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  • Young people dance to music at a bar in a district full of clubs that attract night life in Quito.
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  • Young women walk their dog at the Findlay Market in Cincinnati.
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  • Young commuters on the Barcelona metro.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • A father watches his son BBoy dancing, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. Their living room floor is a perfect space to practice difficult hip hop moves.
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  • A father takes to the floor of the living room in their home as he shows his son moves to try when BBoy dancing. Young, urban culture is expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance similar to hip hop.
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  • A father skilled in BBoy dancing helps his son practice difficult move in a Quito park. A young, urban culture celebrates hip hop expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance.
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  • A young adult drinks a flaming cocktail at the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou.
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  • Novices studying to become cloistered nuns take a break from their prayers at Santa Catalina Convent to sing in the garden.<br />
The young, cloistered nuns never leave convent grounds and live a life of contemplation in Arequipa, Peru. Older nuns allow the young women free time once a day to help them adjust to the cloistered, regimented life. Having just left their families they will never see again, the vow of commitment the novices take is a serious lifelong decision.
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  • Young adults enjoying swimming in a water-filled rocky gorge.
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  • Model takes a smoke break backstage as she is styled for a bridal fashion show. Wedding dresses and evening gowns were part of the formal wear shown off to eager young fashionistas in Monterrey, Mexico.
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  • Novices play ball in a courtyard during a short break from the strict everyday life in a cloistered convent at Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa, Peru. Older Catholic nuns allow this scheduled play to help the young nuns adjust more easily to the new rules and a routine: They are always silent, pray seven times a day, and never leave the grounds. Visitors to the convent can attend mass but never see life behind the walls where 23 women ranging in age from 15 to 93 make their home.
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  • Novices studying to be nuns, stop to smell the roses in the flower garden of the cloistered convent, Santa Catalina Convent. Built in the 1580s and enlarged in the 17th century, now 30 nuns live behind the walls in silence and prayer. The young novices are given some free time and activities as they adjust to their cloistered life in the monastery in Peru.
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  • A young Zapotec woman adorned in a flower wreath sits in the shadows during a wedding celebration in the Chagigo neighborhood of Juchitan. Wedding celebrations happen on weekends in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where traditional culture is strong.  Women take leading roles in business and government in the town with the population of approximately 70,000 people.  The Mexican Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire, as resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • Profile of a curious, young, fuzzy mustang foal.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. They typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age, however, and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • An alert, young foal with interesting markings and roan colors is part of a herd of approximately 120 wild horses in the Pryor Mountains. <br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. However, they typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age and evolve into their adult coloration.<br />
The herd range is in the high meadows down through rugged juniper-covered foothills to colorful desert-like badlands that border the green fields of Crooked Creek Valley. Bureau of Land Management's Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in Wyoming.
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  • A young trainer works with a wild horse training him to calmly walk through a pool filled with plastic bottles for the first time.
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  • A young trainer works with a wild horse training him with a gentle calm voice asking him to lie down.
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  • A young trainer works with a wild horse in a gentle manner.
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  • A young wild horse advocate and his mother sat in a congressional office in Washington, DC to lobby against horse slaughter bills.
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  • A young trainer works with a horse training in a gentle manner rewarding him with a scratch on the neck.
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  • A young wild horse advocate stopped a US Representative in the wall way to lobby against horse slaughter bills.
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  • A young wild horse advocate waits in a congressional office in Washington, DC to lobby against horse slaughter bills and support humane treatment of horses.
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  • Fishermen snare a young crocodile.
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  • A horse trainer encourages a reluctant young mustang to come into the water.
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  • A young camel is slaughtered for meat in a camp kitchen.
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  • A young woman in a resettlement village.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • Couples weather fog while lounging on a rocky beach in Miraflores, an affluent neighborhood in Lima. Some read newspapers and others sleep while a food vender carries treats looking for sales on a Sunday morning.
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  • Masai family and their herd of goats.
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  • Cloistered nuns pray seven times a day and otherwise remain silent.  Contemplation is the most important thing in their lives. Santa Catalina Convent, the Monasterio de Santa Catalina was built in 1580 and enlarged in the 17th century. In the chapel, the 30 cloistered nuns come together who live secluded inside the convent.
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  • A Zapotec Indian woman in traditional clothing serves food to wedding guests while others dance into the night. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. <br />
Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government. <br />
The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.  This party was complete with traditional food and dancing. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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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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  • Miss Ecuador puts on make up and does her hair in her home.
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  • Cloistered nuns pray seven times a day and otherwise remain silent.  Contemplation is the most important thing in their lives. Santa Catalina Convent, the Monasterio de Santa Catalina was built in 1580 and enlarged in the 17th century. In the chapel, the 30 cloistered nuns come together who live secluded inside the convent.
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  • A client admires her braid, flowers in her hair and freshly applied makeup at Princess de Gales, a beauty school in downtown Quito.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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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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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • A bride and groom deliver food and drink to the villagers that are homebound after their wedding.
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  • Three woman wearing felt fedoras laugh and watch friends at a community gathering in a rural, mountain area of Ecuador. The traditional hats as similar to the Cholita or bowler hats worn by women in Bolivia.
