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  • Crumbling walls of Chanquillo dated archeological site 350 BC. that is located just off the Pan American highway north of Lima and just south of Casma.  Several towers surrounded by concentric walls make up the remnants of the fortress. Surrounded by a parched landscape of sand dunes, little is known about the crumbled structure.  <br />
 Lack of funds have kept the archeological site from being excavated but it is believed that the stone walls may have been used for ritual battles rather than real ones.
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  • A worker in a steel mill in Huaxi village.
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  • A steel mill in Huaxi village.
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  • A giant aquarium at the spa of the Shanghai Orient Rome Holiday Hotel.
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  • Children of migrant workers play outside an office building where workers are taking a break as moving men in Beijing.
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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 although two siblings died.<br />
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She has the Diva life designing her own furniture, spa, and clothes. Yvonne 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 hours of spa treatments any day she likes.
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  • People on a pedestrian escalator and walkway.
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  • City Planning Museum is near People’s Square in the Puxi side of Shanghai. A massive miniature city displays models that  show not only existing buildings, but also those planned for the future.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • A personal trainer helps a client at the Ozone Fitness Club.
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  • A lone office denizen at night.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a movie theater.
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  • A Chinese woman runs a chain of boutique spas.
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  • Pedestrians in a shopping area.
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  • Buildings in the Bund.
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  • A spa employee at the Mission Hills Golf Club.
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  • A man gets a pedicure at a luxury day spa.
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  • View of Hong Kong from the upper floor of an apartment in the city.
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  • A personal trainer helps a client at the Ozone Fitness Club.
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  • In an over-the-top, exotic spa, massage parlor, and hotel in the Suzhou Creek area of Shanghail men walk from the locker room through an aquarium tunnel filled with sharks and other endangered species. From there they can play ping pong or watch a movie with their family in their bathrobes, or meet their mistresses in a discreet room.
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  • A man swings a club at a Golf Driving Range, off the Fourth Ring Road lined with skyscrapers in Beijing, China
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  • Stallions enter a trap during a wild mustang roundup. Airborne wranglers working in helicopters with the Bureau of Land Management corral a thirsty herd of mustangs in Eureka, Nevada. Wild horses compete with wildlife and livestock for water and forage. <br />
An estimated 85,000 wild horses roam western lands, many are descendants of Spanish horses brought to the New World in the 1500's. In the 1800's the Spanish stock began to mix with European horses favored by the settlers, trappers and miners that had escaped or were turned out by their owners. Adoption programs and horse sanctuaries are attempts to provide homes for the once wild horses.
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  • Street scene of Beijing, China at dusk with lines of traffic in the road.
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  • A young girl looks over the view from her apartment on an upper floor over the city of Hong Kong..
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  • A spa owner gets measured for a new dress.
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  • Subdued atmosphere prevails at a crowded, formal cocktail party celebration at an Evian spa in Shanghai.
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  • A couple walks hand in hand on a pedestrian escalator and walkway.
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  • Century Park on a crowded Sunday.
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  • New construction along the Dong Da Ming Road.
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  • Trainer Kitty Lauman uses a rope as she works with a wild mustang on trusting to be touched. She learned gentling methods from her cowboy grandfather and patiently earns their confidence. She was a champion cowgirl going up and competing in rodeos.
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  • Commercials running on a screen on a boat on the river.
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  • With construction booming, there is a joke that the "crane" is the official bird of China.  China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition has one of the biggest auto shows on the planet. A coal power plant comes online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego.
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  • Brokers take a noon break at the Beijing stock market.
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  • A man tests the pool water in the Ozone Fitness Club.
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  • A woman works out on a treadmill with a view onto the city of Guangzhou. Health clubs are surging in popularity, partly as an antidote to work stress. The Total Fitness Club, with 11 branches in Guangzhou, offers six kinds of yoga, and classes in salsa and pole dancing.
