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  • People watching a video of their dog on a computer.
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  • Resettled people in a community neighboring a gold mine.
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  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • Maternity Ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.  Head of OB/GYN was taught by Jotham Musinguzi who became head of Population and Development Dept. for the government.  Jotham recently retired because he did not agree with the current president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Museveni has a military background and just wants to get BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Jotham said he wants to bump Uganda's population up to 60M before he even starts to worry about infrastructure for all these people. Uganda is about 30M now.  About half of Uganda's population is under 15 and life expectancy is about 50.  Population has doubled from 1990 to now.
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  • The grooms antics amuse the bride during a wedding reception in Khailino in Kamchatka, Russia. It is important to note that some of the theater of this wedding happened because it is Russian tradition. The community has endured great hardship and a people who have adjusted to being really kind to each other to all survive together.
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  • A bride's father supplies caviar from his fishing camp. He got enough caviar to feed 200 people at his daughter’s wedding. <br />
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The bride is one quarter indigenous—there is, however, an easy mix between indigenous and white Russians. This family decided to have a wedding although the bride is seven months pregnant. Common-law marriages are the norm among the indigenous people, so the entire town prepared for almost a year for this event.  Most of the decorations were brought in by MI-8 helicopter.  <br />
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Russia wanted to “tame” the salmon zones in Kamchatka, so some moved to the northern communities that were technically war zones with the United States.  To do so, they had to have connections and get permits, then move to where they make eight times what they can in Moscow in government wages. When default happened and their state-subsidized salaries disappeared, all they were left with was the resource—salmon.
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  • Refugee Pygmies wash near their leaf huts. They are under threat from logging companies and a rapidly changing world with little concern for indigenous people and their traditions.
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  • The Kakuma Refugee Camp is near Lake Turkana and the northern border of Kenya. 123K  people have lived in this camp since the beginning of the war between Sudan and Ethiopia and have continued to live there thru the 20 year conflict in South Sudan. The town of Kakuma has grown to 70,000 because of the UN presence. Turkana are the local tribal people and would normally be agrarian but they now spend their time cutting firewood and making charcoal for the refugees in the camp. The exchange is generally for food. There are many Nuer and Dinkas in this camp as well as DRC folks from Kivu and Goma primarily.
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  • This settlement was built on top of the Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila. These itinerant residents will be moved to a settlement in the north. There was a major effort to clean up the Pasig river, but the plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines in the top three countries polluting the oceans with plastics. The Pasig is the second biggest source of plastic waste in the world. It puts 32,100 tons of plastic into the ocean per year.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes to the degree that the stream is no longer visible. It is choked with plastic waste. Hardly believable, the stream in this photo is on the left side of the frame. Itinerant residents will be relocated to Bulacan, a settlement in the north. Although the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from here into the river making the Philippines one of the top three countries the world a contributor to polluting the oceans with plastics.
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  • Three tourists walk toward the staircase that leads to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacán Aztec site. Teotihuacán was Mexico's biggest ancient city, pre-Columbian and pre-Hispanic empire with perhaps 200,000 people at its peak. <br />
Centuries after its fall, it was still a pilgrimage site for Aztec royalty who believed the gods had sacrificed themselves here to start the sun moving. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most visited archeological site in Mexico.
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  • El Molo fishermen send out their nets in the evening just outside the El Molo village of Komote. El Molo are the people of the lake. Everyone else in this area were pastoralists but with pressure from limited resources many Turkana are moving into this community and taking up fishing. Many El Molo are deformed from drinking lake water. The lake has one inlet and no outlet and gets saturated with minerals and high levels of fluoride. This El Molo village is just outside Loiyangalani.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Three volcanoes, now dormant, formed Easter Island half a million years ago.  Rano Kau is the largest crater on the island with an aerial view from the mirador on the headlands. Inside is a lagoon of fresh water filling the crater that is almost a mile wide and 1,000 feet high above the Pacific Ocean in Rapa Nui National Park.
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  • An opulent home with three bedrooms and three living rooms in Huaxi.
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  • Three generations play in the home they share.
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  • Three men contemplate the best way to cross a flooded dirt road.
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  • People on the 236 bus in Guangzhou.
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  • Three Australian Aborigines seen through windows in a van.
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  • Three woman wearing felt fedoras laugh and watch friends at a community gathering in a rural, mountain area of Ecuador. The traditional hats as similar to the Cholita or bowler hats worn by women in Bolivia.
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  • Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago.
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  • Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago.
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  • Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago.
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  • A resident exits a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A teenage girl and her parents relaxing.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • Bridesmaids prepare for a wedding.
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  • Flower girls at a wedding.
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  • A Chinese woman runs a chain of boutique spas.
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  • Model takes a smoke break backstage as she is styled for a bridal fashion show. Wedding dresses and evening gowns were part of the formal wear shown off to eager young fashionistas in Monterrey, Mexico.
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  • Business men take a smoke and coffee break at an upscale coffee bar. Coffee shops are on every block in downtown Santiago where men catch a cup of coffee and maybe a kiss. Dressed in a short, red dress, the waitress works for substantial tips at Cafe Cousino or Coffee with Legs. She can make $800 a week by flirting, lighting cigarettes and serving coffee.
