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  • The Baseco Slums in Manila is known as the Recycling and Plastic Waste Industry hub of the Philippines. Trucks loaded with plastic trucks on the right side of the frame are caught up in congestion in Manila traffic which ranks as some of the worst in the world.  Infrastructure problems, high population and accidents are some of the causes.
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  • View through a muddy windshield shows trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • Trash trucks on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • View through a muddy windshield shows trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • Drivers wait for their turn to compete on a mud bog race with trucks and ATV's on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Contractors prepare to load trucks with wild horses they capture following a round up.
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  • Arriving for the camel contest in cars, trucks and by camel.
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  • Entrants arriving for the camel contest in cars and trucks.
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  • Haul trucks carry rock waste at Batu Hijau, an open pit copper and gold mine. The second largest mine in Indonesia has a tropical monsoonal climate with high rainfall, and an extended arid season with almost no rainfall. Other environmental considerations include significant seismic activity, with the associated risk of tsunamis, and acid rock drainage, not to mention the existence on site of an endangered species, the yellow-crested cockatoo.
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  • Aerials of Batu Hijau gold mine and Benete seaport and concentrator and pipeline that takes tailings into ocean trench. Trucks carry 240 tons of rock as they wind their way up through a maze of roads and terraced slopes..
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock are monitored on screens and windows at a copper and gold mine.
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  • A scarf and safety best are worn by an Islamic woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine. She drives a truck that has 240 tons of rock that will yield about nine ounces of gold.
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  • A hat seller helps load a stack of straw hats onto a truck at a market that sells flowers for Day of the Dead fiesta.<br />
Heavily-loaded trucks carry red Terciopelo flowers to celebrate Mexico’s premier fiesta. Atlixco is the flower capital of Mexico exporting roses and gladiolas from the state of Puebla.
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  • The first Camel Beauty contest was in March of 2007 and this area was just a dusty piece of desert on the edge of the empty quarter.  About an hour outside of Abu Dhabi the Al Dhafra Festival put on by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage is under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck. They need about 100 gallons of water they truck home for cooking and bathing.<br />
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Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • Empty containers fill the back of a pick up truck as a  family with a dry well carries water for their home use in five-gallon buckets. They  and 30 other families rely on this water for cooking and bathing since they no longer have running water in their home in Clovis, New Mexico.<br />
A $160 million pipeline project from the Ute reservoir may help relieve the situation although communities are still finding ways to curb consumption.
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  • A family with a dry well carry water in five-gallon buckets and jugs in the back of their pickup truck.<br />
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Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • A woman carries carries buckets into her house.  The family has a dry well and hauls water in jugs and five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck for cooking and bathing.<br />
Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • A neighborhood street where a family with a dry well loads up five-gallon buckets to carry water in the back of their pickup truck for home use. <br />
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They are among 30 families affected by the amount of agricultural use of water from the Ogallala Aquifer. 88,000 wells across the nearby Texas panhandle pump 200 gallons a minute. <br />
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These families rely on around 100 gallons a day for their needs and are hopeful for the pipeline from a reservoir 100 miles away that is being built will relieve the situation.
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  • A hose snakes through the front yard where a family with a dry well hauls water. They fill five-gallon buckets and jugs in the back of their pickup truck for their personal use.<br />
Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck. It requires a lot of time and work to bring home enough for 100 gallons a day for their personal use to cook and bath.
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  • A family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck. They need 100 gallons a day to meet their needs. <br />
30 families can no longer get water from their wells since the Ogallala aquifer is running low after being pumped for agricultural use.
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  • Children in a family with a dry well hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck.<br />
Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • A mother and her son hand over buckets and jugs of water into the house. The family has a dry well and hauls water in five-gallon buckets in the back of their pickup truck for their personal use. Around 30 families are effected by heavy agricultural and industrial use of the shared Ogallala Aquifer.
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  • Sunrise aerial photo showing traffic crossing Juarez-Lincoln International, one of four bridges over the Rio Grande River located in the cities Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, that connects the United States with Mexico.<br />
The Pan-American Highway is a network of road that passes through the America's many diverse climates and ecological types – ranging from dense jungles to arid deserts.
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  • A scarf and safety best are worn by an Islamic woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine. She drives a truck that has 240 tons of rock that will yield about nine ounces of gold.
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  • A ranch hand opens a chute to load wild horses into a truck transporting them to a holding facility after a round up.
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  • Giraffe running across park road in front of truck.
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  • Two sisters gather around a blue truck.
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  • Logging truck hauls timber in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Dogs faithfully wait in the back of a pickup truck for their owners to return from a mud bogging event on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A workman on a flatbed truck unloads a large storage tank at a gas drilling site. The petroleum industry has been exploring for oil and gas in Wyoming for over 135 years. In 1884 the first oil well was drilled southeast of Lander.
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  • A large industrial mining truck carries a load of coal from Black Thunder, the largest surface mine in the U.S. Located in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, the mine extracts coal that is transported by rail to power plants in the East.
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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • Salted fish are packed onto a truck to go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • A truck that hauls waste rock is washed at Batu Hijau mine. The fleet is a part of a large gold mine operation in Indonesia.
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  • Aborigine children sit on a truck after arriving at a swimming hole.
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  • A truck stuck up to its axles in mud on a flooded road.
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  • A truck stuck in a muddy road with people standing about watching.
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  • Local people try to extract their truck stuck in the monsoon mud.
