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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Oscar Mayer Company slaughterhouse in Perry, Iowa. This man cuts the front feet off the hogs and fills the wheelbarrow. USA.
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  • Chicken heads and feet are displayed on a market stall at the sprawling Sonargaon market  in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Little Man's legs and feet, created at AVG, an animatronics company founded by Alvaro Villa in Los Angeles, California. This animatronic figure wears a baseball cap and sneakers. Little Man "represents" the company at trade shows, as well as tirelessly delivers a humorous prerecorded spiel that is synchronized with a video on a screen behind it.
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  • Chicken feet and beef ribs are displayed at the Super Brand Mall in the district of Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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  • A display of chicken feet in Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Florida Street, Buenos Aires. Pacifico mall.
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  • Peter Menzel's telephoto lens compresses the naked bodies of New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks. The penguins swim to catch food for themselves and their chicks several times a day..
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  • A single Chinstrap penguin living among Gentoos on Cuverville Island. Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • Gentoo penguins marching down to the sea for a swim to catch food for themselves and their young chicks near Port Lockroy, Antarctic Treaty Historic Site No. 61, British Base A. Home to a small Gentoo penguin colony. Antarctica.
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  • Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Alamin Hasan with fellow very young child porters on the platform of the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A traveller hires Alamin Hasan (right) to carry his luggage at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • 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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  • A traveller hires Alamin Hasan (right) to carry his luggage 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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  • Alamin Hasan walks on the platform 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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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps 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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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps 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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  • Alamin Hasan, a porter at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with his day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan (left) confronts rival porters on the platform of 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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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps 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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  • 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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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Tunick is on a ladder taking photos as a Cessna plane flies overhead. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Schoolgirl and cow. Mysore, South India.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Photograph Peter Menzel's medium telephoto lens compresses the naked bodies of New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Buddhist stauary on Phousi Hill in the center of Luang Prabang.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA. Milking sperm from large male turkeys that are too big to breed naturally.
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  • Fresh fish offloaded onto the sand beach at Campeche, Mexico.
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  • Pig parts and lard for sale in the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA. Milking sperm from large male turkeys that are too big to breed naturally.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Keogh Hot Springs on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Resident ducks walk down a red carpet every morning to bath and eat in a fountain at the hotel during The American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP) hosted its 62nd Annual Obesity & Associated Conditions Symposium, featuring presentations by more than 40 internationally known obesity medicine experts, at The Peabody Orlando in Florida, including a presentation by authors of Hungry Planet and What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Buddhist stauary on Phousi Hill in the center of Luang Prabang.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Man with Mayan features wearing a straw sombrero in a market in Campeche, Mexico.
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  • 2 men in traditional costume stomp grapes barefoot on a stage in front of the cathedral at the yearly wine festival ceremony in Logroño, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Menghan Sunday market. A "Barefoot" Doctor using herbal healing in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Chicken for sale in the Cuernavaca municipal market, Mexico Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pig parts and lard for sale in the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Mexico. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Massage in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Nevada Nuclear Test site: crater created by Project Sedan nuclear blast in 1969 is 320 feet deep by 1289 feet in diameter. (1988)
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  • Rick Bumgardener, a self-taught gospel singer, guitar player, and lay preacher, sings an original song, ?Give Us Barabbas,? at his home in Halls, Tennessee while his dog, Bear lies at his feet. (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 February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds. Rick used to enjoy preaching and playing on Wednesday evenings at Copper Ridge Independent Missionary Baptist Church before he became too heavy to stand for long periods. Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them. To relieve boredom, he wakes up late, plays video games, plays his guitar, and watches TV until the early hours of the morning. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah with his day's worth of food at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 3200 kcals.  He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, camels' humps don't store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dried cicadas are one of many foodstuffs that may be purchased in the night food market in the village of Menghan, along with pig brain, pig feet, chicken feet, dried frogs, and fish heads. Jinhong, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 100 Bottom)
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  • For five days in a row, Kuwait firefighters attempted without success to kill an oil well fire Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous..They used a huge bell-shaped steel chamber to move the heat of the fire further away from the ground so that it would be easier to extinguish with high-pressure water hoses. They ran out of water, however, before they could finish. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • The tips of the gecko's toes are covered with corrugations of fantastic complexity. The corrugations are lines of tiny hairs. Flattened in the right way against a surface, the hairs lie so tightly on the surface that the gecko's toes literally form a kind of chemical bond with it. (In technical terms, the gecko takes advantage of van der Waals force.) This is a phenomenon that intrigues researcher Alan DiPietro, of iRobot, in Somerville, MA. Clinging to the glass wall of a terrarium opposite a real gecko, DiPietro's crude, 13-centimeter-long, 100-gram Mecho-gecko has sticky feet that let it clumsily cling to walls, at least for short intervals. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 92-93.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah (second from left) uses his brokering skills to end an argument and finalize a sale at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah negotiates with buyers while holding a camel by the tail at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah uses his brokering skills to end an argument and finalize a sale at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah negotiates with buyers at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Hundreds of camels graze around the oil well fire in the Rumaila field being worked on by Boots and Coots. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) connect hoses to water tanks and pumps by the second oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. Later in the day they failed to extinguish this fire with water and then tried to stop the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger," a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. This was also unsuccessful. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah..
