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  • Reflections in windows of the lighthouse at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.
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  • Two Australian Aborigine women looking out of large glass windows.
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  • View of a church through the steamy windows of a restaurant.
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  • Three Australian Aborigines seen through windows in a van.
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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 street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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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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  • In curlers, B&B manager Delta Craft looks out a window.
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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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  • Window shopping outside of the Palace Hotel.
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  • A farm woman takes a break from baking biscuits and taps on a window to get the attention of her nephew. Ladin village of LaVal is small and the people speak their own ethnic language in this isolated region of the Dolomites. They also speak German and Italian.
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  • A young lady mans the ticket window at the Sun Pictures theater.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people is reflected in a window.
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  • Monday is laundry day at Val Mustair.  Nuns working to hang clothes to dry in the sun are reflected in windows overlooking the Christian convent courtyard. A world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site founded in the 8th century, the convent is home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century. Eleven make their home behind closed walls, living a life of commitment to poverty and celibacy. Each nun has her work but they come together for prayer and meals. Eleven of the nuns who live there speak a variation of the Romanche language.
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  • Reflected windows arranged with designer bags, a shopkeeper watches for tourists in the upscale St. Moritz Prada store. Luxury shops and boutiques attract clientele and customers eager for the glitz of trendy designs.
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  • Pacific Ocean view at seaside Puerto Caliche restaurant where workers reflected in windows decorate for a dinner party with balloons. La Portada is an offshore stack eroded into a natural arch located north of Antofagasta, Chile.
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  • A young woman mans the ticket window at the Sun Pictures theater.
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  • Onlookers watch as a model is reflected in a window at an interview for a fashion show.
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  • With construction booming, there is a joke that the "crane" is the official bird of China.  <br />
A coal power plant comes online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego.<br />
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A man walking by a window looks down on China International Automobile Exhibition in Guangzhou, one of the largest auto shows on the planet.
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  • Shopkeepers watch out the window of a jewelry store in Hong Kong. <br />
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Gold is highly valued and extremely malleable. One ounce can be spread out over 100 square feet. It is too soft and too scarce for most uses. Almost ninety percent of gold is used for adornment or money.
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  • An elderly woman has a front-window view of a Good Friday procession.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • A man eating ice cream on the front porch of an old general store in Lorman Mississippi.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • Camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest.
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  • An American flag is displayed on the front porch of a cabin on Floyd's Island. Campers play cards by lantern light while on a wilderness canoe trip in Okefenokee Swamp. This 4000 acre island is the second largest in the swamp and is only accessible by boat. The stop is a respite from camping outdoors with menacing yellow flies in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia.
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  • Elysee, owner and designer of Zemo Elysee fashion shop with models.<br />
he number of women entrepreneurs in China is growing. About three in ten businesses in China are women owned and, according to the All-China Women’s Federation, women account for one-quarter of total China-based entrepreneurs.
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  • A child plays the piano while a woman instructs in the living room of an apartment.<br />
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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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  • A young woman with a camera taking a picture in a pedestrian shopping area at night.
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  • A model sits waiting to try on clothes and jewelry for an accessory photo shoot.
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  • A young woman sits on the floor while trying on clothes and jewelry for an accessory photo shoot.
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  • A young woman turns on a light in her simple, sparse apartment.
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  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University students in their dorm room. Men share bunk beds in small rooms that are crowded with books, clothes, bicycles.
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  • A stylish woman dressed in roses on a white dress watches Chinese shoppers crowd the mall on escalators and walkways in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • Chinese shoppers crowd narrow aisles of the mall in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • A lighted billboard showing a Chinese couple looms over shoppers at a  mall  in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • A lone denizen at night works in a cubicle at a computer in an office building.
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  • Reflection in the rear-view mirror of a teenage schoolgirl sitting behind her father in a car.
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  • A teenage girl looks at a Chinese graphic novel or "manhu" while commuting to school in a car.
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  • A teenage schoolgirl adjusts her uniform at a desk with a computer. Her portrait hangs on the wall above her.
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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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  • A miniature city is on display in the City Planning Museum just off People’s Square in the Puxi side of Shanghai. Models show not only the buildings that exist, but also those planned for the future.
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  • A man is draped in a cape while he gets a haircut from his daughter-in-law in their high rise apartment.
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  • Chinese shoppers crowd the mall on escalators and walkways in Guangzhou. Young people are great consumers as China moves forward into a modern day society.
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  • City Planning Museum is near People’s Square in the Puxi side of Shanghai. A massive miniature city displays models that  show not only existing buildings, but also those planned for the future.
