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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Daily table tennis at the Otter Club. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • Virtual Reality: Rick Walsh, director for the Resource Center for the Handicapped in Seattle, has an office that he runs with voice command activated computers. He is working with the Human Interface Technology Lab on innovative uses of Virtual Reality for the handicapped. Model Released
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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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  • Elephant orphanage at Pinnawella, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke's glasses. Sir Arthur is best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  • Aukana, Sri Lanka. 5th century Buddha thru glasses of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Sir Arthur is best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke's daily dose of afternoon table tennis at the Otter Club. He is playing against one of his valets Lenin, and takes his game very seriously. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000, page 77. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka.Sir Arthur C. Clarke holds a DVD copy of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Referring to the DVD in his hand, he said, "If I were able to give Thomas Edison this disc, he would have no idea of what it was or how it worked. It would be magic." Sir Arthur is best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka.Sir Arthur C. Clarke holds a DVD copy of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Referring to the DVD in his hand, he said, "If I were able to give Thomas Edison this disc, he would have no idea of what it was or how it worked. It would be magic." (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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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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  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon (view of his hands and breathing tube). (1988)
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq arrives at the VA Long Beach Medical Center in Inglewood, California for his exercises.    (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet at home with his father, who is helping him get dressed, in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, eats breakfast at his parents home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the courtyard that morning, Li Jinxian husks corn from their cornfield under the watchful eye of Great-grandmother Cui Wu. The family will eat some of the corn and trade the rest; the husks go to the sheep. 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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  • Inventor and Macarthur foundation winner Ralph Hotchkiss in his Oakland, California, workshop designing wheelchairs. Hotchkiss is himself confined to a wheelchair. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fossil Trade: The annual Arizona Mineral & Fossil Trade show, which is one of the world's largest gatherings of commercial and wholesale fossil and gem traders. Tucson, Arizona (1991)
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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur is best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. At Galle Face Hotel Beach next to Hotel, Sir Arthur C Clarke's glasses. ACC is Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke at Galle Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur Clarke watches DVD of 2001: A Space Odyssey. (wrote 3001 at Hotel) (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Daily table tennis at the Otter Club. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke donned scuba gear for this photograph for the first time since 1991 and dives in the pool at the Otter Swim Club. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in part for the excellent scuba diving more than 40 years ago. He is too frail to dive in the ocean. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke donned scuba gear for this photograph for the first time since 1991 and dives in the pool at the Otter Swim Club. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in part for the excellent scuba diving more than 40 years ago. He is too frail to dive in the ocean. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000 issue, page 76. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka.Sir Arthur C. Clarke donned scuba gear for this photograph for the first time since 1991 and dives in the pool at the Otter Swim Club. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in part for the excellent scuba diving more than 40 years ago. He is too frail to dive in the ocean (he has post-polio syndrome). He is seen here gesturing obscenely in response to Peter Menzel's gesture asking him to swim overhead one more time to take another photo. Sir Arthur is best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits at his desk with his one-eyed Chihuahua, "Pepsi" tucked inside his shirt. Clarke enjoys telling visitors that this is his reenactment of the alien baby bursting forth from the chest of the astronaut in the sci-fi movie Alien. Published in Stern Magazine, 28 December 2000 issue, pages 76-77. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka.Sir Arthur C. Clarke works at his desk in his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (He has post-polio syndrome) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Colombo, Sri Lanka..Sir Arthur C. Clarke sits in his wheelchair (he has post-polio syndrome) upon a checkerboard-patterned area outside the grand seaside Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Clarke wrote 3001, the last book of his acclaimed science fiction series while living in this hotel. (He wrote 2001 while living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City). Protecting Clarke from the fierce noon sun, is the hotel doorman, Kattarapatte Chadthu Kuttan, 70, who has worked at the Galle Face Hotel for 58 years, since age 12. (2001) Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq shaves at his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq in his wheelchair outside his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, wheels himself down a sidewalk near his home in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, shaves while his father changes his sheets at their home in Inglewood, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe has already spent an hour in the bathroom going through his morning ritual.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, goes for lunch at his favorite neighborhood café, Petite Sara, across busy West Pico Boulevard in Inglewood, California. (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 the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30; 5'10" and 135 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, gripping his leg tightly as he experiences one of many episodes of phantom pain at his parents home in Inglewood, California. (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 the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 135 pounds. Felipe was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. Damaged nerves that normally enervate a missing or paralyzed body part can trigger the body's most basic warning that something isn't right: pain. Felipe experiences these phantom pains, which feel like stabbing electric shocks, dozens of times a day; they cause him to grip his leg tightly for a moment or two until the sensation subsides. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, with his parents and his typical day's worth of food at their home in Inglewood, California.  (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 the month of September was 2100 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet 10 inches tall; and 135 pounds. Adams was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet while serving in Baghdad, Iraq. Damaged nerves that normally enervate a missing or paralyzed body part can trigger the body's most basic warning that something isn't right: pain. Felipe experiences these phantom pains, which feel like stabbing electric shocks, dozens of times a day; they cause him to grip his leg tightly for a moment or two until the sensation subsides.
