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  • Death Valley sand dunes.
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  • Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Monument, California/ Nevada. Adam Guerrieri runs on the ridge. USA.
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  • Altar inside the main chapel of the Soledad Mission, Soledad, California, USA.
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  • Campanile wall of Santa Ines Mission, Solvang, California, USA. with cactus, roses, and wooden cross.
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  • Inside the church at Mission San Juan Capistrano. San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.
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  • Afternoon lightning and thunderstorm approach the ruins and the restored church. Tumacacori Mission. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Church bell at Mission San Juan Capistrano. San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.
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  • Pool & courtyard of Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California. USA.
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  • Rutan Long E Z, Mojave, California. The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. It is derived from the VariEze, which was first offered to home-built aircraft enthusiasts in 1976. The prototype N79RA) of the Long-EZ first flew on 12 June 1979.
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  • Rutan Long E Z, Mojave, California. The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. It is derived from the VariEze, which was first offered to home-built aircraft enthusiasts in 1976. The prototype N79RA) of the Long-EZ first flew on 12 June 1979.
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  • Irrigation: pumping station at The Wind Gap Pumping Station lifts the California aqueduct water over the Tehachapi Mountains on its way toward Los Angeles. USA.
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  • East of Imperial Valley. Imperial Sand dunes, California, with the All American Canal in the foreground.
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  • California. Aqueduct. Pumping station at Wind gap. Note man standing on first concrete piers.
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  • California. Aqueduct. Pumping station at Wind gap. Note man standing on first concrete piers.
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  • Hawk, Sonora Desert Museum, near Tucson, Arizona.
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  • A photographer shoots Zabriskie Point at sunrise.  Death Valley National Monument, California/ Nevada. USA.
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  • The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California.
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  • The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California.
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson (on wave at right) surfs on the Pacific near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California.  (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ernie Johnson carries his surf board on the beach of the Pacific near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California.  (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, wheels himself down a sidewalk near his home in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, eats breakfast at his parents home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq in his wheelchair outside his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson at home in his 38 foot sailboat moored at Dana Point Harbor in California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson grills fish on his 38 foot sailboat moored at Dana Point Harbor in California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ernie Johnson cycles at the dock near his 38 foot sailboat at Dana Point Harbor, California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ernie Johnson on his 38-foot sailboat at Dana Point Harbor, California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lights illuminate the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California, before dawn. Pacific Ocean waves wash seaweed and kelp up onto the beach in the foreground.
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  • Ernie Johnson surfs on the Pacific near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California.  (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Empty wine glasses at a restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Different varieties of berries for sale at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Different varieties of berries for sale at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning with his son (laeft). Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured. (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A plate of caprese salad at a restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Jonathan Gold, a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly,(obscured behind the person at left) eating at Marouch Restaurant in Los Angeles, California. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jonathan Gold, a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.   (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Fruits at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A photographer films some of the actors at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A severed leg in military boots, one of the tell-tell signs of a staged meltdown in the fabricated Iraqi village town of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • A severed leg and an abandoned gun, tell-tell signs of a staged meltdown in the fabricated Iraqi village town of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • A soldier walks towards the Lyndon Marcus International Hotel in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors dressed as Iraqi men sit at a market stall in the fabricated Iraqi village if Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Women in burqas walk past an abandoned bicycle outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California in the Mojave Desert.  The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • An actor dressed as an Iraqi man stands outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Women walk past a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Military vehicles patrol the streets of Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • A soldier with a feigned injury at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound U.S. soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, having an MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) lunch at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert.
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  • Women walk on the street in a fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, at Camp Irwin,  California.
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  • One of the actors in crisis simulations at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town at Camp Irwin in California.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Soldiers eating during a training exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California,
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  • Curtis Newcomer, soldier at Fort Irwin, California speaks to one of his counterparts. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet.
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  • Fort Irwin, California, one of the places used by the U.S. Army to train soldiers before they are deployed to Iraq.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left), a soldier at Fort Irwin, California, smokes with one of his counterparts during a break.  (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, receives breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, getting breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds.
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  • Iraqi police officers and their U.S counterparts patrol a street in a fabricated Iraqi village at Fort Irwin, California. The sets are used for combat training exercises before the troops deploy to Iraq.
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  • Military vehicles with Arabic calligraphy used for training soldiers during simulated combat conditions before deploying to Iraq at Medina Jabal, an Iraqi town at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • Soldiers get their meals from an officers' mess at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Military vehicles and tents used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • Inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Medina Jabal Iraqi town at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • A market inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Village life inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • The fabricated village at Fort Irwin simulates life in Iraq for soldiers to the last detail, complete with consultations of Iraqi officials to resolve disputes.
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  • Painted rocks in California's Mojave Desert, near the military training center at Fort Irwin.
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  • Painted rocks in California's Mojave Desert, near the military training center at Fort Irwin.
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  • Military vehicles with Arabic calligraphy used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Medina Jabal, an Iraqi town at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq shaves at his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq shaves at his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq shaves at his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq shaves at his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq arrives at the VA Long Beach Medical Center in Inglewood, California for his exercises.    (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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