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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Stacked aboveground graves in a cemetery overlooking Lake Aititlan in Solola, Guatemala.
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  • Kuwaitis on the Road to the Manageesh Oil Fields near the Saudi border, attempt to fix a trailer in a sandstorm. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Force-feedback is widely used in data gloves, which send hand movements to grasping machines. The robot hand, which was built by the students in Mark Cutkosky's Stanford lab, transmits the "feel" of the blocks between its pincers, giving operators a sense of how hard they are gripping. Stanford, CA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 137 bottom.
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  • California Conservation Corps. Clearing a stream of redwood logs for the California Department of Fish & Game so that salmon can use the stream to spawn. Near Eureka, Northern California.
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  • Ice hockey game between teams from Lugano and Zurich in Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Day after Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Yellow row houses, Kronprinzessegade. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Sheriff Doris Weekly in his county jail, Ashland City, Tennessee, USA. The hands sticking out of the nearest cell belong to Johnny Walton, a neighbor of Menzel's who was serving time for theft. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fiat car engine factory, Turin, Italy. In the 1980's Fiat used automated carriers guided by wires in the floor as well as more traditional conveyors (seen here) to move engines from one assembly station to another: LAM.
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  • The afternoon sun weakly shines though the smoke of the burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. (May, 1991). More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • An Icelandic cod fisherman cleans fish in the belly of a boat near the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. Although their craft is small, their large nets are mechanized. They monitor the casting then drink coffee and eat bread and fruit in the boat's galley until it's time to  haul in the bounty. They clean the fish in the belly of the ship, toss the guts, and then, after repeating this cycle many times for 8 hours, head for port. The fishermen take a fish or two home each day, along with their pay.
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  • Downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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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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  • The afternoon sun weakly shines though the smoke of the burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. (May, 1991). More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
    KUW_065_xs.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • The afternoon sun weakly shines though the smoke of the burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War. (May, 1991). More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • A few blocks away from the Cabañas' home in the Malate shopping area, Angelita Cabaña, buys a week's worth of rice for the photo shoot. Fortified storefronts are not unusual: most small sari-saris (variety/convenience shops, often just a window on the street) have similar rails, or bars, for security. Angelita's purchase is unusual: most people in this working-class area buy smaller amounts, handing in their money then getting their rice beneath the bars. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 238).
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  • Genetically engineered tomato plants. Geneticist Dr. Virginia Ursin examines cultures of Flavr Savr tomato plants; the first genetically engineered whole food. Each dish contains seedlings cultured from a single cell, grown on agarose medium. Flavr Savr tomatoes have a gene that allows the fruit to ripen on the vine without softening; so they are tastier, don't need ripening with ethylene gas, and are not damaged during shipping. Tomato softening occurs due to the enzyme polygalacturonase. Flavr Savr tomatoes contain an anti-sense gene that blocks the enzyme. This tomato entered American supermarkets in 1994 but was withdrawn from the marketplace by Monsanto (which bought Calgene in 1997). Research at Calgene, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED [1995]
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  • Genetically engineered tomato plants. The petri dish contains cultures of Flavr Savr tomato plants; the first genetically engineered whole food. Each plantlet has been cultured from a single cell, grown on agarose medium. Flavr Savr tomatoes have a gene that allows the fruit to ripen on the vine without softening; so they are tastier, do not need ripening with ethylene gas, and are not damaged during shipping. Tomato softening occurs due to the enzyme polygalacturonase. Flavr Savr tomatoes contain an anti-sense gene that blocks the enzyme.   Research conducted at Calgene in California, USA. [1995].
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  • Zumbagua has a vegetable market big enough to attract a few tourists. The town even has a small hotel or two. Zumbagua is midway between the high Andes and the coastal lowlands; its market, supplied by both climatic zones, creates a kind of ecological collision, with purple mountain potatoes and bumpy red oca tubers vying for space with tropical pineapples and blocks of coarse brown sugar. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Soviet-style apartment blocks on the edge of Ulaanbaatar, a legacy of Mongolia's Communist past, are now surrounded by squatters; more accurately, urban homesteaders. Former nomads, they have precisely parceled out the land and staked out their neat gers. The gers lack indoor plumbing, but in other ways are more comfortable than the city's crowded apartments. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 228). This image is featured alongside the Batsuuri family images in 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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  • 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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  • Hypothermia Research: Dr. Robert S. Pozos, Director of the Hypothermia Research Lab at the University of Minnesota Hypothermia in Duluth. (Blocks of ice brought in for photo.) MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Concrete blocks placed along the shoreline to prevent massive soil erosion near Nuclear Power Plant Number 4 in Fulong, Taiwan.
