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  • A groom signs a wall with a kiss at the Rose Wedding Festival.
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  • World's first elk-activated crosswalk sign in Sequim, Washington.
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  • Elk with radio collars activate this flashing sign when herd nears it.
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  • A coconut sign marks a building erected as a mess hall for a failed copra plantation
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  • Brides numbered 32 through 43 line up in their queue at the Rose Wedding Festival. Seventy couples in this mass marriage ceremony traveled to Century Park for the ceremony. The marriage-age consumer is a prime target for first-world companies. The middle class’s under-30-consumer market alone is estimated to grow to the size of the entire EU market in the next decade.
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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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  • George Higgins plays the piano and sings at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • Billboard advertisements post where where singles leave their information in hopes of finding a partner. Male Chinese outnumber females, creating a challenge to find a mate. This is a result of China's One Child policy.
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  • Chinese shoppers crowd narrow aisles of the mall in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • Couples huddle under umbrellas in a rain storm in Xidan shopping area in downtown Beijing. Just off the side of Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city is a commercial street crowded with shops since the Ming dynasty.
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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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  • At a political demonstration in Hanga Roa, marchers carry the red and white Rapa Nui flag. They were supporting a move for independence from Chile which annexed Easter Island in 1888. <br />
Rapa Nui were granted Chilean citizenship and in 2007, the island gained the constitutional status of "special territory." marchers carry the red-and-white Rapanui flag.
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  • Live reef fish trade in the Sai Kung area of Hong Kong.  Dockside seafood can be chosen by customers to take to nearby restaurants where it is prepared for their dinner.
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  • Slows Bar BQ in Corktown across from the abandoned Central Station.
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  • A young girl wears a hair net at lunchtime outside a family take-out restaurant in the small fishing village of Petersburg. Located on Mitkof Island, the community attracted immigrants of Scandinavian origin to the Native Alaskan Tlingit settlement in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • Multi-state activists of all ages protest mountain top removal coal mining outside Charleston's state capital building.
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  • Multi-state grassroots environmental activists rally against mountain top removal in Charleston, West Virginia.
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  • A  90-year old was the oldest ranger in Yosemite National Park where he began working in 1930. He lived alone in a tent cabin, listened to classical music, read Shakespeare and passionately sang opera. He had John Muir's writings as a young boy and was inspired to study botany, zoology and geology. He continued leading interpretive walks five days a week in Tuolomne Meadows and afterwards, relaxed smoking his pipe with a cup of coffee.
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  • Zachary Moore is one of the Park Service policemen who manned roadblocks in Yosemite National Park after a visitor shot and wounded a ranger in 1993. Crime often surprises visitors who led their guard down when they are visiting parks.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • The main fish market street in Petropavlovsk sells Pacific Steelhead, which has been on the Russian Red Book of endangered species since 1983. Even though military, police, and government officials charge through this street all day long, and it is illegal, this endangered salmon is sold with impunity.
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  • A child walks by strange signage on a building in a street scene in Prestea.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry in the main street where people are reminded of the value in gold that is highly valued and often part of a dowry in the Indian wedding season.
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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 city bus drives under billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry. Buyers will be 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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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry in a bid to woo customers and boost sales. It is an investment and sometimes stores offer discounts to entice Indian buyers during festival seasons.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry in a bid to woo customers and boost sales. It is an investment and sometimes stores offer discounts to entice Indian buyers during festival seasons.
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  • Billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry luring buyers 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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  • Women with young children walk through the unpaved streets of a gold mining town in northeastern Congo.
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  • The current market and trading scene in Lahore.
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  • The old city area of Lahore.
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  • View of the "Strip" in Branson.
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  • A young woman with a camera taking a picture in a pedestrian shopping area at night.
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  • A woman stands by a fence in an urban basketball court that is lined with Nike ads.
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  • A cyclist and his son ride down East Nanjing Road, the world's longest shopping precinct; it is around 6 km long, and attracts over 1 million visitors daily.
