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  • A trainer works with a wild horse, one of 50 she and her teenage daughter have adopted.
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  • A young trainer calms a wild horse she is training, one of 50 unwanted wild horses she has adopted.
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  • A young trainer calms one of the 50 unwanted wild mustangs she and her mother adopted.
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  • A young horse trainer gets a surprise buss from one of the 50 wild horses that she and her mother have adopted and train.
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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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  • An Australian man wearing one shoe.
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  • Gold miners in Kalimantan where one takes a smoke break from the hard work.
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  • Goldbricks from a mine in Ghana are packed and sorted for transport. They export about 500,000 ounces of gold in one mine a year.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Kitty learned to train horses from her grandfather and now, she works with mustangs and difficult horses on her western ranch. Her daughter rides one of the many wild horses she has tamed and trained.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • A man illuminates hieroglyphics on a wall in a Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies.<br />
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Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.<br />
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Swordfish are wrapped in plastic on pallets.
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  • A long line fishermen is proud of his large catch.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
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Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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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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  • Prison inmates ride wild horses at the Warm Springs Correctional Center creating a dusty, chaotic scene. They are training the mustangs to handle stress and to follow the riders directions in all situations. The horses are auctioned off to the public at the end of the training program. Wardens explain that the men and horses must learn to trust one another.
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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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  • A timber faller works alone with a chain saw in the forest cutting trees one by one at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It is dangerous work.<br />
 The forests in the Tongass can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor in Alaska's Southeast.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • A man sits with family members during a Day of the Dead vigil at a family grave in Xoxocotlan with candles and flowers. Dia de los Muertos is Mexico's most characteristic fiesta where it is believed that souls of the dead return to the earth. Families sit in the cemetery and sharing stories, music and their loved ones favorite foods.<br />
Some grave sites such as this one had a three dimensional sand painting done just for the celebration.
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  • The joke is the "crane" is the official bird of China. They are everywhere. This is the China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition, and one of the biggest auto shows on the planet. When people have MORE STUFF it also creates more demand for resources. China already consumes more of seven of the eight most basic resources on the planet (the eighth being oil). They need THEIR plastic objects, their cars, their air conditioning. There is a (dirty) coal power plant coming online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego.
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  • Goldsmiths shed shirts and sweat while working in a crowded, hot one-room factory in Kolkata.
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  • Fishing boats on the waters off of Pulau Misa, which is known for divers who capture fish for market in Indonesia. <br />
A young boy glances on the end of a colorful pirogue which is traditional in the region.<br />
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Pulau is an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.
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  • Fish carcasses dry in the sun on the coast of Pulau Misa, an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.
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  • A long line fishermen works on the boat in Olafsvik.<br />
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Lower greenhouse gas emissions are one of the benefit of long-lining. Also, the seabed is not damaged as it is when trawling. <br />
<br />
Longlines, however, can unintentionally catch vulnerable species and high seas fisheries have been particularly associated with catching endangered seabirds, sharks and sea turtles.
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  • A diver swims with fish in the clear waters off of Palau Misa.<br />
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Pulau is an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.<br />
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Almost 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited, overexploited or depleted.
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  • A hiker explores an ice cave recently revealed at Mendenhall Glacier. As the glaciers in southeast Alaska melt, ice is exposed thousands of years after being buried. Some tunnels in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield are connected to ice caves, which formed as the glacier moved across uneven surfaces.<br />
During the Pleistoncene Great Ice Age several climate fluctuations created glacial advance and retreat, and vast sheets of ice covered nearly a third of the Earth’s land mass and one half of Alaska. As the climate warmed during the Holocene, ice retreated remaining in Alaskan at high elevations. The most recent variation in advance and retreat created the Juneau Icefield formed 3,000 years ago and ending in the 1700’s. Mendenhall Glacier has flowed for 250 years for 13 miles ending in a lake at its’ base.
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  • A woman worker sorts lumber after logs are milled. Few industrial pulp mills remain open since the commercial timber industry fell on hard times. But small family operations like this one continue milling wood for products and local use rather than export.
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  • Float planes dock to board and carry tourists, then take off over cruise ships to sightsee glaciers, whales and bears. The Misty Fjords National Monument is one of the area’s major attractions.
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  • Trash pickers in Bantar Gebang dumpsite outside Jakarta Indonesia work in one of the biggest landfills in the world. Security guards say 100 trash pickers that work around the tractors have died over the course of the dumps lifetime. There are thousands of trash pickers, and the only material they were scavenging was plastic.
