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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Students in their dorm room work at their computers while a roommate hangs his laundry outside the window at Shanghai's Jiao Tong University.
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  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University students in their dorm room. Men share bunk beds in small rooms that are crowded with books, clothes, bicycles.
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  • Students at a party.
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  • Students making costumes for a party.
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  • Students dye their hair for a party.
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  • Students and a teacher dance at a high school prom.
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  • Students attend a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Students attend a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Students attend a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Students play ball a at a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • A students cleans a classroom at a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Students compete for attention at a newly built village school.
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  • Students dress up for a party.
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  • Students hang out near college campus.
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  • Students attend a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Students clean dorms at a government school.
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  • Students of the public school in Endulen.
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  • Three Mennonite kids are the last to get off the bus in Lazbuddie, Texas.<br />
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Superintendent Joanna also has to drive the school bus for Lazbuddie schools but primarily is trying to figure out how to keep the school and community alive as they run out of water. When she started they had about 100 students now they have over 200 primarily from luring other communities children by offering an excellent robotics program and offering daycare. She had 90 days of water left for 16 families (teachers are housed at the school complex). The well got down to 15 feet of standing water. She got federal funds for a $360K well but who knows how long that will last. There are 88,000 wells around her in the TX panhandle that are poorly regulated and the water mining is affecting neighboring communities.
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  • Student gets money from an ATM machine ata bank.
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  • Student friends share cigarettes and talk.
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  • Paddlers cool off from oppressive heat in protected waters after enduring a day of  humidity and black flies in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge wilderness. Students from Valdosta State College reserved a wilderness trip that takes three days floating in canoes through the prairies and portaging over an island where they camped.
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  • Paddlers endure oppressive heat, humidity and black flies while taking an overnight canoe trip through the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge wilderness. Students from Valdosta State College reserved a wilderness trip that takes three days floating in canoes through the prairies and portaging over an island where they camped.
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  • A child plays the piano while a woman instructs in the living room of an apartment.<br />
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From Leslie Chang’s story that accompanied these photographs in National Geographic Magazine:<br />
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By the time she was ten, Bella lived a life that was rich with possibility and as regimented as a drill sergeant’s. After school she did homework unsupervised until her parents got home. Then came dinner, bath, piano practice. Sometimes she was permitted television, but only the news. On Saturdays she took a private essay class followed by Math Olympics, and on Sundays a prep class for the middle-school entrance exam and piano lessons. The best moment of the week was Friday afternoon, when school let out early. Bella might take a deep breath and look around, like a man who discovers a glimpse of blue sky from the confines of the prison yard.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye through the window where a musician plays a guitar to a yawning child.
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  • Children learn about at an ancient skull on a tour of the Sebastian Englert museum named for a German priest who came to the island in 1935 and spent his life studying the Rapa Nui culture.
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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • A day and boarding school in the Nakulabye neighborhood of Kampala.
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  • A child holds a microphone at a morning assembly at a public school surrounded by other school children and war orphans.<br />
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Half of Uganda is under the age of 15. <br />
The average African woman has nearly 4.5 children (and over 6 in four countries). One consequence of Africa’s high fertility is that a preponderance of its population is young. Twenty-seven percent of the world’s population is under age 15, but in Africa, the figure is 40 percent according to David Bloom, chairman of the department of global health and population at Harvard.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • Flag twirlers in a high school marching band practice their drills.
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  • Aspiring chefs watch a demonstration as a dish is prepared in a class at the Cu linary Institute of America.
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  • Newly graduated cadets smile at the end of the West Point graduation ceremony.
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  • Musicians play instruments in the Pacific Ocean surf.
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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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  • Mexican schoolchildren walk in pairs holding hands through the ruins of Teotihuacan. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the most visited site in Mexico. <br />
Teotihuacan is known for having the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas.
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  • A couple embrace in a messy college dorm room.
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  • Clothes hanging from the ceiling of a university dormitory.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, schoolboys walk through the dump.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Estero de Binondo stream in Chinatown area of Manila.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • The headmistress at a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • Hamar girls in boarding school.
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  • School children.
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  • Children in a classroom.  Boy in foreground has spinal TB.
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  • New York City children discover camping at Gateway National Recreation Area in New Jersey.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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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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  • A cheerleader stands in the shadows in Texas holding a giant megaphone used during games.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • School children and development by billionaires group in Iharara.
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  • Student checks box for mail.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • Red-suited ski instructors gather to play a game of cards before students arrive for morning lessons on the ice.
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  • Andrea the Crocodile, built in 1987 by vocational students.
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  • As a group of women (possibly students) looks on, the excavators examine the si des of a trench at the Harappa site.
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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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  • Students work on clients hair and makeup to learn skills at Princess de Gales, a beauty school in Quito.
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