain a small seam of coal. Unwanted rock is pushed into valleys and streams, destroying natural watersheds, leaving no vegetation, and turning the terrain into unusable land.<br />
More than 300 of Gibson’s relatives are buried in the cemetery and his family has lived on Kayford since the late 1700’s.<br />
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Since 1986, there has been a slow motion, continuous destruction of the mountain—24 hours a day, seven days a week. Gibson occupied the highest point of land around, surrounded by a 12,000-acre level plot of land that was previously a mountain range.<br />
Over the years, Gibson was intimidated, harassed, and threatened by mining company employees for holding out. He remained outspoken against mountaintop removal.
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