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  • Qat leaves in a bag for sale on the streets of Sanaa, Yemen. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. Napa, California, USA. Napa Valley.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, who fell off her bike in front of their apartment. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, who fell off her bike in front of their apartment. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Nasrullah Qureshi, 51, after buying meat, emerging from an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries. Model-Released.
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  • Covarelli, with his prize-winning Koi and previously won trophies at his home in California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. MODEL RELEASED.  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Camping in the snow  on a small island in Leith Cove, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica Peninsula.
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  • Local tribesman wearing a penis gourd, called a horum, and a hat of bird feathers carries a sack of vegetables and handful of bananas on a trail near Kurima, in the central highlands of the South Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. His body is rubbed with pig grease to help protect him from chilly weather. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • Guam; Earl Campbell's brown tree snake research in a jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released. . There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, kneeling, choosing fruit in an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • An artist sleeps near her art installation at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. At Justin's Ice Cream Company.
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  • El Barrio del Carme, Valencia, Spain.
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  • One of General Aidid's tanks captured and disabled in a battle for Keysaney Hospital. Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A worker on a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • A worker on a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Alamin Hasan carries a bag at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Plastic bags discarded after they were used for holding qat are blown by the wind and snagged on a desert bush near a qat market in BinAifan. Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Woodstock Rock Festival fans in the rain wait on the muddy hillside above the stage for the next act to play at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969..
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  • Onions - near Gilroy, Central Valley, California. USA.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit. .
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel camping in the snow  on a small island in Leith Cove, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica Peninsula. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thursday Market in the Plaza Del Raso, Calahorra. Calahorra is the major town in the Baja region of La Rioja. The Romans had a great presence here in ancient times and this is the birthplace of both the great Roman scholar Quintilian (A.D 35-100) and the poet Prudentius. .La Rioja, Calahorra, Spain.
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  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo boils water with rice straw fuel at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo boils water with rice straw fuel at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Nguyen Van Theo and his family still eat traditional Vietnamese foods.
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  • A vendor sells potatoes, ginger, garlic and chili at a market in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A security guard checks diamond polisher Mestilde Shigwedha's grocery items against her receipt at a supermarket in Windhoek, Namibia. Guards check the groceries of all shoppers to prevent shoplifting.
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  • Chickens packaged with eggs in the Santa Carolina Market, Quito, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Dong family, of Beijing, China, haul their groceries up the stairwell to their newly redecorated fourth-floor flat. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 81). The Dong family of Beijing, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel camping in the snow  on a small island in Leith Cove, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica Peninsula. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Napa Valley supermarket
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  • Preparing to feed the tourist at the openhouse at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Collecting bottle sna can for recycling money in Oslo, Norway.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, paying for fresh produce in an ethnic market in Oslo while buying a week's worth of groceries.
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  • Ottersland Dahl family, of Gjettum, Norway (outside Oslo). Gunhild Valle Ottersland, 45, shopping for weekly groceries. Model-Released.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. August. Napa Valley, CA
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120128_252_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120128_056_x.jpg
  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
    LAO_120128_055_x.jpg
  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • People sleep in snow pits commonly referred to as "snow coffins" at dawn after spending the night on a small island in Leith Cove, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica Peninsula.
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  • At agricultural research station near Oaxaca, Mexico (INIFAP: National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture, and Animal Husbandry), the annual "milpa" survey includes cataloging and photographing hundreds of samples of corn, beans, and squash seeds (grown together and known as a "milpa") in this part of Mexico.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • Thursday Market in the Plaza Del Raso, Calahorra. Calahorra is the major town in the Baja region of La Rioja. The Romans had a great presence here in ancient times and this is the birthplace of both the great Roman scholar Quintilian (A.D 35-100) and the poet Prudentius. .La Rioja, Calahorra, Spain.