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  • Genetically engineered tomato plants. Geneticist Dr Virginia Ursin examines cultures of Flavr Savr tomato plants; the first genetically engineered whole food. Each dish contains seedlings cultured from a single cell, grown on agarose medium. Flavr Savr tomatoes have a gene that allows the fruit to ripen on the vine without softening; so they are tastier, don't need ripening with ethylene gas, and are not damaged during shipping. Tomato softening occurs due to the enzyme polygalacturonase. Flavr Savr tomatoes contain an anti-sense gene that blocks the enzyme. This tomato entered American supermarkets in 1994 but was withdrawn from the marketplace by Monsanto (which bought Calgene in 1997). Research at Calgene, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED [1995]
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  • Seeming to touch the objects on his screen, Peter Berkelman, then a graduate student at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, scoops up virtual blocks with a special device that communicates the sensation of touching them. The device, which has a handle suspended in powerful magnetic fields, can move with all six possible degrees of freedom: up and down, side to side, back and forth, yaw, pitch, and roll. Used with special "haptic" software the device has force-feedback. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 136.
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  • Genetically engineered tomato plants. Geneticist Dr Virginia Ursin examines cultures of Flavr Savr tomato plants; the first genetically engineered whole food. Each dish contains seedlings cultured from a single cell, grown on agarose medium. Flavr Savr tomatoes have a gene that allows the fruit to ripen on the vine without softening; so they are tastier, don't need ripening with ethylene gas, and are not damaged during shipping. Tomato softening occurs due to the enzyme polygalacturonase. Flavr Savr tomatoes contain an anti-sense gene that blocks the enzyme. This tomato entered American supermarkets in 1994 but was withdrawn from the marketplace by Monsanto (which bought Calgene in 1997). Research at Calgene, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.[1995]
    USA_SCI_BIOT_11_xs.jpg
  • Genetically engineered tomato plants. The petri dish contains cultures of Flavr Savr tomato plants; the first genetically engineered whole food. Each plantlet has been cultured from a single cell, grown on agarose medium. Flavr Savr tomatoes have a gene that allows the fruit to ripen on the vine without softening; so they are tastier, do not need ripening with ethylene gas, and are not damaged during shipping. Tomato softening occurs due to the enzyme polygalacturonase. Flavr Savr tomatoes contain an anti-sense gene that blocks the enzyme. This tomato entered American supermarkets in 1994 but was withdrawn from the marketplace by Monsanto (which bought Calgene in 1997). Research conducted at Calgene in California, USA. [1995]
    USA_SCI_BIOT_07_xs.jpg
  • Zumbagua has a vegetable market big enough to attract a few tourists. The town even has a small hotel or two. Zumbagua is midway between the high Andes and the coastal lowlands; its market, supplied by both climatic zones, creates a kind of ecological collision, with purple mountain potatoes and bumpy red oca tubers vying for space with tropical pineapples and blocks of coarse brown sugar. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 112).
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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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  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brown smoke rises from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Regis Block, a building in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Boots and Coots prepares to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces that block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Scientist Richard Turco and Carl Sagan were on the scientific team that devised the concept of nuclear winter. Turco is seen here at the Nuclear Winter test fire: where a canyon outside Los Angeles was deliberately set on fire to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_25_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brown smoke rises from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
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  • Physics: Scientist, Cynthia Alviso, with two organic aerogels. The cloudy white disc is silica aerogel, whilst the red disc is an aerogel containing fibers of an organic material. Aerogel is a new material, which has very high thermal insulation and extremely low mass. It is made by drying a water-based or alcohol-based gel in a super fluid process that prevents the gel from collapsing. The resulting block of linked microscopic fibers contains about 90% air, so is very lightweight. Aerogel is being studied as a thermal insulator and as a holding medium for nuclear fusion fuel. Photographed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. MODEL RELEASED [1991].
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie passes by root vegetables and fruit for sale by the plate full near the office where she works as an assistant in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie serves coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a longtime office assistant. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa with traces of breakfast on their faces: pap (corn meal mixed with water). Published in Material World, page 24. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie offers coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an office assistant. Published in Material World, page 24. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Simon and Poppy Qampie (center in blue shirt, and red, respectively) pose with their children and extended family outside their home outside Johannesburg, in Southwest Township, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Child, Games. Material World Project.
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  • The Quampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa.  The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Chopping squash for a lunch of squash, cauliflower, squash, mushrooms and green onions, and chicken at the Cuis of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Preparing a lunch of squash, cauliflower, mushrooms and green onions at the Cuis of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered. Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A portion of a test block of Floyd Zaiger's young fruit trees in bloom at night with a near full moon. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. 1983.
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  • Explosive demolition of the Regis Block, a building in Mexico City that was damaged by an earthquake. Demolition by the USA company called Controlled Demolition, Inc, run by three generations of Loizeaux family. Mexico City, Mexico.
    MEX_EQ_131_xs.jpg
  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030329_251_rwx.jpg
  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030329_246_rwx.jpg
  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030329_121_x.jpg
  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030329_117_x.jpg
  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030329_115_x.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: brush fires deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_24_xs.jpg
  • Nuclear Winter test fire: fire crews rest while monitoring the brown smoke rising from smoldering brush fires, deliberately started to study the potential climatic effects of a nuclear war. The nuclear winter theory predicts that smoke from fires burning after a nuclear war would block sunlight, causing a rapid drop in temperature that would trigger serious ecological disturbance. The test burn took place in December 1986 on 500 acres of brush in Lodi Canyon, Los Angeles. Dripping napalm from a helicopter ignited the fire. Ground-based temperature sensors were used to study soil erosion. Various airborne experiments included smoke sampling & high-altitude infrared imaging from a converted U-2 spy plane.
