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  • NASA astronaut Leland Melvin on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Atlantis 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 in the month of February was 2700 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 6 feet tall; and 205 pounds. The early days of space travel were dominated by Tang, Space Food Sticks, and a variety of pastes squeezed from aluminum tubes—all designed to prevent the levitation of liquids and crumbs, which can be hazardous to the equipment. Over the years, space menus have become more palatable, and now astronauts can even enjoy fresh fruits for the first few days of a mission. The challenges of weightlessness extend to photography. Even with three fellow astronauts helping to wrangle Leland’s floating food as shuttle commander Charles Hobaugh took the photo, all of the items in Leland’s daily fare aren’t clearly visible. Photo credit: NASA  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A clump of floating water hyacinths in Lake Victoria near the Ssese Islands, Uganda. Thick mats of water hyacinths have curtailed fishing on the lake, creating a huge environmental problem for locals whose livelihood depends on fishing.
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  • Koi Fish in the backyard pond of Mr. Cheu. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars each.  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Astronauts get together for a potluck dinner in the galley of the Unity Node of the International Space Station.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The crews share a meal of mostly canned treats saved for the occasion: crab, oysters, clams, tuna, mushrooms, and calf cheeks in plum sauce. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, with his feet anchored in loops for stability, retrieves food from his locker in Atlantis galley on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis. (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 2700 kcals. He is 45; 6' and 205 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Li River in Yangshuo, China. In the background are karst mountains, which are famous landscape features of this part of China near Guillin in Guangxi Porovice. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Breakers Water Park in Tucson, Arizona. A lightning detector is used to monitor the proximity of lightning, giving the lifeguards time to warn the swimmers when to get out of the water. 1993.
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels a 'flyer' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels a 'flyer' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
    USA_SPRT_12_xs.jpg
  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
    USA_SPRT_11_xs.jpg
  • Hot air balloon with tourists in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • An iceberg calving and splitting in half in the S. Shetand Island off Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer. Off the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • An iceberg calving and splitting in half in the S. Shetand Island off Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer. Off the Antarctic Peninsula.
    ANT_110119_166_x.jpg
  • Leopard seals on an ice flow near Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula
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  • Tourist dinner boat. The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
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  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
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  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Tourist boat.
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  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Tourist boat.
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  • BASE jumper parachuting from 900-foot New River Gorge bridge on Bridge Day in West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Angkor Wat temple seen in the reflection of the moat. 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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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
    USA_SPRT_16_xs.jpg
  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Carl Doumani and Pam Hunter house on the Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Vineyard reservoir. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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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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  • 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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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Mekong Estates guest house complex in Ban Saylom, Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120122_062_x.jpg
  • An iceberg calving and splitting in half in the S. Shetand Island off Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer. Off the Antarctic Peninsula.
    ANT_110119_165_x.jpg
  • An iceberg calving and splitting in half in the S. Shetand Island off Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer. Off the Antarctic Peninsula.. .
    ANT_110119_164_x.jpg
  • The River Walk along the San Antonio River in downtown San Antonio, Texas. Tourist boat.
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
    USA_SPRT_04_xs.jpg
  • Angkor Wat temple, 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..
    CAM_04_xs.jpg
  • 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"
    SWI_121012_272_x.jpg
  • "Costaleros" carrying an ornate float through the streets of Salamanca during Semana Santa (Holy Week) in the rain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • "Costaleros" carrying an ornate float through the streets of Salamanca during Semana Santa (Holy Week) in the rain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
    SPA_070407_550_rwx.jpg
  • "Costaleros" carrying an ornate float through the streets of Salamanca during Semana Santa (Holy Week) in the rain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
    SPA_070407_545_rwx.jpg
  • "Costaleros" carrying an ornate float through the streets of Salamanca during Semana Santa (Holy Week) in the rain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
    SPA_070407_536_rwx.jpg
  • A procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • A procession leaving the cathedral during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Hooded penitents in a procession during Holy week in Madrid, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_239_x.jpg
  • State Farm Insurance Balloon. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_143_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Sausages made by master butcher Marcus Dirr with his father Peter Dirr, chief butcher, at his shop in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_281_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_237_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_226_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_221_x.jpg
  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_140_x.jpg
  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_136_x.jpg
  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_132_x.jpg
  • Creamland Dairy Cow. Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_130_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_090_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_089_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_085_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_042_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_041_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
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  • Sikh temple, Yuba City, California.
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  • USA_SIKH_06_xs.Sikh festival parade at the Sikh Temple, Yuba City, California..
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  • Kayaking off Half Moon Island, home to over 3000 pairs of chinstrap penguins, many with chicks at this time of year, late in the Antarctic summer.
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  • A group of minke whales surface in iceberg littered waters in the Antarctic Peninsula, seven miles south of the Errera channel. .
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  • Two minke whales surface in iceberg littered waters in the Antarctic Peninsula, seven miles south of the Errera channel..
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  • Leopard seals on an ice flow near Petermann Island, home to the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins, located below the Lemaire channel, near the Antarctic peninsula.
    ANT_110115_436_x.jpg
  • Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico. Mass assencion on Sunday morning at dawn of 500 hot air balloons.
    USA_101003_276_x.jpg
  • Aerial of Sikh festival parade at the Sikh Temple, rural Yuba City, California.
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  • Minke whales plough through iceberg littered waters in the Antarctic Peninsula, seven miles south of the Errera channel. .
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  • Faith D'aluisio kayaking in Antarctica off the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists. The icebreaker is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. Skontorp Cove. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dan, a tour guide, kayaking in Antarctica off the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. Skontorp Cove.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman, in his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River with his typical day's worth of food in  Manacapuru, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and also tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A boy stands on the deck of a river boat that has stopped alongside the floating home of João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman who lives on a branch of the Solimoes River 6 hours upstream from the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.   (João Agustinho Cardoso is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets dives into the  pihranha invested Solimoes River from the floating home of João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman who lives on a branch of the Solimoes River upriver from the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets with fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva at his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River near Manacapuru, Brazil. (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Photo was taken after the food portrait. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • Glass and steel art on a floating island in the harbor by the Opera House, Den Norske Opera and Ballett, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Forbes Island, a man-made floating island home in San Francisco Bay, Sausalito, California, with Alcatraz & Bay bridge in the background.
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  • Port of Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The World, a luxury floating condo ship.
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  • The World, a luxury floating condo ship at the Port of Ushuaia, the provincial capital of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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  • (1992) A glob of DNA floating in solution in a vial at Cellmark Diagnostics, England's first commercial DNA fingerprinting lab. DNA consists of two sugar- phosphate backbones, arranged in a double helix, linked by nucleotide bases. There are 4 types of base; adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). Sequences of these bases make up genes, which encode an organism's genetic information. DNA Fingerprinting. .
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso floating home on the Salimoes River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Brazilian fisherman João Agustinho Cardoso at his floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agustinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
    BRA_071107_406_xw.jpg
  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
    BRA_071107_243_xw.jpg
  • Brazilian fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva's floating home on the Salimones River in near the town of Manacapuru, Brazil.  (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Borrowing from Star Wars, engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center, just south of San Francisco, CA, are developing a personal assistant robot that can hover over an astronaut's shoulder in space, or work at the direction of an astronaut in situations too dangerous for a human. Floating weightlessly, the machine could have many uses: patrolling corridors for gas leaks, reminding astronauts about the tasks on their to-do lists, or serving as a communication link when people are busy using both hands. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 124.
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