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  • A couple take in a view from Cape Florida Lighthouse, rebuilt in 1847.
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  • Visitors view an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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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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  • A fountain on the newly designed Riverwalk along the Detroit River.
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  • Yvonne’s boutique spas in Shanghai offer 13 types of facials, plus a chocolate pedicure for $48. Her father escaped China in 1949 with his family and two of his siblings died in the crossing (there were ten children, his father had multiple wives). Yvonne’s family is typical of the Chinese who were smart enough to get out when it was bad and smart enough to get back in when things were improving. Diva Life is set up for two types of clients; the ex-pat tai tai wives of diplomats and the wannabe Chinese who follow that crowd into Yvonne’s spa. Yvonne has the Diva life. She designs her own furniture, spa, and clothes. She spends the morning at the fabric market and meeting with her tailor, and then goes to her office. But the main reason she started the spa is so that she can have a couple hours of spa treatment any day she likes.
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  • A baby in a stroller and two women in an apartment.
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  • Young staff around computers in a dot-com office.
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  • People sitting outside a bar in the Over the Rhine district of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  • A car rounds a curve along a scenic section of the Pan American highway north of Oaxaca in Mexico.<br />
The Pan-American Highway is a network of road that passes through the America's many diverse climates and ecological types – ranging from dense jungles to arid deserts.
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  • A lone street sweeper works at dawn under ornate street lamps lighting the Plaza de Armas in the Spanish Colonial city of Arequipa, Peru.
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  • During October Festival of Bullfighting for the Lord of the Miracles, hundreds of spectators gather to critique the finesse of both red-caped matadors and bovine competitors. Plaza de Acho is Peru's oldest bull ring is located in a Lima suburb under the towering Cerro San Cristóbal mountain.
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  • Cowboy chic bar patrons crowd together under a red glow to watch dancing and mechanical bull riding. The bar scene is packed at midnight in Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city of 3 million, also the capital of Nuevo Leon. A modern, industrial city, Monterrey is described as most Americanized-where the pursuit of profit seems more American than Mexican.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • A young woman with a camera inside a shopping mall.
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  • Commuters in a subway car.
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  • A bride checks out a dining room for her reception.
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  • A bride prepares for her wedding.
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  • Commuters in a crowded subway car.
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  • Singers and actresses get ready for an opera performance at a hotel.
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  • Commuters in a subway car.
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  • A man on a computer and a woman with a child in a Chinese apartment.
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  • Refugee Pygmies near their leaf huts are threatened by logging companies and a broadening modern world. .
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  • The mask of a medicine man at the door where  Pygmy boys are secluded before the rituals signifying their manhood.
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  • Ghanaian men building a volunteer health clinic.
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  • Ghanaian standing in water as others relax in a canoe on shore.
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  • Nuns walk through a cobblestone passage inside Santa Catalina Convent. They are  followed by a dog that greets them while wandering freely the convent.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • Women working in a textile factory in Huaxi.
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  • Bridesmaids prepare for a wedding.
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  • Cleaning an apartment before dinner.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Man loading bag of cement onto a truck.
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  • School children explore a worn pyramid on an archeological site. The Huaca Rajada, of Sipán, Peru, is a Moche Pyramid near Chiclayo, Peru in the Lambayeque Valley, famous for the tomb of the Lord of Sipán, Peru excavated in 1987. The ruins of Sipán are dated from 50–700 AD, during the Moche culture.
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  • A lone hiker climb atop weathered desert sand landscape of driest place on earth. The Atacama Desert sometimes goes more than a century without recorded precipitation. The Atacama Desert is also considered the oldest desert on earth. On the whole, it has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • A fish tank separates patrons from the kitchen at a restaurant on East Nanjing Road | Shanghai, China
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  • Workers clean the granite facade of a Shanghai shopping mall.
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  • Office workers at computers.
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  • Pedestrians in a shopping area.
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  • Weary Chinese middle class groom to be on wedding shopping street in Guangzhou, China
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  • A man tries out a chair at a Sam's Club store in China. The first Wal-Mart in China is in Shenzhen, the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. This store sells all that a family needs or wants. The cosmetics area is much more plush than any Wal-Mart in the U.S. Women who work in offices will have a cheaper brand of lipstick in their homes, but carry a nice brand in their purse so they can be seen using it in public. The signs that hang overhead in this store proudly announce, “Made in China.” This is very different than the best store I could find in China 17 years ago. The best store then was a government “Friendship Store” that had a photo of a female employee on the wall with a sign underneath, “Worst Employee of the Month.” The only way you could motivate workers at that time was to shame them. Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, beauty in China is seen as utilitarian. Cosmetics for instance are a major business in China and women in the China Middle see this as an important part of their lifestyle. Wal-Mart aims for the Comfort Class consumer earning between $5,000 and $20,000 a year.
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  • A young man hooks up a computer at a new small GPS company.
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  • A young man inspects the inside of a computer at a new GPS business.
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  • A doctor and a patient at a health clinic.
