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  • Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, at left, with a young apprentice, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been designated a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Children put out just-washed fabric to dry in the sun near the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • Harjeza Sedighi Fard, 75, hand block-printing cotton fabric in the bazaar at Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Cutting fabric at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress. (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets) The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • Harjeza Sedighi Fard, 75, seated, and his family sort hand block-printed cotton fabrics in the bazaar at Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at Khan al-Khalili souq (market) in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Alamin Hasan pushes a trolley at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Santo Domingo, Ecuador; interior, Colorado Indian home.
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  • Ruma Akhter (center) walks under washing lines in the slum settlement near her home in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lao Textile Natural Dye shop and workshop in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • David Griffin shops at the outdoor market at Otavalo, Ecuador.
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  • Shoppers go about their business inside a souk (market) in the central Iranian desert city of Yazd, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A busy day at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress.  (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh.  While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • Ruma Akhter, a seamstress and one of over 6,000 employees at the Ananta Apparels company  in Dhaka, Bangladesh with her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food for a typical day in December was 1800 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet tall; and 86 pounds. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Sewing jeans at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress. (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • A busy day at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress.(Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets) The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • A Himba woman carries an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) filled with milk after milking cows in a corral in the village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. During the rainy season there is plenty of grass for the animals to eat but the mud and manure of the corral are problematic.
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  • Ruma Akhter, a seamstress and one of over 6,000 employees at the Ananta Apparels company  in Dhaka, Bangladesh with her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED
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  • Toshiko Taira, 87, of Kijoka, Okinawa, Japan. Many Okinawans used to work into their nineties, farming, and weaving bashofu, a fine fabric made from a local banana fiber. Bashofu weaving was a home-based craft, and highly valued, but there are few, if any, weavers producing the fabric at home anymore. The workshop of Toshiko Taira, 87, and her daughter, in the northern Okinawa village of Kijoka, is virtually all that is left of the art. She has been named a national treasure of Japan. She and her daughter are attempting to keep the fine practice alive. Although older generations of Okinawans are still living into their one-hundredth year, some say that the decline of weaving in the home was the beginning of the decline of the lengthy life spans of Okinawans.
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  • Cows lounge on the sandy shore of the Ganges River near the the Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) which is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi.  Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat. A man uses a long bamboo pole that once was part of the litter fashioned to carry a body to the cremation grounds at Harishchandra Ghat to flip the unburned legs and arms back into the fire. He uses the pole to smash the skulls open as well so that it burns more easily. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Mark Weiser (b. 1952), director of research at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. One of Silicon Valley's most visionary computer companies, Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the computer workstation, the mouse and the "graphical user interface" - the now universal system of interacting with computers through windows and icons. Mark Weiser worked on ubiquitous computing (?The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.?) After-hours he was the drummer for a rock band called Severe Tire Damage..He died of cancer in (1997)
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  • Venders selling cremation supplies line the many narrow alleys leading to Manikarnika Ghat and Jalasi Ghat. People pass through at all times of the day and night and the cremation site never closes. Colorful shrouds in auspicious colors are sold by the piece. The color red denotes prosperity and hope. Yellow is the color of innocence. The largely polyester fabric doesn't burn very well so is often set aside and burned separately so that it doesn't impede the process of burning the body. The workers hoeing the ashes picks up remnants and wind them around their heads as decoration.
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  • A friend ties her baby to her back with a piece of fabric after an afternoon visit with Pama Kondo in the Natomo family compound courtyard in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, an isolated community between Djenne and Mopti on the banks of the Niger River. Relaxing with one of her children is Pama, and 11 year old Pai leans against the mud brick wall. Published in Material World, page 18. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River.
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics at the University of California, Berkeley. Micro fabrication Lab: Brett Warneck and Bryan Atwood (part of the Pister Group working on "smart dust".) Model Released
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  • Village life inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Iraqi police officers and their U.S counterparts patrol a street in a fabricated Iraqi village at Fort Irwin, California. The sets are used for combat training exercises before the troops deploy to Iraq.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • One of the actors in crisis simulations at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town at Camp Irwin in California.
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  • A soldier with a feigned injury at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound U.S. soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors dressed as Iraqi men sit at a market stall in the fabricated Iraqi village if Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • A severed leg in military boots, one of the tell-tell signs of a staged meltdown in the fabricated Iraqi village town of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures in the Mojave Desert, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • The fabricated village at Fort Irwin simulates life in Iraq for soldiers to the last detail, complete with consultations of Iraqi officials to resolve disputes.
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  • A market inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, receives breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left), a soldier at Fort Irwin, California, smokes with one of his counterparts during a break.  (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Women walk on the street in a fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, at Camp Irwin,  California.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, having an MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) lunch at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Women walk past a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • An actor dressed as an Iraqi man stands outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Women in burqas walk past an abandoned bicycle outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California in the Mojave Desert.  The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A photographer films some of the actors at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    USA_080915_033_xw.jpg
  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures  at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq. Some actors are actually amputees, adding to the realism of the scene, which is embellished with fake blood and dismembered limbs.
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  • Military vehicles patrol the streets of Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • A soldier walks towards the Lyndon Marcus International Hotel in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • A severed leg and an abandoned gun, tell-tell signs of a staged meltdown in the fabricated Iraqi village town of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, with his typical day's worth of food at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. During a two-week stint before his second deployment to Iraq, he spends 12-hour shifts manning the radio communication tent (behind him). He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat). His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. ?Everybody hates that one. It's horrible,? he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village?one of 13 built for training exercises, with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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