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  • Chained-up hounds, anxious to be part of the fun, watch their owner wave at a p assing truck.
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  • Man loading bag of cement onto a truck.
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  • A truck stuck up to its axles in mud on a flooded road near Wyndham, Australia. The driver is attempting to place rock and tree limbs under the tire for a more firm foundation to drive out of the muck.
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  • Chained-up hounds, anxious to be part of the fun, watch their owner wave at a passing truck.
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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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  • Coal dust hangs in the air as a truck hauls rock out of the site to dump in into a valley fill.
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  • A truck with a mud caked tire in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for her journey home.
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  • Maintenance workers tend to a gigantic wheel of a truck that hauls hundred of tons of waste rock at a gold mining operation.
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  • Bulldozers fill trucks with excess rock at a small mountaintop removal site in Man, West Virginia, where a small crew is mining coal in a site in Logan County that was left by a large coal company as rubble. Mine operator Gordon Justice said, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."<br />
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Large mining operations are only visible from the air, although coal and debris are removed using enormous earth-moving machines known as draglines that stand 22 stories tall and can hold 24 compact cars in its bucket. The machines can cost up to $100 million, but are favored by coal companies because they can do the work of hundreds of employees. A small operation like this one can keep 17 employees working for five years and making good wages.
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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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  • A wild horse enthusiast is greeted by a band of mustangs that recognize her truck.
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  • Truckers haul supplies across Wyoming’s Red Desert leaving a wind-blown trail of dry dust. The boom of oil and gas drilling brings heavy vehicles to roads originally meant for the occasional pick up truck.
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  • Truckers haul supplies across Wyoming’s Red Desert leaving a wind-blown trail of dry dust. The boom of oil and gas drilling brings heavy vehicles to roads originally meant for the occasional pick up truck.
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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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  • A man and his dogs drive by in a pickup truck to check out strangers in Coffman Cove. The community is located in Prince of Wales, Hyder County in Alaska with a 2020 population of 168. It is the 110th largest city in Alaska and the 17,162nd largest city in the United States.
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  • A farm worker drives his pickup truck into the field to herd cows to the barn for morning milking in the rural, northern Austria's Alpine region.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • Sections of an oil and natural gas pipeline is stockpiled near Sobolevo.<br />
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The pipeline cuts through the marine environment, and across the shelf and through many of the salmon rivers in the country. Once completed, this will destroy river environments and open up access roads for more poaching. The new government in Kamchatka is willing to risk the salmon fisheries, which generate 30 percent of all the fish caught in Russia and 40 percent of the income, for a fraction of the natural gas and oil that exists in plentiful amounts elsewhere in Russia. Kamchatka used to be divided into two provinces with two local governments. These were combined recently with the stated objective of resource development. By resources they mean oil and gas drilling on the Kamchatka shelf with a pipeline to the port in PK. The Kamchatka league of independent experts deemed that 70 percent of all rivers crossed by the pipeline are permanently degraded for long-term fish production.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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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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  • Matriarch of a western family has a ride along canine companion.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade grounds gate.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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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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  • Infrastructure near the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy passing 11.6 kilometers under the mountain.<br />
The tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps and was first opened in 1965. A more than seven mile cut was made through Mont Blanc mountain linking Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • Lights blur as traffic in the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects France and Italy in the Alps. First opened in 1965, the more than seven mile cut through Mont Blanc mountain links Chamonix with Courmayeur.
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  • Elevated view of a small mine operation finding coal after a larger company left. The owner of this operation stated that "One man's trash is another man's treasure." His equipment works on a mountain top coal mine.
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  • Roger Will prepares his fields for planting beans.
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  • Contractors and BLM horse specialists plan a wild horse roundup because of a lawsuit by The Rock Springs Grazing Association.
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  • Children play atop a truckload of dried fish in the village of Selicho.
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  • A bride and groom drive away in a vehicle decorated with balloons as party goers light sparklers to celebrate.
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  • A roadside conversation and view through a mud-spattered windshield.
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  • Artists paint the walls of Imagination Station, a house across from Detroit's abandoned train depot.
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  • An animal activist watches a young mustang foal roll in the dirt. They were out for a walk when the young foal stopped and dropped. <br />
Horses roll for pleasure and to clean their coats with sand and soil.
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  • Workers remove invasive melaleuca trees from wetland prairies.
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  • Border collies are trained to help manage sheep.
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  • Border collies on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Coal trains line up side by side move through a railyard on a foggy morning in Appalachia.
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  • House with swan flower planter sits on a post above a wagon wheel in front yard that marks the driveway.
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  • A man hoes neat rows of potatoes in the family garden at Mud River.
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  • Hundreds of cars line up to pay a toll on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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  • The Rohe family picks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • Mexican Army patrols a foggy stretch of the Pan American Highway that winds through Los Mármoles National Park in Hidalgo state. Tucked in the rugged Sierra Madre Oriental south of Tamazunchale, the park is renown for its sheer marble cliffs and thick pine forest.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers looking for plastics begin their daily rounds at the dump.
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  • Cowboys with hats wait on horses to participate in the Beef Empire Days Rodeo, a long standing tradition in Garden City, Kansas.
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  • Fishermen set nets in the evening.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • A man leads a baby camel through the chaos of four wheel drive vehicles.
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  • Cars that will be prizes for winning camels line the parking area.
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  • Cars that will be prizes for winning camels line the parking area.
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