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  • Ugandan children embrace a photographer on assignment.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • Russian parents with their two children.
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  • Children carry canvas lanterns lit by candles in an evening passion play processional. Christian Holy Week is celebrated annual in Mendrisio with this tradition.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy children play with a bow and arrow. The indigenous tribe is of hunting and gathering origin in the Ituri forest.
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  • A group of Mbuti Pygmy women and children.
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  • A group of Congolese women and children in a waiting room for medical care to the Pygmy tribes people.
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  • A young Australian woman and two Aborigine children swimming.
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  • Children of woman arrested by anti-poaching forces north of the park.
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  • Aborigine children sit on a truck after arriving at a swimming hole.
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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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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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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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  • Children playing in the snow on a hillside outside their home in Sylvester.
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  • Children living in the Dharavi slums congregate at their front door. These are the third largest slums in the world.  The world bank is trying to work out an arrangement where all of these squatters will get about twice the space they have now in new buildings, but it is complicated.
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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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  • Two Sudanese children, an adult and a donkey in a desolate landscape.
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  • Over 700 children carry hundred year old candle-lit lanterns made of canvas as they walk through the streets on Good Friday of Holy Week. The Christian celebration in Mendrisio dates back to the 17th century.
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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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  • Children wearing sunglasses and designer outfits prepare back stage for a charity fashion show in the exclusive, glamorous resort town of St. Moritz. The ritzy, Alpine resort town is located in the Engadine in Switzerland.
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  • Children play on a trampoline outside their home in a backyard West Virginia mountain holler.
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  • A blurring of cultures as children dance in the street wearing Halloween masks in celebration of Day of the Dead. The American and Hispanic celebrations coincide involving masks and candy in the small Mexican town where families use burros and make mescal from agave plants.
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  • Children in the village of Chelete.
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  • Nyangatom children at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Kara children kick up dust during a bull jumping celebration.
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  • Kara children kick up dust on their way to participate in a dance.
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  • Curious Nyangatom children check out propped up rifles in a village.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A mission feeds the Suri children porridge every morning.
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  • Hamar children pack onto a donated slide at the village of Logira.
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  • Children play with unexploded tank shells.
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  • Children in the rural countryside outside of Harappa.
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  • A youngster gets ready for a children's beauty pageant at the Cullman County Fa ir.
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  • A man walks down the road in Tom Biggs Hollow in Letcher County, Kentucky, while his great grandchildren play nearby.<br />
Lucious Thompson joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth when he found his land disrupted from mining above them. “There’s good mining and there’s bad mining,” Mr. Thompson said. “Mountaintop removal takes the coal quick, 24 hours every day, making my streams disappear, with the blasting knocking a person out of bed and the giant ‘dozers beep-beeping all night so you cannot sleep.”<br />
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Mr. Thompson spoke with the authority of a retired underground miner. Underground miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh, deep workplaces that were far out of sight. Now, the hollow dwellers have become witnesses more than miners as a fast-moving, high-volume process uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills.<br />
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“They make monster funnels of our villages,” said Carroll Smith, judge-executive, the top elected official, here in Letcher County, the location of some of the worst flooded hollows adjoining mountaintop removal sites. “They haven’t been a real good neighbor at all.”<br />
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With underground mining, coal miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh workplaces deep in the ground and far out of sight. With mountaintop removal, a fast, high-volume process that uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills that help define the hollows, the residents have become witnesses more than miners.<br />
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New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/national/11MINE.html
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  • A young cowboy confidently rides a trained mustang in the corral of the family ranch. The wild horse competed in an Extreme Mustang Makeover, a national competition, and placed second with the his trainer.
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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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  • A child carries a torch with the flame lighting the way during a Good Friday procession at the beginning of the Christians' Holy Week. Parishioners wear clothing of Jews and Romans as they walk through the darkened streets in a Christian celebration that dates back the 17th century.
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  • Excitement builds as young children gather backstage getting dressed and coiffed for a charity fashion show supporting a local hospital. Saint Moritz is renown as a glamorous resort town attracting stylish tourists.
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  • New York City children discover camping at Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey.
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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 bus is crowded with tourists who ride through the valley of Yosemite National Park.
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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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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Aborigine mothers and children cool off during a swim in a river.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Sleeping children who spend their nights sweeping dust looking for gold bits to recover in India.
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  • Children sleep in a store front together spend their nights sweeping dust looking for gold bits to recover from the streets of Kolkata.
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  • A writer mimics a Nyangatom woman.
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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • Newborn baby and nurse attendant.
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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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  • A Russian woman admires her newborn with her daughter.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A Suri woman with a lip plate carries her baby.
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  • Ghanaian woman with colorful umbrella walking through her village.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Kanoa family tending their taro fields, threatened by apple snails.
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  • A teenager works with miners sluicing for gold at an improvised, illegal mine.
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  • A young teenager stands on a submerged log to help miners sluice for gold in mine tailings at an improvised mine in Ghana.
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  • Newborn baby in doctor's hands.
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  • Nurse and doctor holding a just born baby.
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  • A girl gives her great grandfather a hug while he peels an apple on the front porch of his home. Her brother hangs out watching as a car drives up the holler.
