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  • Drivers compete on a mud bog course with all-terrain vehicles.
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  • Drivers of four-wheeling, off-road vehicles compete while sliding through a slippery race course of muck at a weekend mud bogging contest on Prince of Wales Island. Competitors try to beat the clock as they drive through a water-logged muddy course.
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  • A man leads a baby camel through the chaos of four wheel drive vehicles.
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  • Couples ride in a long line of flower-decorated convertibles for a mass wedding in Shanghai. They aspire to the ideal of the billboard above them—the one-child family. <br />
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According to the 2010 census 118.06 boys are born for every 100 girls, and experts warn of increased social instability should this trend continue. For the population born between 1900 and 2000, it is estimated that there could be 35.59 million fewer females than males.  In Beijing, for example, newly prosperous residents are snapping up automobiles at a rate of 1,000 a day. The number of vehicles on the capital’s sclerotic roads has doubled in the past five years, to 3 million, or about a million more vehicles than in all of New York City.
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  • Man on an off-road vehicle drives home after stones and debris turned the flooded road into rubble during a summer rain. Small streambeds are dumped with the excess rock and dirt that the length of the Ohio River is filled in. The result is a threat to clean water and the biodiversity of the ecosystem. Flash flooding occurs where it never has before.<br />
Like a cancerous mutation of strip mining, entire mountaintops are blasted away to obtain a small seam of coal. Unwanted rock is pushed into valleys and streams, destroying natural watersheds.
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  • Recreational vehicles line a mile-long section of undeveloped beach at Redwood National Park.
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  • A few cars make a traffic jam on a rainy afternoon at the main intersection in Coffman, Cove, Alaska, population 200.<br />
What began as a logging town on Prince of Wales Island is mostly made up of people who stayed on when the industry declined. Boats and off road vehicles are plentiful and a road connects the community to other parts of the island.
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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 bride and groom drive away in a vehicle decorated with balloons as party goers light sparklers to celebrate.
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  • A four-wheel drive vehicle crossing a flooded road.
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  • Two men working to extricate their vehicle from deep mud.
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  • View through a cracked windshield of a man checking his vehicle.
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  • A bride hangs on for a four-wheel drive wild ride over boulders and rough slick rock trails near Moab, Utah. The Bureau of Land Managements designates specific trails for off-road vehicle riders like this who although dressed in traditional white, wants to be married in an untraditional way in the wilderness during a Jeep Safari.<br />
Most riders stick to BLM's loosely enforced straight-and-narrow rules are plentiful, but thousands more disregard the rules, answering the call of their combustion engines to chart new paths through roadless areas which had great ecological consequences.
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  • A bride  smooths our her long, white dress after a four-wheel drive wild ride over boulders and slick rock to reach a spot for the wedding near Moab, Utah. The Bureau of Land Managements designates specific trails for off-road vehicle riders in the wilderness during the annual Easter Weekend Jeep Safari.
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  • Bandit-style bandannas shield law abiders from dust on a well-worn trail in the Fisher Towers region of the Castle Valley near Moab, Utah. Off-road vehicle riders who stick to BLM's loosely enforced straight-and-narrow rules are plentiful, but thousands more disregard the rules, answering the call of their combustion engines to chart new paths through roadless areas. The degradation from rogue ATV riders has growing ecological consequences.
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  • A model peers out the door of a red vehicle at the annual China International Automobile Exhibition also known as Guangzhou International Motor Show.
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  • A model poses leaning over a vehicle at the annual China International Automobile Exhibition also known as Guangzhou International Motor Show.
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  • A model's green dress is reflected in a vehicle's side mirror at the 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Photographers huddle together to see a model pose out the back door of a red vehicle at the annual China International Automobile Exhibition also known as Guangzhou International Motor Show.
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  • A model peers over the windshield of a vehicle at the annual China International Automobile Exhibition also known as Guangzhou International Motor Show.The 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Outmaneuvering rush hour gridlock, motorcycles rank as the vehicle of choice for many Santiago commuters. Dressed in a business suit and tie with a helmet, a Chilean businessman parks his motorcycle on a side street with lines of other bikes. Chile's bustling capital and largest city thrives on manufacturing, finance and trade.
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  • The mud-choked road to Beni is nearly impassable in any vehicle during the wet season.
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  • Some 40,000 train buffs a year pull out of Cumberland on a 16-mile scenic ride to Frostburg.
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  • A policeman locking a road gate during a heavy rain storm.
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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 man boards an icy lift up to Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak in the Wetterstein Mountains. Three glaciers flank the mountain that is just over 9,700 feet high. The first ascent was in 1820, but today cable cars transport skiers and sightseers to the top for a view that is obstructed on snowy white-out on this day.
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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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  • A 1925 Model T drives down an old strip of National Road.
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  • Bygone atmosphere of aging alleys and jumbled rooflines characterizes Valparaiso's older neighborhoods. Victorian-era funicular railways run up and down the port city's notoriously steep hillsides behind a building where a man sits in a window.
