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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 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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  • Three men contemplate the best way to cross a flooded dirt road.
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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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  • Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago.
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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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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • Boys horse race on the road to Hanga Roa from Tonga Riki.
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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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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • A live reef fish restaurant in Guangzhou.
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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 couple at at a table visit with a friend and his dog.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A teenage boy plays banjo on the porch for parents.
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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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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A man eating at the Huangsha Live Seafood Wholesale Market.
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  • Man holding blue hose, and another handing a tool.
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  • Nurses attend a patient in a volunteer built clinic.
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  • A customer holding a large fish at the Guangzhou Fish Market.
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  • Australian Aborigine man with body paint on legs watched by two women.
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  • Refugee Pygmies at their camp.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • American tourists don sombreros and sing with a mariachi band at a cantina bar in Nuevo Laredo, a quirky border town.
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  • The daily market in downtown Hanga Roa.
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  • Shrimp fishermen lay their nets in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • Minister of fisheries at his home with his wife and niece.
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  • Setting up a health clinic and way station for supplies in Kasoa.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Prisoners carve Moai in the prison workroom for sale to tourists.
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  • Prisoners carve Moai in the prison workroom for sale to tourists.
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  • Fishermen coming into port at Kayar.
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  • Senegalese fishermen returning from setting nets all night.
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  • Unloading a boat from a trailer to cross a flooded road.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
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  • A Kara woman breast feeding two children.
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  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
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  • Kids hanging out in a car waiting for a concert to start.
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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • A Hamar female, wearing butter, awaits her fiance.
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  • Fish inspectors rest during pursuit of salmon poachers.
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  • A domestic dispute incident.
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  • A Russian woman admires her newborn with her daughter.
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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 baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A volunteer takes a feral cat to the vet.
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  • Sheep to be speared during a wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Kapese.
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  • Sunrise brings early competitors to the camel beauty contest.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Fish inspectors take a break during their pursuit of salmon poachers.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks pursue salmon poachers.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks pursue salmon poachers.
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  • Caviar production area in a fishing plant.
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  • A dog relaxes in a motorcycle's sidecar.
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  • Anti-poaching wardens burn a poachers camp and caviar processing area.
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  • A bride's father supplies caviar from his fishing camp.
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  • Refugee Pygmies wash near their leaf huts.
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  • The building front of the Save the Pygmies Foundation.
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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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  • Wind blows makeshift shelters of El Nino victims of flash flooding in the desert of Peru.
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  • A Rapanui dancer paints his body.
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  • Pollution washes ashore on a Senegal beach.
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  • A fisheries trawler coming into port.
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  • Bathing in the waters off of Palau Misa.
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  • A teenager sluicing for gold at an improvised mine.
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  • Nurse and doctor holding a just born baby.
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  • Newborn baby and nurse attendant.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Women hand-paint ceramic pots in Talavera pottery factory in Puebla.  The Mexican pottery is a type of majolica (faience) or tin-glazed earthenware, with a white base glaze typical of the type. It is a mixture of Italian, Spanish and indigenous ceramic techniques.
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  • A Rapanui dancer applies body paint to a tourist.
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  • A beach community in Saint Louis, Sengegal.
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  • Illegal miners and their shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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