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  • A young girl sits with her parents at the dinner table in their home. 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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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman removes the fin from a shark while processing the days catch onboard the boat.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.
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  • The kitchen counter looks like a still life of oranges, a knife and cutting boards in Convent Saint John in Val Mustair.
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  • Suri women building a hut in a village outside of Tulgit.
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  • A freshly slain blue duiker or small antelope and a machete in a basket. Pygmies hunt meat for their diet in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Pagan animal sacrifice beneath 12th century tower in Svaneti.
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  • Samoan workers trudge through vegetation carrying machetes and bundles made of woven pandanus leaves.
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  • Rug workers using knives similar to Harappan artifacts.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman wields a sharp knife to remove the fin from a shark. Fish are caught and processed onboard while out working for weeks at a time.<br />
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Sharks are down to 10% of historical populations and a large reason for that is an appetite for shark fin soup in China and other parts of Asia.<br />
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Foreign trawlers and an expanding fishmeal industry are increasingly threatening the livelihood of Senegalese fishermen, forcing many to migrate to Europe.
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  • Senevisa fish processing plant in Dakar processes cuttlefish brought in from artisanal fishermen. The local market consumes only three percent of the production of this plant.<br />
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Artesianal fishermen sell products like octopus, squid and cuttlefish. The prime fish and cuttlefish leave this plant in Styrofoam fresh packs at 5pm in Dakar and are at the Paris Orly airport at 6am.<br />
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Fish follows the money – If the Japanese pay the most for cuttlefish then it is shipped there overnight. Senevisa is the largest trawler/fish exporter working out of Senegal.
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  • Stacks of plates are put out for morning breakfast.
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  • A couple enjoys a private moment at an outdoor restaurant.
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  • Fish sandwich and fries at Scotty's in Coconut Grove.
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  • A worker spreads out cheese cloth while making Alkase cheese in a copper kettle. A signature characteristic of Swiss cheeses is the use of copper. In fact, to be called gruyère, Emmentaler, raclette, or even French Comté, these cheeses must be made using a copper vat because it distributes heat evenly.
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  • Women set a table with food for a pitch in dinner for their family reunion. Reunions are a long standing tradition for families in rural areas.
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  • The Miller and Caudill family prepare string beans from the summer garden for canning.
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  • A portrait of a young Chinese woman eating with chopsticks.
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  • A family eating dinner together.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • The kitchen of a seafood restaurant in Hong Kong.<br />
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According to WWF figures, Hong Kong has the second-highest per-capita seafood consumption in Asia, and is the world’s eighth-largest seafood consumer.<br />
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Damaged by decades of human activity, Hong Kong’s rich marine ecosystem requires concerted conservation effort.
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  • Caudill family members rest on the front porch and yard when they gather on weekends to work in the garden and maintain their homestead. <br />
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It took several years and a lot of money and determination, but kin of the Caudill family fought to keep their family homestead on Mud River from being taken over by the St. Louis-based Arch Coal Company. Nearly swindled out of their homestead, they battled all the way to the West Virginia Supreme Court where they finally won their case.<br />
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For 100 years, Miller’s wife and family owned the 75-acre tract that includes a farmhouse, built in 1920, several small barns and a garden. John Caudill, a coal miner who was blinded in a mining accident in the 1930s, and his wife, Lydia Caudill, raised 10 children in the home. <br />
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Arch Coal wanted to tear down the family’s ancestral home because it stood in the way of the company’s plans to expand its 12,000-acre Hobet 21 mountaintop removal complex. Hobet 21 produced about 5.2 million tons of coal, making it among the largest surface mines in the state. Mines like Hobet yield one ton of coal for every 16 tons of terrain that is displaced.<br />
Under Hobet’s plans, statements from Arch submitted in court say that “ a valley fill and an impoundment pond would destroy the inundate the farmhouse and outbuilding and bury the immediate surrounding land under the valley fill.” A lower court agreed with the company, but in the end, the family won.<br />
The mining operations have expanded to surround the Caudill property.
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  • A woman cooks a pot of octopi over an open fire for the Octopus Festival in Spain.
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  • A fish is displayed on a plate inside a restaurant window.<br />
Spain is virtually surrounded by the sea and eating fish and shellfish has been at the heart of Spanish cuisine for millennia. In fact, Spain trails only Japan in fish consumption per capita.
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  • A Filipino worker takes care of an elderly  Italian woman.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A waiter serves tea to guests on a silver tray in the posh Badrutt's Palace Hotel which opened in 1896 and has welcomed celebrities like Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin. Sant Moritz can be formal and elegant, drawing fashionable tourists.
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  • A waiter unfolds linen table cloths as he prepares a dining room for the evening in a plush hotel in glitzy, St. Moritz. Badrutt's Palace hotel is an iconic, luxury destination known for amenities and fine service. Huge floral arrangements and framed oil paintings create a formal elegance for tourists.<br />
The ornate Palace hotel opened in 1896 and over the years has welcomed celebrities like Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin.
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  • Wearing heavy, white fur costumes passed down through generations, carnival revelers stop for a drink in a local establishment. In Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest town, Kurentovanje is a popular festival drawing large crowds who parade in the street ringing large cow bells.
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  • Men cook ramps in the church kitchen during spring ramps dinner while women greet families who gather at long tables for the traditional feast.
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  • Business men take a 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. The waitress wearing a short red dress 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 diner watches people cross El Zócalo, Mexico City's grandiose main square, from the elegant Gran Hotel's rooftop restaurant. Built atop ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, the zócalo is now surrounded by sprawling Spanish colonial architecture, the most prominent being the Metropolitan Cathedral.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • At a wedding party, Kara guests of all ages are offered sorghum beer.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A young woman eating in a communal dining room.
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  • Inside a couple's apartment in Beijing.
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  • A family interacting at dinnertime.
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  • Backlighting through yellow curtains at a restaurant in Shanghai.
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  • A water fight at China Folk Culture Villages.
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  • Mass-market jewelry takes shape at a goldsmith's workshop in Kolkata. The delicate handwork is intricate with inlays and designs.
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  • Turkish coal miners enjoy a break from their hard work.
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  • The bar scene buzzes at Michael Symon's Roast, a James Beard Award-winning restaurant.
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  • Family gathers around the table at the homestead for a summer lunch with corn and tomatoes from the garden.
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  • A family works together snapping green beans at the Caudill-Miller family homestead.<br />
It is a summertime ritual for everyone to put up produce from the garden.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • An afternoon in an opulent home in Huaxi.
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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 couple in a restaurant decorated with fish tanks.
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  • Cleaning an apartment before dinner.
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  • Two Ladin men share the news over a cup of morning coffee in a restaurant in the village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • A waiter prepares a dining room by freshening the floral arrangements in a plush hotel in the Swiss Alps. The elegant Badrutt's Palace opened in 1896, and over the years has welcomed tourists and celebrities like Alfred Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • A young woman looking at her cell phone at the Baby Face Club.
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  • A toast, with shots of Vodka, marks the end of the Russian Geological Society's expedition to Siberia's Putorana Plateau.   These men and women repeatedly tra vel to Siberia's Putorana Plateau to increase the world's knowledge this remote , uninhabited region.
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  • A couple at at a table visit with a friend and his dog.
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  • Mother teaches her daughter to cook traditional foods in their family's restaurant in the small Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Friends gather to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • A family prays at sunset near the campfire at the contest compound.
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