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  • Parents finding a match for their daughter on a singles board. Unmarried adults search for mates with these pubic advertisements. <br />
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Men outnumber women in China because of the one-child policy which created a problem in finding partners.
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  • A stylish woman dressed in roses on a white dress watches Chinese shoppers crowd the mall on escalators and walkways in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • A lighted billboard showing a Chinese couple looms over shoppers at a  mall  in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • A teenager dribbles a basketball on an outdoor court with Nike ads.
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  • A woman talks on a cell phone in an upscale bar in Shanghai.
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  • Some skiers are challenged by the flat but snowy slopes of the Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site.
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  • Some skiers are challenged by the slopes of the Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site. A young boy has wet trousers from all of his falls in the snow.
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  • Some skiers are challenged by the slopes of the Yin Qi Xing Indoor Skiing Site while others take photos with a camera while standing on the snow.
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  • A woman in an office works under a poster of a distorted portrait of a blonde woman outside a conference room where a meeting is taking place.
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  • People stop to read profiles of prospective partners that are posted on walls and trees. Singles try to find partners at an event in an amusement park sponsored by a web site (www.juedui100.com). There are so many postings that they have to be changed every few hours. <br />
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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. <br />
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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."<br />
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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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  • Chinese shoppers crowd the mall on escalators and walkways in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • A couple talks over drinks at a Shanghai bar. Rachel broke up with her ex-pat boyfriend and is well-versed in the social scene preferring ex-pats. Statistics show many western men marry Chinese women although this is not discussed in Chinese media. <br />
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The government will not allow a soap opera about all the western men connecting with Chinese women, for example, so they promoted a soap opera about the opposite situation called “Foreign Babes in Beijing” featuring western women falling for Chinese men.
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  • Bright advertisements light up Xidan shopping area in downtown Beijing just off the side of Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city has been a commercial street crowded with shops since the Ming dynasty.
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  • A shopper inside a store in Shanghai looks out past a poster glamorizing cosmetics that feature giant red lips.
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  • Live reef fish trade in the Sai Kung area of Hong Kong.  According to WWF figures, Hong Kong has the second-highest per-capita seafood consumption in Asia, and is the world’s eighth-largest seafood consumer.<br />
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Damaged by decades of human activity, Hong Kong’s rich marine ecosystem requires concerted conservation effort.
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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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  • Billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry luring buyers 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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  • Lights are strung up in trees above billboards advertising gold jewelry that is highly valued in India.
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  • Cannery workers suit up in gloves, masks, hairnets and protective suits to clean seafood. Petersburg, a fishing village in Southeast Alaska, is known for fishing fleets netting large catch for processing.
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  • Cannery workers take a break on the dock during the busiest part of the salmon season in Petersburg on Mitkof Island.  Hundreds of seasonal employees--some students trying to earn some quick money.<br />
Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy.
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  • Street scene of Kireka outside Kampala.
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  • The Kumkapi neighborhood, primarily immigrant, in Istanbul.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • The assistant post mistress at a post office.
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  • Detroit Tigers baseball fan line up outside Comerica Park before a game.
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  • The Wolfsonian-FIU-Florida International University: a design museum.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • Activists protest mountain top removal coal mining at a rally outside Charleston's state capital building.
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  • Vivian Stockman protests King Coal and mountain top removal coal mining joining a number of multi-state activists at the state capital.
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  • Targets riddled with bullet holes at a police training firing range.
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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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  • Outmaneuvering rush hour gridlock, motorcycles rank as the vehicle of choice for many Santiago commuters. Dressed in a business suit and tie with a helmet, a Chilean businessman parks his motorcycle on a side street with lines of other bikes. Chile's bustling capital and largest city thrives on manufacturing, finance and trade.
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  • A shopping mall courtyard.
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  • A glass exhibit in Pittsburgh.
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  • A cart loaded with suitcases at a train station.
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  • Women wait in the Palace Hotel in Bangalore to view a display of jewelry made for a Bollywood movie.
