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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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  • A portrait of a young Chinese woman eating with chopsticks.
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  • A portrait of a young Chinese woman with hands on her face who appears to be tired and lost in thought.
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  • A young woman studies a menu at an upscale restaurant in Guangzhou.
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  • Young women walk their dog at the Findlay Market in Cincinnati.
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  • Young workers at their computers in an office.
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  • Portrait of a smiling young woman at the Baby Face Club.
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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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  • Young staff workers at their desks in cubicles with computers in a dot-com office.
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  • Young workers at a rising web company sponsoring the Olympic Games collect tchotchke or trinkets to decorate their computer screens, desks and cubicles.
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  • A young woman sits on a barstool in a crowded bar in Guangzhou.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • Young commuters on the Barcelona metro.
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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 young woman eats with chopsticks in a communal dining room.
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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 young woman with a camera taking a picture in a pedestrian shopping area at night.
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  • A large gold mask is displayed on a ledge while a young woman walks in the lobby of a nightclub.
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  • A flash goes off as a young woman in a dimly lit blue-lit bar snaps a photo with her camera.
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  • A young woman sits alone having a drink in a darkly lit bar.
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  • Flashing neon strobe lights electrify the dance floor creating a hypnotic scene at a bar scene attracting young people in Shanghai.
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  • A young woman holds a camera sitting at a cafe inside a shopping mall.
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  • A young woman sucks on a straw at a Starbucks cafe.
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  • A young woman sucks on a straw at a Starbucks cafe.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes admiring a red pump while wearing a white sneaker.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes in a busy store.
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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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  • 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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  • A young adult drinks a flaming cocktail at the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou.
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  • Young adults enjoying swimming in a water-filled rocky gorge.
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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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  • Urban street scene in Beijing shows a woman wearing a dollar sign earring. Southern Metropolitan News surveys since 1989 cite Guangzhou residents as responding that “love” comes after “money” on the value ladder.
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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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  • Makeup and costumes for young girls are part of the preparation for the Beef Empire Days princess contest at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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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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  • A woman points while young people enjoy drinks and conversation in a crowded bar.<br />
Flashing neon strobe lights electrify night spot that attracts young people in Shanghai.
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  • A worker's desk is stacked with tchotchkes, sodas, cell phone and plant in a  rising web company sponsoring the Olympic Games.
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  • A fashionable, young woman texts while sitting in a bar in Beijing. The potential spending power of Chinese women may be enormous in the next decade according to MasterCard International estimates. The total purchasing power of Chinese women living on their own or in married households with no children is likely to rise.
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  • A man awkwardly leans into his date at a popular, packed bar.
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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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  • Women from the rural countryside learn skills to work as maids for the newly wealthy class. They are trained to cook and iron at the Fuping Vocational Skills Training School. Li reacts to flying grease in one of the cooking classes.<br />
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Since opening up its economy in 1978 and moving toward a market economy, China has lifted about 400 million people out of poverty, according to the World Bank. But this has led to wide income inequalities that the Communist Party is trying to address through its notion of a “harmonious society” that has a more even distribution of the benefits of recent decades of speedy economic growth. <br />
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Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who go to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. In some cities, the migrants nearly outnumber the residents. One young girl told National Geographic, “All the young people leave our village. I’m not going back. Many can’t even afford a bus ticket and hitchhike to Beijing.” Overall, the Chinese government has tacitly supported migration as means of transforming China from a rural-based economy to an urban-based one.
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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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  • Young people are doused with water as men engage in a water fight at China Folk Culture Villages in Shenzhen.
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  • A young woman is doused with water as men engage in a water fight at China Folk Culture Villages in Shenzhen.
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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 young woman shops for clothing and other items for her infant while a clerk totals up the price in a childrens' clothing store in Shenzhen.
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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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  • Young people are doused with water as men engage in a water fight at China Folk Culture Villages in Shenzhen.
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  • A guard stands at the door of a Johnny Walker event at Granvil Mall where spokes-models chat in the lobby. The event featured formula one racing cars and hard alcohol. <br />
Young, urban Chinese today, tend to drink Starbucks, wear Nikes and blog obsessively.
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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, lost in thought, sits inside a popular McDonald's restaurant. <br />
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The Chinese food culture has been finely tuned for 3,000 years, but some are more effected than others from the influence of a western food culture.  <br />
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When a steady diet of junk food is consumed over time, many Chinese become overweight which is unlike traditional Chinese practicing customary Chinese eating habits.
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  • Women dance in a Petropavlovsk nightclub, Nebo Night Club. This club is possible in Yelizovo because the owner owns a fish processing plant and enjoys having his own club where young people like to congregate.
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  • Women with young children walk through the unpaved streets of a gold mining town in northeastern Congo.
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  • Young people converge nearby an American chain coffee-house in the Xintiandi mall area.
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  • A red-uniformed young guard stands outside a large villa in the Palais de Fortune development.
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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 woman wanders through a resettlement village where a gold mining company took over the land, then built houses and moved people into the new community. The problem is there is no work, food or wate.
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  • A young camel is slaughtered for meat in a camp kitchen.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • Pygmies bend branches to create shelter at hunting camps. The semi-nomadic tribal boys are going through the circumcision ceremony called nKumbi are accompanied the adults to the camp.  They have their own structure and are sent off into the forest to hunt or fish.
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  • Men smoke and sip drinks at a flamboyant bar in south China that attracts new wealth. In the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou, the bartender sets up a stack of glasses, then pours a flaming liquid over the top to make one of the most popular drinks-a Flaming Lamborghini. <br />
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China’s economic engine will change the world. The “Little Capitalist” class or ”Comfort Class” embraces Deng Xiaoping’s revolutionary proclamation, “To get rich is glorious.” <br />
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After 50 years of pent up frustration and stoically weathering the worst social experiment in history—Mao’s Cultural Revolution—this class is ready to lead the charge for the most voracious consumption on the planet.
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  • A  couple stand at a flamboyant bar in south China that attracts new wealth. In the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou, the bartender sets up a stack of glasses, then pours a flaming liquid over the top to make one of the most popular drinks-a Flaming Lamborghini. <br />
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China’s economic engine will change the world. The “Little Capitalist” class or ”Comfort Class” embraces Deng Xiaoping’s revolutionary proclamation, “To get rich is glorious.” <br />
<br />
After 50 years of pent up frustration and stoically weathering the worst social experiment in history—Mao’s Cultural Revolution—this class is ready to lead the charge for the most voracious consumption on the planet.
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  • A  flamboyant bar in south China attracts new wealth. In the Baby Face Club in Guangzhou, the bartender sets up a stack of glasses, then pours a flaming liquid over the top to make one of the most popular drinks-a Flaming Lamborghini. <br />
<br />
China’s economic engine will change the world. The “Little Capitalist” class or ”Comfort Class” embraces Deng Xiaoping’s revolutionary proclamation, “To get rich is glorious.” <br />
<br />
After 50 years of pent up frustration and stoically weathering the worst social experiment in history—Mao’s Cultural Revolution—this class is ready to lead the charge for the most voracious consumption on the planet.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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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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  • 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 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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