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  • An elderly family member of the Lagavales cannot walk well anymore and spends most of his day lounging on the hand woven mats on the floor of his house. Western Samoa. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.
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  • Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In Clarke's home office in his wheelchair, his one-eyed Chihuahua, "Pepsi" sits waiting for Clarke to return from his nap. Best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  • The disfigured hand of a Dani woman. In Dani culture, the fingers of women are severed from the first knuckle at an early age as a tribute to family members who have died. Amuloke: "My older sister died and my mother cut them (my fingers) off when I was five years old with a sharp stone axe, all of them at once. Now I feel a bit angry with my mother because she cut them. When I see the other fingers complete, I feel bad about it. The cut fingers aren't good for holding. They don't work very well." Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82)
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  • Pioneers in blue flak jackets and helmets probing for landmines near a new training camp for 229 volunteers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Pioneers in blue flak jackets and helmets probing for landmines uncover a small hockey puck size landmine near a new training camp for 229 volunteers in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Rick Bumgardner at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Disabled due to his 500 pound weight and diabetes, Rick is dieting to reduce his weight by 100 pounds so that he can get gastric bypass surgery to lose another 200 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Disabled boy gets a helpful push on his tricycle wheelchair from a friend on the way to school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali.
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  • One of General Aidid's tanks captured and disabled in a battle for Keysaney Hospital. Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A disabled Vietnamese War veteran friend of Thuan Nguyen Van at his son's house in  Hanoi, Vietnam. (Thuan Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rick Bumgardner at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Disabled due to his 500 pound weight and diabetes, Rick is dieting to reduce his weight by 100 pounds so that he can get gastric bypass surgery to lose another 200 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A disabled Vietnamese War veteran friend of Vietnamese veteran Thuan Nguyen Van drives his motorized cart in Hanoi, Vietnam. ( Thuan Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Today, as war veterans, they have special dispensation to operate motorized carts on the streets of Hanoi. They use them to haul goods from one place to another around the city.
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  • Robotic autonomous-control technology will become more and more useful to the disabled in the future, as Hugh Herr can testify. A double amputee, MIT Leg Lab researcher Herr is developing a robotic knee. Standard prosthetic joints cannot sense the forces acting on a human leg. But a robotic knee can sense and react to its environment, allowing amputees to walk through snow or on steep slopes now impassable for them. Cambridge, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 181.
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  • Rick Bumgardner with his wife and son at their home in Knoxville, Tennessee. Rick, disabled due to his 500 pound weight and diabetes, is dieting to reduce his weight by 100 pounds so that he can get gastric bypass surgery to lose another 200 pounds.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Doug Brown visits his butcher in Ipswich, Australia (near Brisbane) to purchase one weeks' worth of meat for his family's upcoming photo shoot. Normally Doug would buy enough for two weeks since he gets a fortnightly government disability check. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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