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  • Herbs used by folk medicine doctor. Menghan Sunday market in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Pharmaceutical technicians cataloguing new plants in a herbarium. The plant samples, which are from all over the world, are weighed (at center left), unpacked (at center right) and entered onto computer (at upper center). The herbarium, or botany room, is where plants are dried, pressed and stuck to sheets for identification purposes (as at bottom left). MODEL RELEASED
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  • Alamin Hasan, a porter at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with his day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo boils water with rice straw fuel at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Nguyen Van Theo and his family still eat traditional Vietnamese foods.
    VIE_081220_233_xw.jpg
  • Teenage girls eat ice-cream from Baskin-Robbins on a sidewalk in the Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A makeshift tent shower used by Abdel Karim Aboubakar's family in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family in their kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, with one week's worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, and Orlando Ayme, sit flanked by their children (left to right): Livia, Natalie, Moises, Alvarito, Jessica, Orlando hijo (Junior, held by Ermelinda), and Mauricio. The Ayme family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 106).
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  • CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center outside Mexico City, Mexico has a huge concrete refrigerated gene bank with thousands of corn seed samples. Here, Jaime Diaz collects jars of seed. This is the largest such Germplasm bank in the world..Near Mexico City. .
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  • Kuwaiti checkpoint outside Kuwait city immediately after the Gulf War. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Image showing the small size of the micro- accelerometer used to trip a car 'air-bag' safety device. The micro-accelerometer is seen as the small black dot in the middle of the hand. In a collision, the micro-accelerometer detects the sudden slowing down of the car. This triggers a circuit, which rapidly inflates a plastic bag with air. The air bag deploys between the driver and the steering wheel, preventing serious facial injury as the driver is thrown forward. The air- bag inflates fully in about 0.2 seconds. Micro- accelerometers are mechanical devices made by the same processes that are used in the manufacture of conventional silicon microcircuits.
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  • A micro-loan recipient stitches net bags destined for Dhaka  at her home in  the village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each bag sells for 1.2 taka ($0.02 USD). In order for a seamstress to make the equivalent of $1 (USD), she must sew 1,000 bags. She received a micro-loan from the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC), which provides micro-loans to village women making mesh bags.
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  • Conrad Tolby walks back to his truck with dinner in a bag at a truck stop at intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois.  (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A boy with a bag of qat leaves from  street vendors in Sanaa, Yemen in the old city souk. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
    YEM_080328_069_xw.jpg
  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • The honey of Australian sting-less bees is so thin it pours like wine? the honey, called "sugar bag", is combined with whipped cream and a frozen honeypot replete for a sweet confection, Sydney, Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 29. See also Man Eating Bugs page 11).
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  • A woman scrapes a sheepskin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village. She will use the sheepskin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt. Her village is near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran.
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  • Jun Yajima, a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, powers through downtown Tokyo traffic to deliver a package suspended in his shoulder bag, while also keeping an ear out for his dispatcher to assign him his next pickup location. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A policeman examines a bag of at qat before buying from a vendor at the qat market in souk of BinAifan, Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • A woman scrapes a sheep's skin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. She will use the sheep skin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Market day  in Ecaudor is bustling as families from all over the hills stock up on food. Here a man ties a 100-lb. bag of potatoes onto his wife's back. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 110).
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  • Peter Menzel, self-portrait, at dawn in sleeping bag in seaside cave at Dinosaur Cove, Cape Otway, southern Australia. Dinosaur cove is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology - normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
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  • A traditional Thursday afternoon qat-chewing and tobacco-smoking session among friends in Sanaa, Yemen, can last five or six hours. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The men pick through the bag selecting leaves to chew until the masticated mass in their cheek is the size of a golf ball. Qat is harvested year-round.  Its leaves lose their potency within a day, so they must be picked, sorted, washed, and rushed to market daily.
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_107_rwx.jpg
  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_094_rwx.jpg
  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_022_rwx.jpg
  • The Khuenkaew's refrigerator holds some soft drinks, eggs, a bag of meat. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits at a market in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, and sells qat leaves in plastic bags.  (Ahmed Ahmed Swaid is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.  MODEL RELEASED.