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  • A professional woman stands on a subway car among commuters in Guangzhou.
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  • A chaotic scene where commuters jam in tightly to ride a crowded subway car in Guangzhou.
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  • Young commuters on the Barcelona metro.
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  • An accordion player in the Barcelona metro.
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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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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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  • Coal trains move through a railyard on a foggy morning.
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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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  • Carolyn Rossi Copeland takes her twin daughters to her work in New York City fr om their home in Garrison, more than an hour's commute one way on the train. Th e route passes along the Hudson River.
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  • A photographer on assignment on a crowded train in Mumbai.
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  • Fish inspectors take a break during their pursuit of salmon poachers.<br />
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A warden shares tea with the poachers in their kitchen tent. There are a lot of unwritten rules. Fish wardens know that it costs $10,000 to get into a poaching camp in Kamchatka, and $10,000 to get back out by helicopter with your catch. The wardens understand that if they destroy fishing gear and caviar production facilities, they have harmed their neighbors enough. And they also can’t afford $10,000 to get criminals back by helicopter for prosecution.<br />
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The poachers know this, and know not to bring any kind of identity papers with them because it is possible for them to be prosecuted with their passports.  The kitchen survives the burn so men can feed themselves. The poachers go free, but have to sit and wait for their helicopter, empty handed which is why the wardens don’t burn their kitchen or sleeping areas.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks loaded with a boat and supplies as they pursue salmon poachers who are the greatest threat to salmon in Russia.
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  • Fish inspectors drive surplus tanks to pursue salmon poachers who are the biggest threat to salmon in Russia.
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  • Skiers dressed in fashionable clothing wait in a lift line in St. Moritz which has been referred to as "Europe's winter playground."
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  • Children play with unexploded tank shells.
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  • Ferndale's Greek Investment Company, a cafe, exterior view.
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  • Men in blue work uniforms stand in a garden watching couples ride in a long line of flower-decorated convertibles for a mass wedding in Shanghai.
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  • Camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest.
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  • A single white car travels north on the Pan American Highway as it follows the oceans and coastline through desert sands along Peru's Pacific coast.
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  • Exercise on hospital roof top near Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • Family on bicycle outside Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • Fortune teller outside Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • Schoolbus to gradeschool near Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • Medical care at Wuhan's Iron and Steel plant.
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  • A couple embraces in the back of a convertible. Seventy couples in a mass marriage ceremony traveled to Century Park for the Rose Wedding Festival.
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  • A young woman shops at the Carrefours Department Store that is filled with colorful merchandise and signage.
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  • A rear view mirror reflects a model looking through a car window at an automobile exhibition. The 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition attracts young men to see the cars and a model that is reflected in a mirror.
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  • A young woman smiles with her eyes from a partially open car window open in the rain with drops of water on the car's red hood.
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  • A worker helping to prepare for a festival takes a break to sleep in a comfortable chair placed in the middle of a street in Shanghai.
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  • A worker helping to prepare for a festival takes a break to sleep in a comfortable chair placed in the middle of a street in Shanghai.
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  • Shoppers wear pajamas on the street while admiring clothing in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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  • With food ready on the table, a woman sweeps the floor cleaning an apartment before dinner while her husband watches their young child.
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  • Street lights at night illuminate a couple making a wedding photo on a bridge with the Pudong skyline in the background.
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  • A model dressed in white shorts and tall boots sits on a hood of a car while a man admires the headlight at China International Automobile Exhibition. The event began in Guangzhou in 2003 and is one of the largest international auto shows in China. <br />
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This event has an exhibition ground measuring 85,000 square meters and it filled eight exhibition halls. Over 370 exhibitors from 20 other countries and regions, took part in this exhibition, which was covered by more than 1,600 news reporters representing upwards of 510 TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and online media at home and abroad. 120,000 people attended.
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  • Passengers gaze out the windows of a bus in Shanghai. <br />
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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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  • A guard halts a car at an upscale gated housing development as China ramps up security.
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  • A Chinese worker in the lobby of Fortune Land International Hotel which has embraced the boutique hotel concept of the U.S., but on steroids. Giant, colorful mushroom banners hang from the lobby ceiling above strange-looking and not always comfortable chair-pods in Beijing.
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  • Lu  lives with his son and daughter-in-law and their baby in a small apartment.  Lu was sent to prison during the Cultural Revolution and tries to keep pace with today’s values but still has questions about his son’s world. The “little capitalists” that live with their Cultural Revolution parents often have conflicts of ideology. The older generation thinks in a more Confucian way—never rise above your teacher, never rise above your father, others’ needs are more important than your own.
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  • A  young boy poses beside a pallet of sharks in Vigo which has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.<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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  • Freewheeling four-wheelers trek across Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southwestern Utah. Part state park, part Bureau of Land Management wilderness quality land, the dunes are both playground and battleground. ATV riders fight for wide-open access: environmentalists for rare plant and animal species. <br />
The orange/pink color is from the Navajo sandstone layer formed 190 million years ago in the early Jurassic period. High winds pass through the region whipping sand into piles and water seeped down into the sand, carrying minerals with a mineral composition of iron, calcium carbonate, and manganese which gave the rock warm hues.
