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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
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  • A vendor cleans corn as she waits for customers in the Santa Carolina Market in Quito, Ecuador.  Grocery stores, supermarkets, and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. As transportation became more efficient (especially refrigerated transport), and farms became huge, big corporations moved into the food business to take advantage of scale, especially in the United States. Now the convenience of one-stop shopping has made this business even bigger. Even the smaller supermarkets are being bought up or run out of business by the larger concerns. Some small town markets still exist today throughout much of Europe, although to a lesser degree there as well. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world, and, for better or worse, will remain so until they are numerous and big enough to attract the conglomerates' attention. Coming full circle, farmers markets have come back into vogue in some places in the USA where they had largely disappeared.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. A district dignitary participates in the celebration of the coming of electricity to Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. Dancers help celebrate the coming of electricity to Shingkhey Village, Bhutan.
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  • Environs. Flowering "Desert Rose" bush/tree in a dry steam bed area of the Sahel in Eastern Chad, near the Breidjing Refugee Camp. The Adenium or "Desert Rose" is an extraordinary tropical plant. Coming essentially from East Africa, where it is found under different "subspecies" in countries like Sudan, Yemen, Socotra , Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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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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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke, composite. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke gazes at the moon. "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming," one of Arthur C. Clarke's characters says in the short story "The Sentinel" (1948), which was the basis for his book 2001 - A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Grain and sundries shop in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu. There are no western-style supermarkets in the country. This store is about as big as they come, and most all of the packaged goods come in overland from India. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Sealift room (food storage room). One perk that the Melansons can take advantage of that isn't available to everyone in Nunavut is the sealift: bulk buying of staple foods to bring down the high price of food to this remote area. It comes in via ship from Canada's southern provinces. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry.
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  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
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  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
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  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
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  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
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  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for photographs at La Maison?a location often used in Cuba for a girls' Quinceañera, the traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party. Revisit of Material World project 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa steals a nap after her fifteenth birthday photo shoot in various locations around Old Havana. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party and whirlwind of activities for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses for a portrait with her parents Montecristi Garcia and Eulina Costa at her fifteenth birthday party. The Quinceañera, is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa is toasted during her Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, by her friends and parents (Montecristi Garcia, center left, and Eulina Costa, center right. The Quinceañera is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Iris Garcia Costa poses at one of the myriad locations a photographer takes her for her fifteenth birthday photo shoot. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After sunset, Sandra Raymond Mundi's niece Iris celebrates her Quinceañera, the traditional coming-of-age party for girls. Here flanked by her mother and father (recently divorced) she is about to cut her cake in front of a hundred friends and relatives. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Soumana Natomo stands outside his small earthen grain shed, which sits above the weekly market grounds of Koukourou, his village located between the market town of Mopti and Djenne, Mali. He watches the merchants come by boat via the Niger River, in the early morning before the market begins, to set up stalls to sell their wares. Material World Project.
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  • Ducks for sale in the old Qingping market, Guangzhou, China. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164). Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Pig parts and lard are displayed for sale in the municipal market in Cuernavaca, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere?as these photographs demonstrate?come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Tables of beef viscera for sale in a market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate)come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Chicken and ducks for sale in Chinese open markets are shown live then either killed immediately or brought home live. The Chinese insistence on fresh food treats with suspicion anything that is already dead. This is changing somewhat in urban centers as Western style supermarkets become more ubiquitous in the country. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Beijingers and travelers alike flock to the specialty restaurants, like Beijing Qianmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant 32, Qianmen Street, for their very own Peking duck dinner. These succulent ducks will be served whole and cut tableside after the flurry of activity on the part of several cooks and assistants to prepare them in large roasting ovens. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Pama Kondo (in yellow) talks with family members and friends in her courtyard as her daughter Pai gets her hair styled for her wedding. Pai, 18, will be married today to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai this morning, as is the custom, and she is quiet as part of the ritualized mourning for her lost youth.