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  • A truck transports migrant workers in China that are often people from impoverished regions of the country that have moved to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. <br />
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An estimated 230 million Chinese in 2010, have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years with about 13 million more joining them every year. Many migrants are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories. Men often get construction jobs while women work in cheap-labor factories. <br />
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So many migrants leave their homes looking for work that the rail system is overburdened. In the Hunan province, 52 people were trampled to death in the late 1990s when 10,000 migrants were herded onto a freight train. To stem the flow of migrants, officials in Hunan and Sichuan have placed restrictions on the use of trains and buses by rural people. In some cities, the migrants almost outnumber the residents.
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  • The Pudong skyline shot from a roof top bar.
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  • Yvonne, founder of Diva Life, looks in her closet trying to decide what to wear for the day—she rarely wears the same outfit twice. <br />
Her boutique spas in Shanghai offer 13 types of facials, plus $48 chocolate pedicures. <br />
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Her father escaped China in 1949 with his family,  but tragically, two siblings died in the crossing. Yvonne’s family is typical of the Chinese who wanted to get out when it was bad and fortunate to get back in when things improved. <br />
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Yvonne lives the Diva life, designing her own furniture, spa, clothes, etc. spending the morning at the fabric market and meeting with her tailor before going 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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  • Boats carry giant illuminated screens that show commercials as they motor up and down the river at the Bund, a waterfront protected historical district in Shanghai.<br />
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Screens are so bright they throw a massive amount of light pollution into all of the condo buildings and fancy hotels along the Bund. There were so many complaints from wealthy building owners that the LED screen had to be parked in one spot rather than going up and down the river.
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  • A miniature city is on display in the City Planning Museum just off People’s Square in the Puxi side of Shanghai. Models show not only the buildings that exist, but also those planned for the future.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • Tourists at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen.
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  • Teenage girls share a small umbrella while walking on East Nanjing Road.
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  • A Chinese woman who runs a chain of boutique spas on two phones.
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  • A steel worker at the Wuhan iron and steel plant is bare-chested and smoking a cigarette.
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  • Boats glide on plaid waters of the lake surrounded by high rises and empty stacked chairs in Century Park. The largest park in the Pudong area of Shanghai was built in 1996 and is also known as "Holiday Park."<br />
Part of China's plan for growth is to bulldoze old buildings and make gleaming new high-rise condos for the newly affluent which the Chinese prefer.
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  • Arial view of a terraced V-shaped valley fill that sits at the edge of a reclaimed West Virginia mining site. Entire mountains are blasted away in mountaintop removal mining in order to obtain a small seam of coal. Unwanted rock is pushed into valleys and streams destroying natural watersheds and the length of the Ohio River has been filled in. The result is a threat to clean water and the biodiversity of the ecosystem.<br />
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The Central Appalachian Plateau was created 4 million years ago, and one of its richest assets is wilderness containing some of the world’s oldest and biologically richest temperate zone hardwood forest. A flattened moonscape on top is mostly unusable.
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  • A street scene with a Coca Cola kiosk.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone.
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  • A young girl is reflected in windows of the lobby of a modern apartment building.
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  • A greatly laden rickshaw carries styrofoam packaging boxes.
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  • Brightly-costumed Russian dancers hair matches their sexy dresses on stage in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Rooftop view of sunbathers in New York's Central Park. Shadows sweep across Sheep Meadow, a 15-acre space where people congregate for picnics on in New York City on Sunday afternoon. <br />
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Woodlands dwarfed by high-rise buildings line the east boundary of Central Park and modern urban life surrounds the entire perimeter of the pastoral park.<br />
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Until 1934, a shepherd stopped traffic on the west drive so his flock could travel to and from their meadow.<br />
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When Central Park was just an idea, most New Yorkers lived below 38th Street in crowded, chaotic quarters. Frederick Law Olmsted planned the park with Calvert Vaux as a refuge from urban stress in a natural environment. The Park’s design embodies Olmsted’s social consciousness and commitment to egalitarian ideals.