    USA_SCI_NUKE_23_xs.jpg
  • Physics: A blowtorch is applied to a sample of aerogel to demonstrate its insulation properties. Aerogel is a new material, which has very high thermal insulation properties and extremely low mass. It is made by adding alcohol to a conventional silica gel to remove water. The gel is then placed in a pressure chamber, and the alcohol removed under super fluid conditions. This prevents the gel from collapsing. The resulting block of silica fibers contains about 90% air, so is very lightweight. Aerogel is being studied as an insulating material and as a holding medium for nuclear fusion fuel. Photographed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. [1991]
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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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  • Austin Richards of Santa Barbara, CA, is zapped by his homemade Tesla Coil. Richards wears a homemade robot outfit with a birdcage covering his head. The electrical "lightning" bolts his Tesla coil zaps him with do not do any harm because he is surrounded by metal that acts a Faraday cage, harmlessly channeling the charges to the ground and protecting his body from shocks. Richards performs these stunts for trade shows and parties. Here he is doing this for a block party near Santa Barbara. California, USA
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  • Austin Richards of Santa Barbara, CA, is zapped by his homemade Tesla Coil. Richards wears a homemade robot outfit with a birdcage covering his head. The electrical "lightning" bolts his Tesla coil zaps him with do not do any harm because he is surrounded by metal that acts a Faraday cage, harmlessly channeling the charges to the ground and protecting his body from shocks. Richards performs these stunts for trade shows and parties. Here he is doing this for a block party near Santa Barbara. California, USA
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  • University of California Berkeley biologist Robert Full analyzes centipede motion by observing the insect's movement across a glass plate covered with "photoelastic" gelatin. On either side of the gel are thin polarizing filters that together block all light coming through the glass. When the centipede's feet contact the gel, they temporarily deform it, altering the way light goes through it and allowing some to pass through the filters. In the test above, one group of legs works on one side of the animal's midsection while two other groups work near its head and tail. UC Berkeley (California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 94 bottom..
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Leah and Anna, Poppy Qampie's mother and sister, respectively, visit in the kitchen of Poppy's house in Soweto, South Africa. Published in Material World page 27. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Rain delay during the shooting of the Material World big picture in South Africa. The Qampie family had to cover all their possessions, which had already been moved outside, during the brief but fierce thunderstorm that swept across Soweto. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Simon Qampie brushes his teeth over a bucket in the bedroom of his family's house in Southwest Township (called Soweto), South Africa. They have running water in the kitchen only, and their toilet is an outhouse in their backyard. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Soweto, outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy and Simon Qampie's main purchase at a supermarket is always corn meal, which they mix with water to form what is known as pap: hot cornmeal porridge. Published in Material World page 25..The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Getting to work can be frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie irons Simon's shirt in the kitchen of their Soweto home before she leaves for work as her mother, Leah, looks on. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Getting to work is a scary daily business for Simon and Poppy Qampie, because the train that picks them up at the Phomolong station in Soweto, South Africa, is often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa eat a breakfast, and a lunch, of hot pap porridge: corn meal mixed with water. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Breakfast at the Cuis' includes fresh eggs from the family hens and hot mian tiao (noodles) with a little cooked spinach and MSG. The round chopping block is made from a slice of tree trunk, a common practice in China. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 89). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, 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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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered. Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered (entrails shown here). Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered. Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered. Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup (shown here). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 62).
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane's block in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by banding together to buy a goat, which they then slaughtered (shown here). Later that day, the refugee families split up into groups of men and women who feasted, separately, on aiysh and goat-meat soup. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 62).
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  • 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. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 60). /// This image is featured alongside the Aboubakar family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 56-57 for a family portrait.)
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  • USA_SCI_BIOSPH_79_xs <br />
The Biosphere 2 Project external buildings at dusk, showing the generator block. Gas generators made 30,000 kilowatt-hours daily. Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self- sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self-contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. 1992
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  • Floyd Zaiger with "Zaiger's brides" at night in front of a test block of flowering trees. Hand-pollinated trees in barrels are covered with cheesecloth nets, which keeps stray bees from pollinating flowers with uncontrolled pollen. These draped trees are called "Zaiger's brides" by employees. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Fruit trees in bloom -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Boots and Coots prepares to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces that block the intense heat of the fire and working under a water spray. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Portrait of Poppy Qampie's mother Leah Nosizwe, 64 in the kitchen of their Soweto home. She sleeps in the second small bedroom with the children.  The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. - from Wikipedia
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. - from Wikipedia
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  • A tourist takes pictures in the Dead Vlei, a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, a drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
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