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  • General Crear of the Army Corps of Engineers talks with soldiers who have come to gawk and give a press tour of one of the burning oil wells just extinguished by Boots and Coots in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Rumaila, Iraq. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • RADON CURE: Defunct gold and uranium mines south of Helena, Montana, attract ailing tourists, who bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water to improve their health. Each summer, hundreds of people, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers.   (1991)
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • During a celebration of the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, visiting dignitaries join village member Namgay (at the head of the table) at a buffet of red rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, beef, chicken, and a spicy cheese and chili pepper soup. The villagers have been stockpiling food for the event. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • During a celebration of the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, visiting dignitaries join village member Namgay (at the head of the table) at a buffet of red rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, beef, chicken, and a spicy cheese and chili pepper soup. The villagers have been stockpiling food for the event. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 42). The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • IND.MWdrv04.132.x..MIshri Yadav, 35, (in pink sari) her sister (in red) who has come from a neighboring village to help, and a friend walk to Mishri's home after harvesting wheat. They grow one planting of wheat and then rice during the rest of the year. Mishri's family must pay half of the harvest to the owner of the land that they farm. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Work..
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  • IND.MWdrv04.118.x..Mishri Yadav's sister, Sona (foreground), has come from her nearby village of Bhagwarpur to help harvest wheat with a friend and her sister Mishri (in pink) in Mishri's home village of Ahraura, Uttar Pradesh, India. Women often share harvesting tasks to make the work go faster. Mishri's family must pay half of the harvest to the owner of the land that they farm. They grow one planting of wheat and then rice during the rest of the year. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Work..
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  • Nalim and Namgay's grandson, Geltshin, watches a wood worker cutting traditional shapes into a piece of wood for a new Bhutanese house. The carpenters, from another village, have set up camp and live at the work site while they do the woodwork for a new house in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth dot the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's neighbor is building a new house for his family directly in front of his old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. Villagers from each family come to help pound the dirt into wooden forms day after day, creating the walls of the earthen house. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • A woman named Savitridevi Mishra died at 4 o'clock this morning and lies on the paving stones in the center of a square ringed by apartments near Manikarnika Ghat and the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. A local photographer has come to take a commemorative photograph (at left).
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits in his wheelchair (he has post-polio syndrome) at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, upon a checkerboard-patterned area facing the sea. Clarke wrote 3001 while living in this hotel. He wrote 2001 while living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. When asked about Hal and Hal's legacy (artificial intelligence), Clarke said that Hal was possible but asked if that was a good idea. He said that he believed intelligent machines will come, but then there is the question of consciousness. "I think, therefore I am, I think," he said. The photograph Illustrates this quote. Published in Germany's Stern Magazine, 12 December 2001, pages 74-75 and table of contents. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • RADON CURE: Defunct gold and uranium mines south of Helena, Montana, attract ailing tourists, who bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water to improve their health. Each summer, hundreds of people, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers. Visitor Ralph Clark at the Merry Widow Mine, which is a tunnel into the mountain, with a temperature that remains around 60 degrees in both winter and summer. The typical vacation at the Merry Widow Health Mine lasts anywhere from a week to two weeks and visitors are recommended to sit in the mine two or three times a day. Visitors also soak their feet in the freezing cold mineral waters or drink the mine water, which they claim is very productive to good health. The water at the Merry Widow Mine has been tested by the State Health Department and found to be pure for drinking purposes. The mineshaft touts radon levels as much as 175 times the federal safety standard for houses. The permitted total visit is determined by the radiation level of the particular mine. The average visitor is 72 years old. The mines appeal to "plain people," such as the Amish or the Mennonites, because of the "natural" healing aspects, the lack of commercialization, and the relatively low cost-per-hour for treatment sessions. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • RADON CURE: Defunct gold and uranium mines south of Helena, Montana, attract ailing tourists, who bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water to improve their health. Each summer, hundreds of people, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers. The mineshaft touts radon levels as much as 175 times the federal safety standard for houses. The typical vacation lasts any where from a week to two weeks and visitors are recommended to sit in the mine two or three times a day. The permitted total visit is determined by the radiation level of the particular mine. The average visitor is 72 years old. The mines appeal to "plain people," such as the Amish or the Mennonites, because of the "natural" healing aspects, the lack of commercialization, and the relatively low cost-per-hour for treatment sessions. (1991)
