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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery. They fish on cloudy days when they can see the masses of jelly from their boats.  A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish before transport to China and Hong Kong. Colorful fish also swim freely around the cages.
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  • Fish swim around the hanging cages holding reef fish before transport to China and Hong Kong.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a Zhapo, China fishery. They fish on cloudy days when they can see masses of jelly from their boats.  A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.<br />
Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery.<br />
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Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • Workers transport buckets full of jellyfish at a fishery.<br />
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A cultural difference; the Chinese like to eat jellyfish because of the texture.<br />
Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed for transport.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • Two men transport hay in a cart pulled by zebu oxen.
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  • Views along the Dalton highway reveal the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). The oil transportation system spanning 800 miles across Alaska lies partly in the foothills of the Brooks Range. It includes the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, running through Alaska's wilderness to the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is elevated and cooled by refrigeration coils to keep the warmed oil from melting the permafrost. Completed in 1977, it is one of the world's largest pipeline systems.
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  • Views along the Dalton highway reveal the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), an oil transportation system spanning Alaska that includes the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, running through Alaska's wilderness to the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is elevated and cooled by refrigeration coils to keep the warmed oil from melting the permafrost. It is one of the world's largest pipeline systems.
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  • Workers lift a frozen coelacanth fish that is being transported to a museum. Coelacanths are the fossil fish that bridge the gap between fish and the mammals that left the sea to walk on land.  Their fins become legs.<br />
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70 million years old, scientists previously considered the fish long extinct. In 1938, however, a fishing trawler brought up a live specimen. Since then more than 100 living coelacanths, remarkably unchanged since the Cretaceous period, have been caught off the coast of South Africa.<br />
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The coelacanth is classified as vulnerable by the World Conservation Union (also known as the IUCN), an international organization that maintains a global list of vulnerable and endangered species called the Red List. A vulnerable classification means that the species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future.
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  • A woman pulls a heavily loaded cart full of baskets transporting tuna for further processing in oceanside village.
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  • Contractors wrestle with a foal attempting to load the colt into the back of a trailer after the herd was captured during a Bureau of Land Management roundup of wild horses in Wyoming.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • The abandoned Beaux Art neoclassical style Michigan Central Station.
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  • Although high-rises ring its harbor and it ranks as Chile's business seaport, Valparaiso has never fully reclaimed the glory it enjoyed before 1914, when the opening of the Panama Canals redirected much of its business.  Cars and buses navigate hilly streets in a twilight view of the harbor with cargo ship, and skyline.
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  • Riding subway line Number 1.
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  • A woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine.
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  • A truck that hauls waste rock is washed at Batu Hijau mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai flow between the trains. By 2030 it is estimated that 60% (4.9 billion) worldwide will live in cities.
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  • People on the 236 bus in Guangzhou.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Maintenance to a truck that hauls hundred of tons of waste rock.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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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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  • Miss Ecuador drives a car to a public event.
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  • The John A Roebling Suspension Bridge, which connects Ohio and Kentucky, across the Ohio River.
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  • Commuters in a subway car.
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  • Commuters in a crowded subway car.
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  • Commuters in a subway car.
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  • Photographer Randy Olson stands in a slippery sea of jellyfish to make images of workers at a fishery in China..
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  • Fish are unloaded at the world's largest biomass fish shipping port.<br />
A swordfish is brought ashore in Vigo, Spain, one of the busiest seafood ports, handling about 675,000 metric tons of fish a year. <br />
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Lower stocks of commercial species such as Atlantic cod and hake have caused a steady decline over the past five years for Spain’s fleets, which receive the EU’s heaviest subsidies. <br />
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Yet Spain’s—and Europe’s—appetite for fish keeps growing. The EU is the world’s largest market, taking in 40 percent of all imported fish, with a large chunk coming from developing countries. Spaniards consume a hundred pounds (45 kilograms) of seafood a year per person, nearly double the European average and exceeded only by Lithuanians and Portuguese.
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  • Truckloads of rotting fish carcasses are sold to local markets in Africa after meatier parts of the fish are processed for European markets.
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  • In villages between Lake Victoria and the Serengeti Ecosystem, truckloads of rotting fish carcasses are driven to the local markets and sold. <br />
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The filets were cut off in the processing plants in Musoma and shipped to Europe overnight, and Africans get only the bones. <br />
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This is a cotton production region and these people have just sold their crops.  They have money to buy good food, but don’t have the option to buy their own fish from their own lakes.
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  • Women workers move dirt out of a giant reservoir of water.
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  • Aerial view of timber that is loaded for export onto a ship on South Prince of Wales. The forest industry depends on overseas sales and load floating logs from a nearby mill in a protected bay.
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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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  • Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon from the hatch of their fishing boat. Economists estimate the commercial seafood industry contributes $5.8 billion and 78,500 jobs to the Alaskan economy.
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  • A logging truck hauls timber from the Tongass National Forest to a sawmill where it will be processed and loaded on ships for export.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass National Forest is composed of high-volume old growth.  The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • A man washes his windshield while waiting to unload a container ship.
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  • Women workers move dirt out of a giant reservoir of water.
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  • Sugar cane workers, Sudan.These plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
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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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  • Women carrying bundles on their heads, Sudan.
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  • Prison, Sudan
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  • Osama Bin Laden home. Sugar cane  plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
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  • Sugar cane workers, Sudan.These plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
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  • Sugar cane workers, Sudan.These plantations were given to Osama Bin Laden in return for roads and airports.