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  • The most recognized symbol of Monterrey, Mexico is Cerro de la Silla, the saddle-backed mountain range. It is the backdrop behind the modern orange sculptural monument with laser beams, “Faro Del Comercio” or “Beacon of Commerce,” by sculpture Luis Barraz that is a contrast to the traditional cathedral, Baroque style Cathedral of Monterrey. <br />
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Beyond Macro Plaza both colonial and contemporary architecture are found on the streets. The third largest city in Mexico, Monterrey is the capital of Nuevo Leon. It is an industrial and commercial city with cultural interests. It’s said that Monterrey faces more to the north and the United States than south to Latin America.
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  • Dancing in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • A horse cart on a road passing an abandoned granary and church.
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  • A naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • Timber is cut into cedar shakes and lumber for building and construction creating jobs for locals at a small sawmill operation on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Bird's-eye view of a vineyard and train tracks running through the bustling city of Balzano in the South Tyrol province of northern Italy. Set in a valley amid steep hills, it is a gateway to the Dolomites mountain range in the Italian Alps.
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  • Tailgaters watch a Lions game on TV, parked in the erstwhile Grand Michigan Theater.
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  • Sawdust covers a worker’s boots at a salvage mill on Goose Creek on Prince of Wales Island. Although the timber industry has declined in southeast Alaska, the family operation makes red cedar shakes and cuts boards from salvage after a company is done clear cutting trees.<br />
The small company’s work is considered “value–added,” and is acknowledged as the best way to get the most dollars out of each board foot of timber harvested and processed locally.
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  • Stacked and bundled, red cedar shakes contribute to the forest industry with manufactured wood products milled to cover roofs and walls of buildings.
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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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  • Colorful lights play over patrons at a dance club.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish-owned farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • Trophies line the walls in an office at Pin Oak Stud, a prominent 4,000 acre  farm near Versailles.
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  • Some prized horses live a pampered life in retirement and command large amount of money for breeding rights in the hopes they’ll pass on the best qualities of their bloodline. An Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore, was built in recent years and features stone barns and bridges creating the charm of an earlier era. Stalls are filled with plush straw for bedding under chandeliers that shine in the cupolas.  <br />
Past Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch's stud fees are as high as $125,000 per mating. A farm worker leads the stallion to a breeding barn.
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  • Evening sunset light illuminates a fence on an Kentucky horse farm in early spring.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • This factory uses a geothermal cleanse to purify the saltwater that is used to process fish as they move down the line.
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  • A morning commuter along Wicker and the Riverwalk.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • Wild horses are gentled and trained by prison inmates at the Warm Springs Correctional Center. After several weeks of handling, the horses are auctioned off to the public.
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  • Ranchers work together to rope and brand calves in a corral near Indian Creek. Throughout the West in the spring, cowboys and cowgirls don western hats, saddle up their horses and put their roping skills to use to mark their cattle with permanent identification.
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  • A camel is given a massage to limber it for competition.
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  • Workers boring a tunnel that will divert the Omo River.
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  • Homes damaged and knocked down by surface mining blasting. The gold mining company never compensated the residents from the damage incurred in 1986.
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  • Stretch fabric protects newly-washed sheep from dirt prior to a livestock conte st being held at the Minnesota State Fair.
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  • Setting up a health clinic and way station for supplies in Kasoa.
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  • Storage sheds outside apartment building in Norilsk
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
    RANDY OLSON_06396_673129-11.jpg
  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Cafeteria inside Norilsk Nickel company
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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  • Cafeteria inside Norilsk Nickel company
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  • Boy in apartment in Norilsk
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  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
    RANDY OLSON_06396_673129-18.jpg
  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
    RANDY OLSON_06396_673129-17.jpg
  • From the air, the town of Norilsk looks like a city on fire.  Numerous smokesta cks belch plumes of brown and gray smoke into the atmosphere that can be seen f rom 50 miles away.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Rus sia--more than two million tons of pollutants a year, primarily sulfur dioxide.
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  • Street scene Norilsk
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