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo's wife selling vegetables on the streets of Hanoi. Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, age 51, of rural Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, is a rice farmer with three children who lived hand-to-mouth until wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, moved to Hanoi with her sisters to sell vegetables on a street corner to support their families. Through the years she has managed to come home to the village only once every two months. (Theo Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rice farmer's wife selling vegetables on the streets of Hanoi. Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, age 51, of rural Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, is a rice farmer with three children who lived hand-to-mouth until wife Vie Thi Phat, 53, moved to Hanoi with her sisters to sell vegetables on a street corner to support their families. Through the years she has managed to come home to the village only once every two months. (Nguyen Van Theo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • To study the flight control behavior of fruit flies, Dickinson and his researchers have come up with something even more bizarre than RoboFly. They have built a virtual reality flight simulator for fruit flies in an upstairs lab. A tiny fly is glued to a probe positioned in an electronic arena of hundreds of flashing LEDs that can also measure its wing motion and flight forces. By altering its wing motion, the fly itself can change the display of the moving electronic panorama, tricking the fly into "thinking" it is really flying through the air. The amplified humming of the fruit fly as it buzzes through its imaginary flight surrounded by computers in the darkened lab is quite bizarre.
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • With its carapace not yet built, the mechanism inside the head of Cog is revealed against a photographer's lights. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, MA. So much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 59.
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  • A man who hopes to become known as the Father of the Artificial Brain, Hugo de Garis of Starlab in Belgium argues that "artilects", artificial intellects, are inevitable. He also thinks humankind may come to rue the day it created them. De Garis was working at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 28.
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields in Tingo, Ecaudor, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit. The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).
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  • Barges in the bay, which has 30-foot tides, unload from ships in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Nearly all supplies come by ship, only during the ice-free spring, summer, and early fall months. Iqaluit, with population of 6,000, is the largest community in Nunavut as well as the capital city. It is located in the southeast part of Baffin Island. Formerly known as Frobisher Bay, it is at the mouth of the bay of that name, overlooking Koojesse Inlet. "Iqaluit" means 'place of many fish'. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Li Jinxian always likes to buy fruit from the same vendor, a woman whom she has built a rapport with over time. This week her husband, Cui Haiwang, has come shopping with her; usually he's away working in Beijing. Both husband and wife are discriminating fruit and vegetable shoppers. Sniffing and pinching each item before deciding on a purchase is standard operating procedure. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 85). 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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  • Namgay's guests have their meal in front of the earthen wood-fired cooking stove, inside their three storey rammed earth home. The light bulb hanging from the ceiling is a novelty because it is the first day electricity has come to this remote, mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan as well as the surrounding region. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • During a celebration of the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, visiting dignitaries join village member Namgay (in gray with blue cuffs at the table) at a buffet of red rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, beef, chicken, and a spicy cheese and chili pepper soup. The villagers have been stockpiling food for the event. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). As part of the celebration that marks the first electricity to come to this region of Bhutan, Chato Namgay (in red robe) lights the ritual butter lamps on an altar below the transformer on the power pole. Above a photo of the king, a sign reads: "Release of Power Supply to Rural Households Under Wangdi Phodrang Dzon Khag to Commemorate Coronation Silver Jubilee Celebration of His Majesty, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • As part of the celebration that marks the first electricity to come to this village in central Bhutan, ritual butter lamps and food offerings on an altar with lightbulbs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • Friends and neighbors come to join in a housewarming ceremony for the new rammed earth house behind them, in Gangte, Bhutan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Wadis in the central part of Chad are dry nine months of the year. During that time, villagers must dig down to the water, shoring up the wells with millet stalks to keep them from collapsing. In the morning, the wadis are furiously active. One after another, teams of two or three girls fill the pools as wave after wave of animals come to drink. It's hard work: the water rapidly evaporates, sinks into the sand, and vanishes down the animals, and the girls have to keep refilling the pools. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 71).