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  • A worker enters the front door of the Umiat Hilton, in the unincorporated community in the North Slope of Alaska that is located on the Colville River. Oil fields near Prudhoe Bay were opened and the Navy built Umiat in 1944. The small lodge located near an airstrip is reputedly the coldest place in Alaska.
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  • Three vehicles traverse rolling hills across the green tundra in summer months as the "haul road" runs 414 miles north to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. The Dalton highway was built during construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s, mostly gravel highway with a few paved sections. It follows nearby the pipeline through rolling, forested hills, across the Yukon River and Arctic Circle, through the rugged Brooks Range, and over the North Slope to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions of the country moving to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. An estimated 230 million Chinese in 2010, roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year. Many 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. So many migrants leave their homes looking for work they overburden the rail system. 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. One young girl told National Geographic, “All the young people leave our village. I’m not going back. Many can’t even afford a bus ticket and hitchhike to Beijing.” Overall, the Chinese government has tacitly supported migration as means of transforming China from a rural-based economy to an urban-based one. From the New York Times: “As a result, China’s rulers face a dilemma: the very policies that cater to the urban middle class come at the expense of the rural poor. The revised law on property ownership pushed through despite objections from old-line conservatives, the law for the first time gave equal weight to both state- and private- ownership rights. But a look at the fine print shows that the law only protects things dear to the rising middle class: real estate, cars, stock-market assets. Farmers, on the other hand, will still be unable to purchase their land and instead will be forced to lease plots from the government.
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  • The Kumkapi neighborhood, primarily immigrant, in Istanbul.
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  • Young commuters on the Barcelona metro.
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  • A horse cart on a road passing an abandoned granary and church.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Drivers compete on a mud bog course with all-terrain vehicles.
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  • A float plane takes off from the fishing village of Craig on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Salmon fishermen pull purse seine net into boat.
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  • A water taxi ferries people to and from the airport on an island.
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  • Barge loaded with cargo makes its way past Ketchikan from Seattle.
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  • Houses and boats in harbor of fishing village on Baranof Island.
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  • Boat leaves harbor on Baranof Island in Sitka.
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  • Seaplane over Ketchikan Harbor with one of the many cruise ships.
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  • Seaplanes land in the wilderness regions of Alaska.
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  • Boy riding in back of car.
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  • Cruise ships deposit passengers into Ketchikan for the afternoon.
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  • Seiners bring in their catch to Craig Harbor.
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  • Timber is loaded onto barges and taken to a saw mill for processing.
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  • Logging truck hauls timber in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • A pilot boards a float plane, a common mode of travel in Alaska.
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  • Aerial of Revillagigedo Island.
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  • Glacier Express train in the Swiss Alps between Sedrun and Andermatt.
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  • Skiers ride chairs lifts in slopes around Siusi in the Dolomites.
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  • A cable car disappears into the clouds below Aiguille du Midi.
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  • An aerial tramway to Zugspitz, Germany's tallest peak in the Alps.
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  • Artists paint the walls of Imagination Station, a house across from Detroit's abandoned train depot.
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  • A boat on the Detroit River against the skyline of Windsor, Canada.
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  • A biker cruises tree lined Espanola Way in South Beach.
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  • Hiding behind a jute fence, a cowboy watches as a helicopter drives wild horses into a trap. A “Judas” horse that is trained to run into a corral dupes the frightened horses into following. A gate slams shut and they are captured in a Bureau of Land Management roundup.
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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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  • A fisherman tries his luck at the Golden Gate Bridge.
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  • Coal trains move through a railyard on a foggy morning.
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  • A woman arranges items on a car to sell at a roadside flea market. West Virginians have always lived with the backdrop of the coal train passing by and money has gone out of town on that train—it is no coincidence that some of the poorest people in the US live in coal country. <br />
One of the main poverty issues of Appalachia stems from the fact that the employed population makes less money that others in the U.S. which was a trade off for other assets like a rich family life.
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  • The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs through the Alaskan wilderness connecting the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska, U.S., with the harbor at Valdez, 800 miles to the south. Half of the pipeline is elevated to prevent the heated oil in it from thawing the permafrost and to allow wildlife to pass more easily under it. The pipeline is also cooled by refrigerant coils that keep them from transmitting heat into the thaw-sensitive permafrost. The pipeline pumps 47,000 gallons of oil a month.
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  • A lone truck moves down the Dalton Highway also known as the "haul road" running 414 miles north to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. Built during construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s, this mostly gravel highway travels through rolling, forested hills, across the Yukon River and Arctic Circle, through the rugged Brooks Range, and over the North Slope to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • Hundreds of cars line up to pay a toll on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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  • Headlights and brake lights illuminate the darkened road at dusk as traffic moves both directions through customs at the Texas and Mexico border. Commercial trucks and private vehicles cross one of the four international bridges that connect Laredo and Nuevo Laredo over the Rio Grande River.
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  • Street scenes of Beijing.
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  • Intersection of Number 1 Shimen Road and Middle Yanan Road.
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  • A man rides his bike underneath octopus interchange in Shanghai.
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  • Xujiahui shopping area of Shanghai.
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  • A driver's eyes are reflected in a rear view mirror.
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  • Scott Circle seen from a hotel window.
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  • A Masai child waves to tourists.
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  • Tourists photograph lions from a jeep while on safari.
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