    YEM_080327_029_xw.jpg
  • A young porter Alamin Hasan, smokes a cigarette at the Kamlapur train station in Dhaka, where he earns a living by offering to carry passengers' bags.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A mother sits with her daughters in the market in Taxco, a colonial silver mining town sixty miles southwest of Mexico City, Mexico. She is selling bags of the edible iodine-rich flying stinkbug, the jumil (Euchistus taxcoensis). The jumil is rich in iodine and consuming them prevents diseases resulting from iodine deficiency like goiters and thyroid problems. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • While the Browns of Riverview, Australia are used to living with a nearly-empty refrigerator, they look forward to the days when it's full. Every two weeks a new check appears and the family goes to the supermarket. John tends to the bags while Marge and Vanessa continue to load groceries for checkout. This trip, the Browns were also preparing for their upcoming photo shoot. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Men move bags of donated and purchased grain which is handed out to the refugee families who are organized into blocks every month by the United Nations WFP (World Food Program). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pink plastic bags of bread on a busy street in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • (1992) Crime Scene Unit responding to a body found in a closet in the Bronx. The suspect confessed at the 44th precinct while we were at the crime scene. He smoked 10 vials of crack and killed his girlfriend in his father's apartment bedroom. He mopped up the blood but left pieces of the mop on the floor, and bloody sheets in a bucket in the bathtub. The detectives took samples of the mop, bed sheets and blood on the floor. They bagged the hands of the victim for evidence and analysis at the morgue. There was a pit bull dog found in the other closet. DNA Fingerprinting..
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  • (1992) A Crime Scene Unit responds to the dispatcher's call of a body found in a closet in the Bronx. The suspect confessed at the 44th precinct while detectives were gathering evidence at the crime scene. He had smoked ten vials of crack cocaine and killed his girlfriend in his father's apartment bedroom, then mopped up the blood, but left pieces of the mop on the floor and bloody sheets in a bucket in the bathtub. The detectives took samples of the mop, bed sheets and blood on the floor. They bagged the hands of the victim for analysis at the morgue. Bronx, NYC. DNA Fingerprinting..
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits at a market in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, and sells qat leaves in plastic bags.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Pima farmer Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo's wife Esthela makes tortillas by hand, cooking them on top of the wood stove, which also serves as a heat source during chilly Sierra Madre mountain winters a their home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Her two youngest sons wait for breakfast, while her oldest son helps José with the milking. Practically self-sufficient, the family does buy some basic food and supplies, like powdered milk, at Disconsa, one of a network of government-subsidized stores catering to rural communities, in the town of Maycoba, six miles from their home. They grow their own corn and grind it, but Esthela keeps bags of masa flour on her pantry shelf for making tortillas. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman sews mesh bags for sale in the village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80  Diets.) The  Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC), has provided micro-loans to village women making mesh bags.
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  • Villagers inspect the carcass of a cow they slaughtered after it swallowed more than 10 kilograms of plastic bags and became critically bloated in a village near Narouk, Kenya.  This discovery came at the cost of two cattle in a culture that values livestock highly. In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Here the dead calf is removed from the birth sack. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai (center), the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, oversees the slaughter of her pregnant cow, which became critically bloated after it ingested plastic bags resulting in a 10 kilogram mass that obstructed it's digestive system   (Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai (center), the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, oversees the slaughter of her pregnant cow, which became critically bloated after it ingested plastic bags resulting in a 10 kilogram mass that obstructed it's digestive system. (Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Workers stack bags of food aid at the Breidjing Refiugee Camp, run by the UN World Food Programme in eastern Chad. Food distribution at the Breidjing Refugee Camp is very systematic. Following a precise schedule, workers distribute food, including bags of corn-soy mixture and sorghum to block leaders, who then parcel it out to families.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Here, D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40 (and a widowed mother of 5), shows her UN ration food card. Food distribution for the Breidjing Refugee Camp in eastern Chad, run by the U.N. World Food Programme, is very systematic. Following a precise schedule, workers distribute food, including bags of corn-soy mixture and sorghum to block leaders, who then parcel it out to families. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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