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  • Red-gold sunset near the village of Kouakourou, Mali, Africa. This man has come from a neighboring village to the Saturday market on his motorbike. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.045.x..Mishri Yadav, 35, (in pink sari) her sister, Sona, who has come from the neighboring village of Bhagwarpur to help, and a friend walk to Mishri's home after harvesting wheat. They grow one planting of wheat and then rice during the rest of the year. Her family must pay half of the harvest to the owner of the land that they farm. Ahraura Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Revisit with the family, 2004. The Yadavs were India's participants in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, 1994 (pages: 64-65), for which they took all of their possessions out of their house for a family-and-possessions-portrait. Work..
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • RADON CURE: Defunct gold and uranium mines south of Helena, Montana, attract ailing tourists, who bask in radioactive radon gas and drink radioactive water to improve their health. Each summer, hundreds of people, come to the radon health mines to relax and treat arthritis, lupus, asthma and other chronic cripplers. Seen here with her dog, Kashi, is the owner of the Merry Widow Mine, Helen O'Neill. The Merry Widow Mine is a tunnel into the mountain, with a temperature that remains around 60 degrees in both winter and summer. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • In the afternoon, after the women work in the fields, Ermelinda Ayme's sisters often come to visit her at her home in the village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet; What the World Eats. Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The women gossip, and nurse their babies, snacking on small potatoes and corn that has been parched and roasted. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 115).  The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 106-107 for a family portrait [Image number ECU04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks' worth of food, and the family's detailed food list with total cost.)
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Working behind a plastic shroud that keeps dust out, NASA engineer Art Thompson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, works with an early mock-up of what is called Nanorover, a lunchbox-sized space vehicle that will touch down on and explore a one-kilometer-wide asteroid. The small near-Earth asteroid 4660 Nereus is the target of a Japanese space mission that will launch in 2002. When its payload is full, it will return to the Japanese spaceship, which will in turn come back to Earth in 2006. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 127.
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  • Visith Khuenkaew sits outside the family toilet room, waiting for his sister to come out so he can use the toilet. Chiang Mai, Thailand. He and his family live 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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  • 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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  • During a celebration of the first electricity to come to this village in Bhutan, visiting dignitaries join village elder Namgay at a buffet of red rice, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, beef, chicken, and a spicy cheese and chili pepper soup (close-up of table shown here). The villagers have been stockpiling food for the event. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nalim's brother Drupchu (looking out from the doorway) and Sangay (standing behind the electrical worker) watch with wonder and excitement as the first light bulb is being installed in their house. This is part of the first electricity to come to this remote, mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan as well as the surrounding region. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • Two young bulls with excess levels of testosterone battle each other on a dry riverbed (wadi) in Eastern Chad. Wadis in this part of Chad are dry nine months of the year. During that time, villagers must dig down to the water, shoring up the wells with millet stalks to keep them from collapsing. In the morning, the wadis are furiously active. One after another, teams of two or three girls fill the pools as wave after wave of animals come to drink. It's hard work: the water rapidly evaporates, sinks into the sand, and vanishes down. The animals, and the girls have to keep refilling the pools. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pama Kondo's second eldest daughter, Pai, 18, at center in pink, has just been married to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai the morning of the marriage, as is the custom, and she took part in the ritualized mourning for her lost youth but is all smiles now. Her mother, Pama is in pink, at right, and her mother's co-wife Fatoumata Toure is at right, just behind her.
