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  • A teenage schoolgirl adjusts her uniform.
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  • Adjusting the uniforms of guards at the Palais de Fortune development.
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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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  • A teenage schoolgirl sits in a car reading a comic book.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl sits in a car.
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  • At the check-out of the first Sam's Club store in China.
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  • At the check-out of a Sam's Club store in China.
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  • Matador faces a bull in Peru's oldest bullring, Plaza de Archo in Rímac, a Lima suburb. Red cape flying, sword drawn, the costumed man faces a close call with the angry beast. Bullfighting remains a passion for many Peruvians who revel in its pomp and pageantry--and its inherent danger.
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  • A fish tank separates patrons from the kitchen at a restaurant on East Nanjing Road | Shanghai, China
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  • A male figure entices people into a Beijing chain restaurant.
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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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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • A bellhop at a boutique hotel.
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  • This is outside of Total Fitness Club in the mall in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. There are 900 million cell phones in China and the West has long predicted that economic growth would eventually bring democracy. As James Mann points out in his new book, The China Fantasy, the idea that China will evolve into a democracy as its middle class grows continues to underlie the U.S.’s China policy, providing the central rationale for maintaining close ties with what is, after all, an unapologetically authoritarian regime. But China’s comfort class could shatter such long-held assumptions. As the chief beneficiaries of China’s economic success, young professionals are more and more tied up in preserving the status quo. The last thing they want is a populist politician winning over the country’s hundreds of millions of have-nots on a rural-reform, stick-it-to-the-cities agenda. All of which means democracy isn’t likely to come to China anytime soon.
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  • A day and boarding school in the Nakulabye neighborhood of Kampala.
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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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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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  • Children in a parade commemorating the opening of Parliament in 1920.
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  • This is a meeting of the “farmer” capitalist millionaires in Huaxi Village (Farmers Village), a model farm for the last 45 years. Even though they are the collective ideal of the capitalist model, they still dress in Mao-ish style outfits and make decisions for the 80 businesses in a socialist forum.<br />
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These “model farmers” were capitalists before it was allowed in China. They started factories, but worked in them secretly (no windows). When government officials came around, all the workers ran out into the fields and pretended to be peasants. They became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. Huaxi Village eventually went bankrupt.
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  • The Fortune Land International Hotel has embraced the boutique hotel concept of the U.S., but on steroids. Giant mushrooms hang from the lobby ceiling above strange-looking and not always comfortable chair-pods.
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  • All over China, young architects design buildings that are just experiments: throw in a bit of classical modern, a little Prairie style, a few Roman columns. This restaurant with the longest name I saw in China, decided one day they would just photograph the interior of the restaurant with all the customers and then have it printed on huge canvas sheets so it feels like you are sitting inside the restaurant – inside the restaurant.
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  • A spa employee at the Mission Hills Golf Club.
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  • At the Mission Hills Golf Club, the largest in the world.
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  • The Guardian Building doorman admires the vaulted Art Deco ceiling.
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  • U.S. Border patrol officers take a break at the Montana/Canadian border after riding their trained mustangs in the rough backcountry.
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  • Mustangs wade through thick brush carrying U.S. Border patrol officers who make their way through rugged backcountry. The riders find the former wild horses sure-footed and sturdy in the mountainous region.
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  • Nurses attend a patient in a volunteer built clinic.
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  • Procession of the Old Chatham Hunt Club to the village square for the blessing of the hounds.
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  • Flag twirlers in a high school marching band practice their drills.
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  • Zachary Moore is one of the Park Service policemen who manned roadblocks in Yosemite National Park after a visitor shot and wounded a ranger in 1993. Crime often surprises visitors who led their guard down when they are visiting parks.
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  • A  90-year old was the oldest ranger in Yosemite National Park where he began working in 1930. He lived alone in a tent cabin, listened to classical music, read Shakespeare and passionately sang opera. He had John Muir's writings as a young boy and was inspired to study botany, zoology and geology. He continued leading interpretive walks five days a week in Tuolomne Meadows and afterwards, relaxed smoking his pipe with a cup of coffee.
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  • Students of the public school in Endulen.
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  • A policeman locking a road gate during a heavy rain storm.
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  • At Boston National Historical Park, 15 rangers shared one coed shower until th elavatory was remodeled.
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  • Gonnison Beach is the only nude beach operated by the National Park Service. It provides ranger patrols and lifeguards. Park Ranger John A. Cahill Jr. talks with nude sunbather.
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  • A young woman on the phone and a guard at the steel mill in Huaxi.
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  • A young woman on the phone and a guard at the steel mill in Huaxi.
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  • A guard at an upscale gated housing development.
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  • A guard stands outside a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • A resident exits a villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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