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  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
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  • The Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham, Illinois. The cross is 198 feet tall, and stands at the intersection of Highway 57 and 70.
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  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, sits on a couch at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom. (Jill McTighe is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is 31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family.  MODEL RELEASED.  [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Long-EZ flying above the Mojave desert in California. The aircraft is of an unusual design, having forward-mounted "canard" wings instead of a tail plane and a rear-mounted "pusher" propeller. The canard makes the plane virtually stall proof. It has a slightly steeper tilt than the regular wing; thus the canard begins to stall before the main wing, and as it does so, it drops the nose and gains speed. The Long-EZ has a range of up to 7700 kilometers, a ceiling of 27,000 feet (8230 meters) and a top speed of 309 kilometers per hour. The aircraft is available in a kit form, manufactured by the Rutan Aircraft Factory, which can be assembled in as few as 1000 hours.
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  • In the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad, women wash clothes and themselves in water from the nearly dry riverbed, called a wadi. Water is a constant preoccupation in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, home to 30,000 refugees from Darfur, Sudan. Every day, lines of women and children carry jugs and pots of drinking and cooking water from distribution points to their tents. To get extra water to wash clothes, families dig pits in nearby wadis (seasonal river beds), creating shallow pools from which they scoop out water. In November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • One of Ralph Rohrer's turkey houses on his turkey farm in Dayton, Virginia supplying Cargill. 11,000 turkeys in a building 600 feet long.
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  • IND.MWdrv04.239.x..A young girl's feet with ankle bracelets. 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. Child, Children..
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  • Daryl Sattui's Castello di Amorosa, a  version of a Tuscan hilltop castle in Calistoga, California. 121,000 square feet. Napa Valley, California. Under construction September 2006.
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  • Mount Whitney, at 14,496 feet high, is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. It is one of the most frequently climbed mountains in the US. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rainbow Falls at Devils' Postpile National Monument. Devil's Postpile National Monument was established in 1911 by presidential proclamation. It protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery..The Devils Postpile formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry. Another wonder is in store just downstream from the Postpile at Rainbow Falls, once called "a gem unique and worthy of its name." When the sun is overhead, a bright rainbow highlights the spectacular falls. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Boots and Coots team member study a gushing oil well minutes after the fire was extinguished; the ground is still smoking. The well was capped two hours later using a "stinger" a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Boots and Coots firefighters photograph each other near a raging oil well fire in Rumaila field, Southern Iraq. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest with five billion barrels in reserve. Boots and Coots had a team of firefighters in Kuwait ready to go into Iraq several weeks before the war began. All of their equipment (including bulldozers and trucks) was flown in from Texas on large Russian cargo planes (AN-124s). Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Firefighters from the KWWK (Kuwait Wild Well Killers) attempt to kill an oil fire in the Rumaila field by guiding a "stinger" that will pump drilling mud into the damaged well. A "stinger" is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Peter Menzel photographing oil well fires at Rumaila Oil Field, in southern Iraq. The wells were set on fire with explosives placed by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began. Seven or eight wells were set ablaze but at least one other was detonated but did not ignite. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. This well was of relatively low volume. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Firefighters from the KWWK (Kuwait Wild Well Killers) attempt to kill an oil fire in the Rumaila field by guiding a "stinger" that will pump drilling mud into the damaged well. A "stinger" is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. A sudden wind shift after a sandstorm caused the oil to blow back on the workers and equipment, causing a very dangerous situation because the oil and gas could have easily ignited. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. This well is of relatively low volume. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah..