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  • A family returns home with groceries in plastic shopping bags.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • A teenage girl shopping for lemons and limes with her parents.
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  • Models at the 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Models sleep before appearing at a fashion show at a bar venue.
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  • Photographers and a model at an automobile exhibition.
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  • A young woman in the food court of a shopping mall.
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  • Cleaning an apartment before dinner.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • An Australian man and his Chinese fiance ride in a taxi on their way to purchase their wedding clothes. Susanne is marrying her boyfriend in Hong Kong next week and they went to the knock-off mall to get clothes made for the wedding.
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  • A two generation family in their living room.
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  • Models primp before appearing at a fashion show at a bar venue.
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  • Models at a fashion show.
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  • A family interacting at dinnertime.
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  • A family eating dinner together.
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  • Shopping in a childrens' clothing store.
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  • Shopping in a childrens' clothing store.
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  • A man shoots a photo of his grandson and daughter in law.
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  • Susanne is marrying her boyfriend in Hong Kong. They take a cab to the knock-off mall to get clothes made for the ceremony. Statistics show that there are many more western men marrying Chinese women, but you don’t see that published in the media. The government promoted a soap opera about the opposite situation, however, called “Foreign Babes in Beijing,”  featuring western women falling for Chinese men.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • New products bombard Chinese consumers daily. Just keeping up with the new air freshener and portable camera . . . and . . . and . . . and . . . can be overwhelming.
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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • A young woman in a bar snaps a photo with her camera.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • Posing before statues of Chinese leaders in the Huaxi village square.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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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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  • Men watch a dancer at a bar.
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  • This is a pick up club for mistresses and there is a room of male prostitutes that get signaled to come over to a table where the women will choose.
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  • Dancing in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • A young woman with her baby and her mother.
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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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  • The Window on the World amusement park in Shenzhen allows Chinese to travel the world in an afternoon. Behind “Mount Rushmore” in this photo are actors playing Africans in huts and Egyptians at the Great Pyramids of Giza. Historically, during Mao, Chinese have not been able to travel. But for now they have to look at the “Eiffel Tower” and “Mount Rushmore” at Window on the World. Because of China’s one-child policy, instituted in 1978, this is the first generation in the world’s history in which a majority are single children, a group whose solipsistic tendencies have been further encouraged by a growing obsession with consumerism, the Internet, and video games. At the same time, today’s young Chinese are better educated and more worldly than their predecessors. Whereas the so-called Lost Generation that grew up in the Cultural Revolution often struggled to finish high school, today around a quarter of Chinese in their 20s have attended college. The country’s opening to the West has allowed many more of its citizens to satisfy their curiosity about the world: some 37 million will travel overseas in 2007. In the next decade, there will be more Chinese tourists traveling the globe than the combined total of those originating in the U.S. and Europe.
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  • Tourists at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen.
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  • A baby in a stroller and two women in an apartment.
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  • Adjusting the uniforms of guards at the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • This is 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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  • Drinks at a bar.
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  • A man points his camera as a woman checks her cell phone.
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  • Photographing the gate to Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • Russian Dancers in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye on her child.
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  • A couple at at a table visit with a friend and his dog.
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  • Villagers carrying firewood outside Millenium Village - an experimental village run by the UN.  The UN tried to find a cluster of villages that lacked food security, and then tried to solve some of the problems in a controlled environment.  This village has been going for one year, and they just gathered benchmark data for the first six months.
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  • A robot programmed to help elderly out of bed and into a wheelchair.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Goldsmiths work in a one-room factory in Kolkata.
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  • A teenage boy plays banjo on the porch for parents.
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  • The Twendy One robot project at Waseda University involves a robot being programmed to help elderly out of bed and into a wheelchair. Twendy One can also pick up a straw and put it into a drink for patients and the scientists hope eventually will be able to help around the kitchen and with shopping.  The hardware is very sophisticated with top of the line sensors everywhere including the very newest tactile sensors embedded in the palm and fingers of both hands, but the software to make all those sensors work in practical ways is lagging.  The hope is these robots will be a practical analytical solution to a burgeoning elderly class in Japan.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Workers sit in stalls to eat at the Huangsha Live Seafood Wholesale Market.<br />
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Fish had previously been among the cheapest sources of protein in China, but is now more expensive than chicken and recently also higher than staple pork. Growing demand and other pressures depleting some fish populations add to the problems.
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  • Cowboys from central Utah wait for a signal to begin branding young calves and an errant dog finds his way back to safety. Separated when they were moving cattle, the dog jumped up into the saddle upon seeing his owner. The ranch is surrounded by federal land of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Canyonlands National Park with spectacular views or the orange walls surrounding Indian Creek.
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  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University students in their dorm room.
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  • Man holding blue hose, and another handing a tool.
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  • A customer holding a large fish at the Guangzhou Fish Market.<br />
Tourists and locals shop from vendors who line their stalls with fresh catch at one of the largest fish markets in the world.
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  • A woman tries on her wedding dress as her Australian fiancee looks on.
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  • 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. 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 way they decided to motivate workers at that time was to shame them. Cosmetics are a major business in China and women in the China Middle Class 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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  • Australian Aborigine man with body paint on legs watched by two women.
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  • Nurses attend a patient in a volunteer built clinic.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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