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  • Lu (pushing carriage) lives with his daughter-in-law and son who is trying to do a start up GPS business and often works from home. Lu was sent to prison during the Cultural Revolution and tries to keep pace with today’s values, but still has questions about his son’s world. The “little capitalists” that live with their Cultural Revolution parents often have conflicts of ideology. The older generation thinks in a more Confucian way—never rise above your teacher, never rise above your father, others’ needs are more important than your own.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle hide in acacia forests to escape attack by government forces. The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs nearby, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Animals are a target because they are the last resource in times of famine.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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  • A bachelorette party waits for taxis on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • This Mexican photographer has been selling Polaroid instant color photographs to tourists at the base of Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Falls, for 50 of his 73 years. The waterfall makes a dramatic 75-foot drop through Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.  The falls and surrounding park are a draw for Mexican families for picnics.
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  • A businessmen crosses a street where patterns of reflected buildings make a geometric pattern in Chile's bustling capital city.<br />
Approximately three decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping malls, and impressive high-rise architecture.
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  • A grandmother works picking flowers with her family under the smoking volcano Popocatepetl in nearby Atlixco, flower capital of Mexico.  Workers harvest bouquets of zempazuchitl flowers for Day of the Dead celebrations.  Fields full of yellow flowers are cultivated to decorate altars and graves for the Mexican fiesta.
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  • Mariachis musicians gather a street-side crowd of both Mexicans and gringo tourists for nightly serenading. Plaza Garibaldi is where mariachi bands dressed in sharply, matching suits, have gathered since the 1920s, to play traditional heartfelt ballads for a few pesos.
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  • An anhinga in Kakadu National Park.
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  • An anhinga in Kakadu National Park.
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  • Gold mining in northeastern Congo.
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  • Workers pull a net with salmon at a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • Students in their dorm room at Shanghai's Jiao Tong University.
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  • Posing before statues of Chinese leaders in the Huaxi village square.
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  • Models at a fashion show.
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  • Singles try to find each other at an event at amusement park sponsored by a web site (www.juedui100.com) that caters to Chinese singles. The web pages of prospective Chinese partners hang all over the walls and trees and there are so many that they have to be changed every few hours. Julie, the president of the company, says that she counsels folks about going for love over stability but no one listens. She says they all want to find someone with a good job, a house, and a car before worrying about loving them or not. Even with this counseling, there is a surreal scene where young singles get up on an AstroTurf stage and recite their particulars: My name is John, I am 28 years old and I have a condo with two bedrooms. I make X amount of money a year, and I have a 2006 Volkswagen golf with a garage. This is backed up by a China Daily report: If you’re a single male living in Beijing, you need to make a mental note of this figure: 1,068,000. No, it’s not the lottery payoff you dream you’ll win next week. It’s the number of yuan you’ll need to shell out to get married. It’s going to take you exactly 12 years to save the sum on the condition that you don’t spend a penny on food, lodging or anything else.
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  • A young woman has her make up done.
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  • A Chinese woman who runs a chain of boutique spas on two phones.
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  • A bride at the shopping mall.
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  • Adjusting a bride's veil for marriage at the Rose Wedding Festival.
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  • Century Park on a crowded Sunday.
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  • People on a pedestrian escalator and walkway.
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  • Mannequins for displaying clothing.
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  • Tourists at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen.
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  • Ghanaian men building a volunteer health clinic.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Chilean cowboys in traditional Andalusian sombreros watch as huasos wearing colorful ponchos line up their horses under a flag in the ring. They are competing in a rodeo in ranch country north of Santiago by pinning a steer and trying to beat the clock.
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  • Restaurant patrons are inspired to join mariachi bands in song at a restaurant  in Garibaldi Plaza. Since the 1920s, traditional musicians have dressed in their finest matching suits and brought their guitars to serenade locals and tourists with heartfelt ballads and earn a few pesos.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • Photographing the gate to Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • A small boy in typical infant split pants urinates from a woman's lap.
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  • Brokers take a noon break at the Beijing stock market.
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  • A spa owner gets measured for a new dress.
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  • Russian Dancers in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • People on a pedestrian escalator and walkway.
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  • A woman tries on her wedding dress as her Australian fiancee looks on.
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  • Bantu tribespeople living a more urban existence in permanently build homes decorated with more modern items and wear western-style clothing.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • Masai tribesman cooking meat over a smoking fire.
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  • Newborn baby in doctor's hands.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • Nurses attend a patient in a volunteer built clinic.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • New houses built by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited.
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  • An artist paints a mural on a wall of the Matrix theater in Mexicantown.
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  • Tourists walk through the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Oaxaca Valley, it is an important archeological site founded in 6th century B.C.
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  • People play in the surf in La Serena, Chile's premier beach resort north of Santiago. The white sand beach is rain free nine months of the year and enjoys a transitional climate between the arid northern desert of the Atacama and the pleasant Mediterranean climate of the central coast.
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  • Inside a couple's apartment in Beijing.
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  • Young staff at their computers in an office.
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  • Shoppers outside a Sam's club store in Shenzhen.
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  • Migrant goldmine workers in Kalimantan.
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  • An opulent home with three bedrooms and three living rooms in Huaxi.
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