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  • Lights are strung up in trees above billboards advertising gold jewelry that is highly valued in India.
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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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  • A father takes his son on his roll-aboard suitcase to the bus.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • A vegetable garden in the Brush Park Historic District on a lot where a Victorian mansion once stood.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • Aerial view of a cruise ship that docks at Ketchikan's harbor bringing a city full of tourists for shopping and sightseeing. The once logging town is dependent on the growing tourism industry. Nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Alaska, sometimes doubling a town’s population on a summer day. <br />
The ships travel the Inside Passage, a network of waterways between islands along the coast of Alaska, British Columbia and Washington state. <br />
Travelers can shop for native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former red-light district during the Gold Rush. The Misty Fjords National Monument is one of the area’s major attractions.
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  • Dimly lit tunnels through the Alps allow traffic to avoid snow-covered passes.
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  • Schleichers ride in ornately decorated horse-drawn carriages in a parade that is part of a traditional celebration. Schleichers wear masks and elaborate hats that weigh 50 pounds - quite an ordeal to balance.  Hats are passed down generations and stored in museums.
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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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  • Border collies are trained to help manage sheep.
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  • Introduced Japanese kudzu vines overtake a car in a man's yard.
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  • Families gather outside a small, white-painted church for a ramps dinner. Allium tricoccum, wild leek, wild onion, spring tonic, or most commonly, the ramp is a wild plant that grows in the mountains of Appalachia. It resembles a scallion and tastes like a cross between an onion and garlic and dinners are a long-standing community tradition.
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  • A man walks down the road in Tom Biggs Hollow in Letcher County, Kentucky, while his great grandchildren play nearby.<br />
Lucious Thompson joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth when he found his land disrupted from mining above them. “There’s good mining and there’s bad mining,” Mr. Thompson said. “Mountaintop removal takes the coal quick, 24 hours every day, making my streams disappear, with the blasting knocking a person out of bed and the giant ‘dozers beep-beeping all night so you cannot sleep.”<br />
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Mr. Thompson spoke with the authority of a retired underground miner. Underground miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh, deep workplaces that were far out of sight. Now, the hollow dwellers have become witnesses more than miners as a fast-moving, high-volume process uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills.<br />
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“They make monster funnels of our villages,” said Carroll Smith, judge-executive, the top elected official, here in Letcher County, the location of some of the worst flooded hollows adjoining mountaintop removal sites. “They haven’t been a real good neighbor at all.”<br />
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With underground mining, coal miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh workplaces deep in the ground and far out of sight. With mountaintop removal, a fast, high-volume process that uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills that help define the hollows, the residents have become witnesses more than miners.<br />
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New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/national/11MINE.html
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  • Hundreds of cars line up to pay a toll on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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  • Teenagers in a limousine on their prom night head into New York City.
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  • People stop to watch the setting sun along Skyline Drive, a 105 mile drive along the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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  • A car rounds a curve along a scenic section of the Pan American highway north of Oaxaca in 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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  • Intersection of Number 1 Shimen Road and Middle Yanan Road.
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  • Scott Circle seen from a hotel window.
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  • A family parks an RV in the field during the harvest so they can escape the elements and the bugs while they eat together. Generational farming is more rare as it is hard to make ends meet, especially during a drought. The farm grows drylands wheat which is a variety more drought tolerant.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Arriving for the camel contest in cars, trucks and by camel.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Residents of Khailino, a remote village, ride a motorcycle with sidecar down the unpaved street under Soviet era communication towers.
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  • A dog relaxes in a motorcycle's sidecar.<br />
Kamchatka has remote village life where during the summer, locals race around in ancient former Soviet motorbikes with sidecars. It is normal to see the family dog tagging along.
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  • Koryaksky Volcano looms above Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.<br />
Petropavlovsk surrounds the Avacha Bay Port and the nine volcanoes surround Petropavlovsk make a dramatic backdrop for a parking lot in Kamchatka, Russia.
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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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  • Residents of a remote village  in Kamchatka rush to meet the supply helicopter. Original inhabitants Khailino are indigenous. Dogs run wild in the street and locals on board a motorcycle race to try to get a woman on board to be taken where she can get medical attention. <br />
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In Northern Kamchatka, indigenous Koryak people and Russians came for “Northern money” when the Soviet Union wanted to tame the area. Income paid was eight times more than a similar job in Moscow, so some people figured out how to get all the necessary permits to work. When default happened, no one in the remote outposts received salaries.  People made a living from salmon caviar and created fishing brigades with distribution systems. Living in a very small community of 700 residents, and the temperatures drop to –40° in the winter, everyone works hard to merely survive and are kind to each other.
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  • The gold vault at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, one of twelve regional capital reserve banks in the system and located in the heart of the financial district in downtown Manhattan. <br />
Moving gold bars just a few feet from one storage closet to another can shape the balance of financial power between nations.
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