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  • Kids play in a tributary of the Omo River as their mothers do laundry.
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  • Passengers gaze out the windows of a bus in Shanghai. <br />
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This easy migration of people from city to city is still hard for me to get used to. Seventeen years ago when I was traveling between Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, they all had a ring of policemen around them checking identity papers. I was in China trying to get through those rings of security during the Tiananmen Square uprising. I remember traveling with wire service photographers and driving through those checkpoints at 90 mph and seeing the policeman jump up and down on the dais—literally hopping mad—but there was nothing they could do because they did not have guns or radios. After being absent 17 years, I made (technically) five trips to China in about a one-year period. The growth is so fast paced I could feel the energy and the stress on the street. It makes you realize that our empire is over, but you can’t really understand that without being there. Even though the NYT has multiple stories, every day, on the growth and complexity of the Chinese economy, the average American has little idea what this means other than a fear that increased Chinese fuel consumption will somehow affect what they put in the tank of their SUV. Robert Frank photographed twentieth-century America, recording our coming of age—the baby boom, the start of television, car culture, modular housing, and relative wealth distributed throughout the middle class. His photographs are of progress, technology, plenty, but also the weary faces of waitresses and elevator operators who were desperately trying to join the economic party. Those 1950s faces remind me of a line in Leslie Chang’s story about modern China: “What looks like freedom just feels like pressure.”
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  • Men and boys dress in white sheep's fur costumes to celebrate Slovenia's traditional version of Carnival. In Ptuj, the oldest town in the Slovenia, they parade ringing bells to scare off evil spirits and chase away winter believed to bring spring and abundance to the land. Kurent is a mythological god of joy and wine and sometimes a creature with a magical instrument who persuades people to dance.
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  • A boy begs his father for a pet leopard gecko at a breeder show.
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  • A mother and daughter and other family members visit at the end of a reunion of the Caudill/Miller family at their homestead in Mud, West Virginia. The family fought Arch Coal Company in court to keep their 26 acres where they plant a garden and spend weekends. The home stood in the way of Hobet 21, a 12,000-acre, mountaintop removal mine. After a long battle in court, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a Lincoln County family was wrongly forced to sell its home to make way for the surface mine. Justices said a lower court was wrong to discount the family’s ‘sentimental or emotional interests’ in the property in favor of the economic concerns of a coal operator.”<br />
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The mining operations expanded to surround the Caudill property.
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  • Families gather outside a small, white-painted church for a ramps dinner. Allium tricoccum, wild leek, wild onion, spring tonic, or most commonly, the ramp is a wild plant that grows in the mountains of Appalachia. It resembles a scallion and tastes like a cross between an onion and garlic and dinners are a long-standing community tradition.
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  • A family works together snapping green beans at the Caudill-Miller family homestead.<br />
It is a summertime ritual for everyone to put up produce from the garden.
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  • Dust Buster environmental activist Mary Miller embraces her granddaugher while her grandson rides his bike near the elementary school in Sylvester.<br />
Miller helped document problems and joined a lawsuit when the community faced degradation from a coal processing plant that covered their town in soot.
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  • Homeward-bound farm families loaded with food and possessions, crowd into the flatbed of a pickup truck taxi as the open-air market in Xilitla draws to and end. In one of the largest ethnic Huastec Indian towns, each Sunday morning the narrow cobbled streets fill with stalls selling locally grown coffee, sugarcane, incense and corn tamales from the market.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Arbore women building high-ceilinged huts.
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  • Students compete for attention at a newly built village school.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen in the rain forest with freshly killed duikers which are an important part of their diet.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy woman smokes a pipe as another nurses a baby.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man and a young Aborigine girl.
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  • A bikini-clad woman helps Santa with his beard as a child looks on.
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  • A family gulps water from an overflow tank during the monsoon.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • A teenage girl and other shoppers with empty carts are dwarfed by stacks of brightly colored boxes lining the aisles of a store.
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  • Reflection in the rear-view mirror of a teenage schoolgirl sitting behind her father in a car.
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  • A teenage girl looks at a Chinese graphic novel or "manhu" while commuting to school in a car.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl adjusts her uniform at a desk with a computer. Her portrait hangs on the wall above her.
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  • A man plays with his daughter in their apartment in Guangzhou.
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  • A family siting in the kitchen of their apartment has a complicated family life. The grandparents were farmers and lost the land and their occupations to development. If the grandparents did not have a child they would be homeless. Ironically, the same development that took his home now supports their daughter, Ding, who works in the industrial park occupying the land that was once the father’s farm.
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  • Shuffling through shallows, a southern Sudan girl who fled to the government garrison town of Juba eats a foraged mango. Living in fear, she hikes with her Dinka family on an island in the middle of the Nile River.
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  • A woman prepared food surrounded by colorful cloth in the beach settlement Saint Louis, Senegal.<br />
The town was once an important economic center during French West Africa, however, it still has important industries, including tourism, a commercial center, a center of sugar production, and fishing.
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  • In Kireka, women break rocks to be used in construction materials.
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  • The Nakulabye slum in Kampala.
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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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