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  • A man on a computer and two women with a baby on a bed in an adjoining room in a Chinese apartment in Shenzhen.
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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 pair of cuttlefish in a Chinese restaurant tank where customers are attracted to see the fresh fish for a dinner.
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  • Markets line the streets of the Senegal fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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  • A street scene of Pontic Greek people
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  • Onlookers watch demonstration crowds on Istiklal street in Istanbul.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Mother with baby born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A nurse holds up a newborn for excited family members waiting outside.
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  • Maternity ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
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  • The assistant post mistress at a post office.
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  • A photographer poses with an imitation polar bear.
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  • Glacier Express train in the Swiss Alps between Sedrun and Andermatt.
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  • Students hang out near college campus.
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  • People sitting outside a bar in the Over the Rhine district of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  • A woman looks out from the Cape Florida Lighthouse, rebuilt in 1847.
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  • A bachelorette party waits for taxis on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • Morning sunlight reflections dapple W. Adams Street near Berghoff restaurant.
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  • A nun walks through the garden dusted with snow before the planting season begins at Val Mustair, a world-famous Benedictine Convent and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Swiss Alps.  Founded in the 8th century, it has been home to Benedictine nuns since the 12th Century.
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  • A man removes a chandelier from the family home as they complete their move. An encroaching mountaintop removal mine created noise and dust 24 hours a day and seven days a week forcing them to leave. It made life unbearable, so the home they build and planned to live in their entire life was sold to the mining company.
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  • Interior of the renovated West Baden Springs Hotel.
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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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  • At Sunnyside, a former home of Washington Irving, bare vines twine around a win dow bathed in the golden light of a sunset.
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  • Porch of the Bolduc House Museum with antique chairs and rakes.
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  • A cart loaded with suitcases at a train station.
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  • A zero waste store and restaurant in Paris, France.
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  • A 10-year-old boy reflected in a mirror drives a tractor behind two harvesters working in a corn field in Kansas.
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  • A students cleans a classroom at a school in Ileret, Kenya.
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  • The Catholic mission in Lokichar.
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  • Rear view mirror inside a car driving down a street in the remote town of Oktyabrsky.
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  • The remote town of Oktyabrsky.<br />
is small town built on the fish industry on the west coast of Kamchatka or the mouth of the Bolshaya River in the Ust Bolsheretsk district. The Russian community was founded solely because of fishing, and the population of a little over 2,000 doubles in the summer.
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  • The main fish market street in Petropavlovsk sells Pacific Steelhead, which has been on the Russian Red Book of endangered species since 1983. Even though military, police, and government officials charge through this street all day long, and it is illegal, this endangered salmon is sold with impunity.
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  • A glowing gold jewelry store in Kolkota reflects sellers in the mirrors who are waiting for customers.
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  • Homes damaged and knocked down by surface mining blasting. The gold mining company never compensated the residents from the damage incurred in 1986.
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  • Staff at Endulen Hospital, the only Masai hospital in the area.
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  • Men standing around a truck while women wade in a flooded roadway.
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  • A roadside conversation and view through a mud-spattered windshield.
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  • An artistic view of trees through rain-drenched glass.
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  • View through a cracked windshield of a man checking his vehicle.
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  • An altar boy holds a candle inside a dimly-lit church.
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  • A gas station in Harappa.
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  • A doctor and a patient at a health clinic.
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  • Setting up a health clinic and way station for supplies in Kasoa.
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  • A man eating on the front porch of an old store.
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  • Maternity Ward at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.  Head of OB/GYN was taught by Jotham Musinguzi who became head of Population and Development Dept. for the government.  Jotham recently retired because he did not agree with the current president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Museveni has a military background and just wants to get BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Jotham said he wants to bump Uganda's population up to 60M before he even starts to worry about infrastructure for all these people. Uganda is about 30M now.  About half of Uganda's population is under 15 and life expectancy is about 50.  Population has doubled from 1990 to now.
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  • Muleshoe, Texas is only one of the small towns that struggle in rural Texas where the water has been mined out by irrigation. All you have to do is look at Google Earth and you see the swath of brown earth where Muleshoe is on the map.
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  • Three generations play in the home they share. Three young boy lies on the floor mesmerized by a toy train on a wooden track while two women, his mother an grandmother, watch him play.
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  • A woman holds a baby while walking through the door of an adjoining room in a Chinese apartment.
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  • A woman works out on a treadmill with a view onto the city of Guangzhou. Health clubs are surging in popularity, partly as an antidote to work stress. The Total Fitness Club, with 11 branches in Guangzhou, offers six kinds of yoga, and classes in salsa and pole dancing.
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