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  • Samuel Tucker, a lobsterman, with his typical day's worth of food in front of his boat at the Great Diamond Island dock in Maine.   (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 6 feet, 1.5 inches tall; and 179 pounds. Sam works the lobster boat by himself, saving on labor, but in the summertime his son Scout comes along. ?He's a blast,? says Sam. ?I take him and some of his friends out; they're all just leaning over the rail in their life preservers looking to see what's in the trap when it comes up. They're pretty good at saying, 'He's got a keeper.'? Sam's state license restricts his traps to the bay, where he averages only one lobster for every two traps. After paying for fuel and bait, there's not much profit. He supplements his income with fish auction commissions, and his family's diet with venison culled from the island's deer population.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez (center), Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, monitors operations with his colleagues on an oil rig. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he runs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela.
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  • Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada and his brother Paco slaughter a sheep for Easter at their family ranch in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The sheep will be skinned, gutted, and hung in the cold house, and the meat will be eaten at Easter, when the extended family comes for dinner.
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  • Children watch as a man butchers a cow on the street for the annual religious festival of Eid al-Adha in Dakha, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. There is an electricity usage meter mounted on the earthen wall of Nalim and Namgay's house in the village.
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  • Electricity comes to the Bhutanese village of Shingkhey in 2001. The view of Namgay and Nalim's house lit with electricity for the first time, Shingkhey, Bhutan. Now, even the cows have a nightlight.
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • April and Barry James, commercial paleontologists, holding the tusk of a Siberian Mammoth. Just behind them is a prepared and mounted skeleton of a Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus), which was widespread throughout Europe in the Pleistocene Period about 2 million years ago. A skeleton in this condition can be purchased for about $35,000. Academics often frown upon such collectors, but amateurs have discovered many new species across the world. Incisor tooth comes from Siberian Mammoth. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • April and Barry James, commercial paleontologists, holding the tusk of a Siberian Mammoth. Just behind them is a prepared and mounted skeleton of a Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus), which was widespread throughout Europe in the Pleistocene Period about 2 million years ago. A skeleton in this condition can be purchased for about $35,000. Academics often frown upon such collectors, but amateurs have discovered many new species across the world. Incisor tooth comes from Siberian Mammoth. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he jogs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sheepherder Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada watches as his brother Paco quenches his thirst with a long pour of red wine from a porron, a traditional glass container designed to eliminate the need for individual glassware at their house in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Because the brothers eat mainly meat, they're largely self-sufficient when it comes to food. Because there isn't a bakery or market in their small village, they shop once a week in Guadalajara or another larger town about a half-hour drive away.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sheepherder Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada and his brother Paco eat at their home in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Because the brothers eat mainly meat, they're largely self-sufficient when it comes to food. Because there isn't a bakery or market in their small village, they shop once a week in Guadalajara or another larger town about a half-hour drive away.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada watches as his brother Paco quenches his thirst with a long pour of red wine from a porron, a traditional glass container designed to eliminate the need for individual glassware at their house in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Because the brothers eat mainly meat, they're largely self-sufficient when it comes to food. Because there isn't a bakery or market in their small village, they shop once a week in Guadalajara or another larger town about a half-hour drive away.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Honey, drizzled on a dense slice of dark sour rye bread. Beekeeper Aivars Radzins, occasionally receives bread in exchange for the honey he produces in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat,; Around the World in 80 Diets.) The loaf comes wrapped in maple leaves baked into the crust.
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  • A street is covered in blood as families butcher a cow in preparation for the Eid al-Adha annual religious festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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  • A man stands in the blood of a slaughtered cow on the street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 8-Diets.) Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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  • A pavement is awash in blood as families butcher a cow in preparation for the Eid al-Adha annual religious festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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  • A woman prepares the meat of a butchered cow for the annual religious festival of Eid al-Adha. Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.  .
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  • A pavement is awash in blood as men butcher a cow in preparation for the Eid al-Adha annual religious festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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  • Men butcher a cow in a makeshift slaughterhouse on the street in Dakha, Bangladesh as they prepare for the annual religious festival of Eid al-Adha. Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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