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  • Trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump. One plastic worker walks from her tent and begins her morning by finding a discarded piece of red material to add to her outfit. A dog watches her and birds fly over this city of garbage which is the Kalyan Dumping Ground in Thane district outside Mumbai. Most all the trash pickers were gathering plastic, a precious find for recycling.
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  • Children catch tiny fish in a stream that comes from Manila Bay, goes through a fish hatchery, and comes out a slightly cleaner before it flows back into the bay. This is one of the few places I could take underwater photographs because the hatchery filters the water. A lingering memory from this trip will be that all our garbage goes SOMEWHERE and in the Philippines it goes to the most marginalized areas to sort, de-label and pile up creating a hazard.
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  • A photographer with goldsmiths in a one-room factory in Kolkata.
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  • A goldsmith working in a one-room factory in Kolkata uses his teeth to steady a piece while he uses both hands to work the metal, softened by heat of a flame.
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  • Gold jewelry on display in a store in Hong Kong.<br />
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Gold is extremely malleable. One ounce can be spread out over 100 square feet. It  is too soft and too scarce for most uses.  Almost ninety percent of gold is used for adornment or money.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • Equiped with crampons and emergency equipment, a hiker crawls through a blue ice tunnel formed in the Mendenhall Glacier. As the glaciers in southeast Alaska melt, ice is exposed thousands of years after being buried. Some tunnels in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield are connected to ice caves, which formed as the glacier moved across uneven surfaces.<br />
<br />
During the Pleistoncene Great Ice Age several climate fluctuations created glacial advance and retreat, and vast sheets of ice covered nearly a third of the Earth’s land mass and one half of Alaska. As the climate warmed during the Holocene, ice retreated remaining in Alaskan at high elevations. The most recent variation in advance and retreat created the Juneau Icefield formed 3,000 years ago and ending in the 1700’s. Mendenhall Glacier has flowed for 250 years for 13 miles ending in a lake at its’ base.
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  • The IKEA store in Shanghai, China is packed daily, but Sundays are particularly crowded. Sometimes one can’t maneuver through the aisles.
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  • A  flamboyant bar in south China attracts new wealth. In the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou, the bartender sets up a stack of glasses, then pours a flaming liquid over the top to make one of the most popular drinks, a Flaming Lamborghini. Young people demand nice places to eat and drink. The news bombards us every day about how China’s economic engine will change our world. At the center of this engine is the “Little Capitalist” class or ”Comfort Class.” This group embraces Deng Xiaoping’s revolutionary proclamation, “To get rich is glorious.” After 50 years of pent up frustration and stoically weathering the worst social experiment in history—Mao’s Cultural Revolution—this class is ready to lead the charge for the most voracious consumption on the planet. Of the five major commodities (grain, meat, oil, coal and steel), only oil consumption is less than the United States. This consumption is estimated to increase by 18 percent each year for the next decade, compared with 2 percent for the U.S.<br />
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The number of Chinese adults under 30 was expected to swell 61%, to 500 million by 2015, equivalent to the entire population of the European Union. Ironically populated by children whose parent’s lives were ruined by Mao precisely because they were capitalists, this “Comfort Class” came of age after Tiananmen Square in 1989. They are politically apathetic. To them, Tiananmen Square was a failure and they just want a nice life. Estimates vary, but the higher claims are that there are 150 million in the comfort class, which would equal the size of the U.S. middle class. As their culture turbo-evolves and our culture devolves it is hard not to compare both in terms of political apathy, cushy lifestyle, and preoccupation with the pursuit of consumer goods.
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  • Goldsmiths live and work in a one-room factory in Kolkata. The men make ornate necklaces that are highly valued during wedding season. Artisanal craftsmen are often from the same village and share food and sleeping spaces in cramped quarters.
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  • A hose snakes through the front yard where a family with a dry well hauls water. They fill five-gallon buckets and jugs in the back of their pickup truck for their personal use.<br />
Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • A woman with a dry well cooks with water from a container. The family hauls water in a pick up truck for personal use cooking and bathing. Wells run dry for about 30 nearby families from heavy agricultural use from the Ogallala Aquifer.
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  • A young girl lights a candle at an alter in her home at the beginning of Day of the Dead or Día de los Muertos. It is a Mexican fiesta celebrating life and death of loved ones.