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  • A cluster bomb in the desert by an oil well fire, Southern Iraqi oil field. Unexploded cluster bombs litter the area around the burning oil wells in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field in Southern Iraq. The wells were set on fire with explosives by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began. The cluster bombs were dropped by US forces to clear the oil well area. A number of them do not explode and this unexploded ordnance is another hazard faced by the experts who have to put the fires out and restore the well heads. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Burning oil wells at Rumaila Oil Field, in southern Iraq. The wells were set on fire with explosives placed by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began. Seven or eight wells were set ablaze but at least one other was detonated but did not ignite. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah..
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  • Group of monks gather at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The temples at Angkor are spread out over some 40 miles around the village of Siem Reap, about 192 miles from the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. They were built between the eighth and 13th centuries and range from single towers made of bricks to vast stone temple complexes. Regarded as the supreme masterpiece of Khmer architecture, it is a huge pyramid temple built by Suryavarman II between 1113 and 1150. It is surrounded by a moat 570 feet wide and about four miles long. The bas-relief carvings are of the highest quality and the most beautifully executed in Angkor...
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992)
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  • Heliostats with central receiving tower reflected. Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1985).
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  • Proton decay experiment to determine the ultimate stability of matter. Dr. Narasimham. Gold mine at Kolar, site of India's proton decay experiment. The experiment consists of 150 tons of iron tube arranged in a cubic layout 6000 feet (1828 meters) below ground. Each tube is converted to act like a large Geiger counter, and is designed to detect the products from the decay of a proton. The half- life of the proton is estimated at 10 to the power 34 years, so the experiment has to contain as many protons as possible for the probability of an event occurring to be realistic. India. MODEL RELEASED (1985)
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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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  • The Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner, holds a loaf of bread at her parent's bakery in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. She's wearing her Bread Queen sash and crown, which she dons whenever she appears at festivals, trade shows, and educational events, representing the baker's guild of Germany's greater Cologne region. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive.   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner, cooking at her home in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive.   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz, the Bread Queen, with her horse, Zorro, at a riding stable in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gordon Stine, a farmer, ladles out hearty homemade vegetable and beef stew for his wife, Denise, after a day of corn harvesting at their farm in St. Elmo, Illinois.    (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 4,100 kcals. He is 56 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 245 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • At home after work, meat grinder Kelvin Lester grills hamburger patties, well-done, for the family's supper as his adopted daughter Kiara looks on. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 2,600 kcals. He is 44; 5 feet 11 inches and 195 pounds.
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  • Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi, a Reform rabbi (center, in white shirt) leads a Shabbat service in a small portable building that is kindergarten by day and synagogue at night near his home in Tzur Hadassah, Israel. (Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of October was 3100 Kcals. He is 43 years of age; 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 165 pounds.  Tzur Hadassah, located 15 minutes southwest of Jerusalem is a communal settlement where residents lease land and houses from the state of Israel for a 99-year period.
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  • Munna Kailash a rickshaw driver ferries his wife, niece, and son on a shopping trip in  in Varanas, Utta Pradesh province, India,. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. India has about 10 million cycle rickshaws, including passenger and cargo pedal carts. Although Munna owns his rickshaw, most rickshaw pullers rent from fleet owners for about $0.60 (USD) per day. A typical puller in a big city earns about $4 to $5 (USD) per day. Although slower than two-cycle smoke-spewing auto-rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws don't pollute the air, and the only heat they add to the atmosphere is from the bodies of their drivers.
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  • Sunday dinner of baked chicken, potatoes, and frozen veggies prepared by Jill McTighe at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is 31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family. ?Do I cook? Yes, but not cakes. I roast. Nothing ever, ever is fat-fried!?  Jill herself is MODEL RELEASED. [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Huang Neng, a welder from Henan Province sits in Pudong's Lujiazui Central Green Park in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, which will top out at 48 floors, a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • George Bahna, an engineering company executive and martial arts instructor, in his office in Zamelek, Cairo, Egypt. (George Bahna is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 29 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 165 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student, at the Ten Ton Studio in Brooklyn 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 on a day in the month of October was 2400 kcals. She is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 135 pounds. At a healthier weight than when modeling full-time, she feels good but laments that she's making much less money. MODEL RELEASED.
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