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  • Bar patrons dance among flashing red, blue and purple neon lights at a nightclub in Quito.
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  • An indigenous woman uses the phone in a public office.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • A worker consoles a crying child at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility exists to help support women and their families in Quito who are in need of place to go if they are abused or threatened.
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  • Songs and prayer are how nuns begin their day at Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa, Peru. The Monasterio de Santa Catalina was built in 1580. Among the 30 cloistered nuns who live in silence are five novices who study for five years to become a nun. The youngest nun is 15. The oldest is 98.
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  • Business men take a smoke and coffee 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. Dressed in a short, red dress, the waitress 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 bride and groom deliver food and drink to the village.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • At 'Michael's Genuine Food & Drink' restaurant.
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  • A visitor looks out from the lighthouse at Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • A counselor talks with a troubled child on the playground at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility supports women who need a refuge from abusive or threatening situations. They can receive food, a place to sleep, medical attention and emotional support for them selves and their children.
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  • A counselor talks with a troubled child at Casa Matilda, a non-profit safe house. The facility supports women who need a refuge from abusive or threatening situations. They can receive food, a place to sleep, medical attention and emotional support for them selves and their children.
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  • Candles in a heart-shape illuminate a wedding couple.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • A bride and groom prepare to take their wedding vows.
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  • Partygoers cheer as the groom searches for his bride   s garter.
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  • Christian metal rocker Nat Handloser shows off his finger armor.
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  • Australian Aborigines butchering a fresh killed water buffalo.
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  • At the A Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant, ethnic dancers, wait staff, performers are all from Xinjiang Province in North West China.
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  • Residents of a remote village rush to meet the supply helicopter.
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  • After the church wedding, the bride and groom are escorted through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to the street blocked off for the party. <br />
Mexico's narrowest point is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--flat, country where the Zapotec culture is still strong.  Women take leading role in business and government.  The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • Circus performers dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to advertise the show in Pisco. Locals watch the parade as 20 performers from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile smile and wave as they ride around in a circus truck the first night in town.
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  • Circus performers dressed in their costumes ride on a truck through town to advertise the show in Pisco. 20 performers from Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay and Chile smile and wave as they ride around in a circus truck the first night in town.
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  • Public art being created via ArtWorks, an apprentice-model workforce development program for youth.
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  • Kayakers with paddles wait to embark on an ecotour.
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  • Artists paint the walls of Imagination Station, a house across from Detroit's abandoned train depot.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • A couple at 'Michael's Genuine Food & Drink' restaurant.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Bride and groom light candles in prayer during their traditional wedding ceremony at the cathedral in Juchitán.<br />
After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to a street blocked off for the party.
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  • Cowboy chic bar patrons crowd together under a red glow to watch dancing and mechanical bull riding. The bar scene is packed at midnight in Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city of 3 million, also the capital of Nuevo Leon. A modern, industrial city, Monterrey is described as most Americanized-where the pursuit of profit seems more American than Mexican.
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  • Wind blows makeshift shelters of El Nino victims of flash flooding in the desert of Peru.
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  • The bride and groom put their heads together and share a private moment at their wedding party.  Weekends are full of celebrations complete with traditional food and dancing in the street. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to the street blocked off for the party. <br />
Mexico's narrowest point is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--flat, country where the Zapotec culture is still strong.  Women take leading role in business and government.  The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • Soldiers help a Mayan mother and her baby in Chiapas where the Mexican army clashed with local Zapatista rebels demanding more assistance from the federal government.
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  • A wedding party takes photos outside the historic Fox Theatre on Woodward Avenue.
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  • Friends dance and listen to music at the bar at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • Riverfront Canine Club members pause along the Dequindre Cut.
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  • Japan has a program that brings in Filipino and Indonesian workers to care for elderly.
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  • Japan has a program that brings in Filipino and Indonesian workers to care for elderly.
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  • Japan has a program that brings in Filipino and Indonesian workers to care for elderly.
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  • Japan has a program that brings in Filipino and Indonesian workers to care for elderly.
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  • A robotic leg with electrodes monitors changes in muscle activity.
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  • A robotic leg with electrodes monitors changes in muscle activity.
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  • A Filipino worker takes care of an elderly  Italian woman.
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  • Contestants for the Beef Empire Days queen and princess at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • Preparation for the Beef Empire Days princess contest at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • A Rapanui dancer applies body paint to a tourist.
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  • Pygmy tribespeople are treated at a health clinic.
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  • Two midwives help a woman give birth at the Dan Moser Memorial Clinic.
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  • The Twendy One robot project at Waseda University involves a robot being programmed to help elderly out of bed and into a wheelchair. Twendy One can also pick up a straw and put it into a drink for patients and the scientists hope eventually will be able to help around the kitchen and with shopping.  The hardware is very sophisticated with top of the line sensors everywhere including the very newest tactile sensors embedded in the palm and fingers of both hands, but the software to make all those sensors work in practical ways is lagging.  The hope is these robots will be a practical analytical solution to a burgeoning elderly class in Japan.
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