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  • Hatchet in hand, a man steadies his grasp on the handle during a target competition-one of many challenges at a traditional logging show. The Southeast Alaska region's roots are deep in the heyday of a vibrant logging industry when locals come together for fun competing with saws and hatchets, pole climbing and wheel barrow races.
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  • A young girl lights a candle at an alter in her home at the beginning of Day of the Dead or Día de los Muertos. It is a Mexican fiesta celebrating life and death of loved ones.
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  • Woman places flowers on a graven in Xoxocotlan for the Mexican fiesta, Day of the Dead celebrations. Día de los Muertos is a celebration of life and death and relatives bring food and drink and spend time with their loved ones in the cemetery.
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  • Candles light a woman keeping vigil by a grave in Xoxocotlan during Day of the Dead.<br />
Dia de los Muertos is Mexico's most characteristic fiesta where it is believed that souls of the dead return to the earth. Families sit in the cemetery and sharing stories, music and their loved ones favorite foods.
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  • Randy Olson, a photographer on assignment for National Geographic at a gold mine in Ghana.
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  • An artisanal goldsmith's workshop in Kolkata where jewelry in crafted for adornment in India.
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  • A child walks by strange signage on a building in a street scene in Prestea.
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  • A shopkeeper arranges his wares in the town of Karang Pani which supports the nearby gold mining operations.
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  • Headlights illuminate the small passage for illegal mining in an underground shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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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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  • A scarf and safety best are worn by an Islamic woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine. She drives a truck that has 240 tons of rock that will yield about nine ounces of gold.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock are monitored on screens and windows at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Mass-market jewelry takes shape at a goldsmith's workshop in Kolkata. The delicate handwork is intricate with inlays and designs.
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  • Headlights illuminate the small passage for illegal mining in an underground shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • A girl sustained a brain injury caused by falling out of bed from the shaking from a  mining blast at a nearby gold mining operation.
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  • Portrait of a gold miner in Kalimantan wearing protective clothing but his face is caked with splashed mud.
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  • Mass-market gold jewelry takes shape at a goldsmith's workshop in Kolkata.
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  • Drawers are full of gold bracelets at Rajesh Exports, the largest gold exporter in the world.
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  • Buses, motor scooters and cars clog the roads under billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry. Buyers are lured in before India's wedding season when sales soar. India is the top gold consumer with buyers collecting for investment as much as adornment.
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  • A young woman wears her fortune in gold threads in her sari for the wedding.
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  • A laborer at a copper and gold mine wears protective glasses that reflect other workers.
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  • A young boy peers out a window protected with a grate. He joins others who sweep streets at night to sort the dust looking for gold bits to recover.
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  • Delicate and intricate pieces areproduced by artisan workers who produce mass-market jewelry. They work and live in a goldsmith's workshop in Kolkata.
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  • A scarf and safety best are worn by an Islamic woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine. She drives a truck that has 240 tons of rock that will yield about nine ounces of gold.
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  • Men work on mining equipment in a muddy pit while searching 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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  • The mud speckled face of a miner pops up while he is repairing a sluice box in a muddy pit of a gold mining operation.
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  • Mass-market jewelry takes shape at a goldsmith's workshop in Kolkata. Workers make ornate pieces that will be sold in jewelry stores.  India is the top gold consumer with buyers collecting for investment as much as adornment.
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  • Men work on 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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  • Illegal mining in an underground shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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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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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Cross country skiing with a dog on Mendenhall Lake.
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  • A lamb being held still.
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  • A boa constrictor at a reptile show.
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  • An iguana at a reptile show.
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  • An iguana peaks out of a woman's hair.
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  • A poisonous spider for sale at a reptile show.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A steel worker at the Wuhan iron and steel plant.
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  • A farmer travels by horse and sled.
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  • A boy on a swing in Easter Island's countryside.
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  • Goats stand on the roof in a beach settlement of the fishing village of Saint Louis, Senegal.
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  • Bottles of maple syrup.
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  • Salmon fishermen pull purse seine net into boat.
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  • Sawmill operator planes boards for specialty wood products.
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  • Logging and road building in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • A pilot boards a float plane, a common mode of travel in Alaska.
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  • A logger climbing a tree trunk during a logging show competition.
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  • A nun at Val Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent of St. John.
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  • Skiers ride chairs lifts in slopes around Siusi in the Dolomites.
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  • A farmer walks along a fence to his barn and house.
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  • Para gliding near Mont Blanc in France.
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  • A skier makes a run downhill on artificial snow at Siestriere.
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