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  • Red and yellow flags decorate a colorful gold jewelry store in Bangalore.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry are abundant everywhere in India....in the cities as well as the countryside.
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  • A woman with a red umbrella walks on a main street in a village with a satellite dish in Kalimantan. East Java has high unemployment and there are many migrant workers on Kalimantan (Borneo) who came from Java initially to do artisanal timber work. The government pressured smaller companies and the workers switched to gold mining.
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  • The building front of the Save the Pygmies Foundation which is an effort to protect one of the few remaining traditional tribes of the rainforest.
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  • A gray brooding cloud over a small store in twilight hours.
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  • A young lady mans the ticket window at the Sun Pictures theater.
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  • Lurid posters capture the attention of two young Texas girls.
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  • Child holds placard at the Ku Klux Klan headquarters in Zinc, Arkansas.  Ozark Mountains area.
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  • Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Pa rk is a bustling town vying for the tourist trade. Among it's attractions: a fi ve-story fiberglass dinosaur and Dolly Parton's Dollywood amusement park.
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  • A young woman mans the ticket window at the Sun Pictures theater.
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  • Couples sign their best wishes on a giant mirrored diamond outside the shopping mall before going to the park where 70 couples will be married.<br />
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Mass weddings used to involve gold jewelry, but DeBeers initiated an advertising push to make diamonds synonymous with weddings.
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  • Couples sign their best wishes on a giant mirrored diamond outside the shopping mall before going to the park where 70 couples will be married.<br />
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Mass weddings used to involve gold jewelry, but DeBeers initiated an advertising push to make diamonds synonymous with weddings.
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  • Rancher Leonard Baker watches the Australian sky for signs of rain.
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  • Flooded swamp land for sale in Florida along the banks of the Suwannee River.
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  • A bride stands posing as she is photographed by an escalator in a shopping mall.
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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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  • In a county that was littered with post offices, there are now only 5 left.  Durward Dixon, Mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. When they lay internet cables in Elida and break the water line, the mayor and the judge run out to the edge of town to turn off the water supply and then help fix the broken main. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40's and 50's like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their milk cows. The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses - huge farms of wind machines.
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  • Pedestrians 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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  • Bedsprings once served as a corral near Elida, New Mexico.<br />
The mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40’s and 50’s like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their handful of milk cows. <br />
The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses – huge farms of wind machines. Farmers supplement their income now with wind leases and will be more.
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  • Young people wearing orange t shirts at the counter of a Sams Club. The company also opened the first Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China.<br />
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This is the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. The signs that hang overhead in this abundant store proudly announce, “Made in China.” <br />
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In China 17 years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that displayed 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. <br />
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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 woman pushes a shopping cart by a wall of televisions that are all tuned to a show featuring puppy dogs in a Sams Club. The company also opened the first Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China.<br />
<br />
This is the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. The signs that hang overhead in this abundant store proudly announce, “Made in China.” <br />
<br />
In China 17 years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that displayed 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. <br />
<br />
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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  • Families shop at Sams Club. The company also opened the first Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China.<br />
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In China 17 years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that displayed 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. <br />
<br />
This is the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. The signs that hang overhead in this abundant store proudly announce, “Made in China.” <br />
<br />
<br />
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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  • Shopping carts full of plastic bags surround lunch tables at Sams Club in Shenzhen The company also opened the first Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China.<br />
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In China 17 years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that displayed 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. And there was very little plastic packaging.<br />
<br />
This is the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. The signs that hang overhead in this abundant store proudly announce, “Made in China.” <br />
<br />
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 man tries out a chair at a Sam's Club store in China. The company also opened the first Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China.<br />
<br />
This is the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. The signs that hang overhead in this abundant store proudly announce, “Made in China.” <br />
<br />
In China 17 years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that displayed 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. <br />
<br />
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.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176307.jpg
  • Clerks watch over counters looking for shoppers at Sams Club. The company also opened the first Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China.<br />
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In China 17 years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that displayed 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. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
This is the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. The signs that hang overhead in this abundant store proudly announce, “Made in China."
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