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  • A mother in Dubai cooks her family's lunch in their new kitchen building that is separate from the rest of the house. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public because she is entertaining guests from outside her family. As an indigenous citizen of the United Arab Emirates her family is entitled to a substantial subsidy from the government and jobs for the males in the household. Their high standard of living is a far cry from her parents' life as nomadic Bedouin camel herders of the desert. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (From a photographic gallery of images of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 54) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Portrait of a housewife at home. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public, because she is entertaining guests from outside her family.
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  • Downtown shopping district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A man in shorts, polo shirt and sunglasses walks with his wife who is covered from head to toe in black with only her eyes visible.
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  • Portrait of young Palestinian woman in Dubai, United Arab Emirates..
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  • Mohammad Riahi, a part time restaurant manager and taxi driver eats breakfast with his family at their home in the city of Yazd, Iran.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He lives with his father and mother, and will until he marries. Even then, he and his bride will be offered the second floor of his parent's home. At the restaurant he eats whatever he feels like eating. At home though, he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Professor Fumio Hara and Assistant Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi's female face robot (second-generation) at Science University of Tokyo, Japan, has shape-memory electric actuators that move beneath the robot's silicon skin to change the face into different facial expressions much as muscles do in the human face. The actuators are very slow to return to their original state and remedying this is one of the research projects facing the Hara and Kobayashi Lab. The robot head is lit from within by a pencil light strobe cloaked in a yellow gel. It was photographed in the neon bill-boarded area of Shinjuku, a section of Tokyo, on a rainy evening at rush hour. Robo sapiens cover image. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species.
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  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • An oil well fire specialist of Red Adair, Co. of Texas works to prepare a well for capping by sawing off the damaged well head in the Kuwait oil fields. The fire has already been extinguished but the well is spewing oil and gas into the air under high pressure. The trick is to cut through the metal casing cleanly without causing any sparks that could reignite the well and incinerate the workers. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War (July, 1991).
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  • An oil well fire specialist of Red Adair, Co. of Texas works to prepare a well for capping by sawing off the damaged well head in the Kuwait oil fields. The fire has already been extinguished but the well is spewing oil and gas into the air under high pressure. The trick is to cut through the metal casing cleanly without causing any sparks that could reignite the well and incinerate the workers. The company was one of those brought in to fight the Kuwait oil well fires after the end of the Gulf War (July, 1991).
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of 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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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of 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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  • 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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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of 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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  • Truck drivers enjoy a mid-morning meal of sheep meat, potato, onion, tomato, and flat bread in a rustic restaurant stall at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works as a broker. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman walks past a pile of garbage at Shari Khayyamiya, a tentmakers street and market area in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • A hooded penitent in a night-time procession 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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  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
    USA_110721_034_x.jpg
  • At the Napa Valley Festival del Sole, Joyce Yang joined violinist Sarah Chang, cellist Nina Kotova, violist Katie Kadarauch and soprano Nino Machaidze in a chamber music program that included the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, at Castello di Amorosa, Napa Valley winery castle built by Dario Sattui.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Blood vessels of an adult at Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits.
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  • Austin Richards of Santa Barbara, CA, is zapped by his homemade Tesla Coil. Richards wears a homemade robot outfit with a birdcage covering his head. The electrical "lightning" bolts his Tesla coil zaps him with do not do any harm because he is surrounded by metal that acts a Faraday cage, harmlessly channeling the charges to the ground and protecting his body from shocks. Richards performs these stunts for trade shows and parties. Here he is doing this for a block party near Santa Barbara. California, USA
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  • Austin Richards of Santa Barbara, CA, is zapped by his homemade Tesla Coil. Richards wears a homemade robot outfit with a birdcage covering his head. The electrical "lightning" bolts his Tesla coil zaps him with do not do any harm because he is surrounded by metal that acts a Faraday cage, harmlessly channeling the charges to the ground and protecting his body from shocks. Richards performs these stunts for trade shows and parties. Here he is doing this for a block party near Santa Barbara. California, USA
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  • Kazuo Ukita relaxes in an ofuro (a Japanese bath that is meant for relaxation rather than washing). The water is generally kept in the tub and warmed before each use. Family members wash squatting on a stool with a bucket of hot water and a shower hose before entering the bath. When not in use the bath is covered with an insulated cover (seen behind Kazuo Ukita's head.) Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba women sit around a fire at their home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, they cover themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • George Callison, an expert on dinosaurs, and an artist, sketches and makes notes for upcoming dinosaur models and exhibits in front of a Tyrannosaurus Rex head  at the Dinamation factory in Los Angeles, California. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
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  • Workers paint the head and foot of robotic Allosaurus, part of a collection of robotic dinosaurs made by the California-based company Dinamation International. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
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  • A dinamation robotic model of an Apatosaurus (with the skin removed showing the metal skeleton) at the Dallas Science museum. A time exposure shows how the neck and head respond to joystick commands. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
    USA_SCI_DINO_03_xs.jpg
  • A dinamation robotic model of an Apatosaurus (with the skin removed showing the metal skeleton) at the Dallas Science museum. A time exposure shows how the neck and head respond to joystick commands. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
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  • Professor Fumio Hara of the Hara and Kobayashi Lab at Science University of Tokyo with his lab's first-generation robot head, without its skin. This three-dimensional human-like animated pneumatic face robot can recognize human facial expressions as well as produce realistic facial expressions in real time. The animated face robot, covered in latex "skin" is equipped with a CCD camera in the left eye and is able to collect facial image data that is used for on-line recognition of human facial expressions. (Draped in white veil by photographer.)
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
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  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A Himba tribeswoman fixes her hair outside her home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_422_xw.jpg
  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
    NAM_090308_024_xw.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_106_xw.jpg
  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shopping with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend..
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  • University of California Berkeley biologist Robert Full analyzes centipede motion by observing the insect's movement across a glass plate covered with "photoelastic" gelatin. On either side of the gel are thin polarizing filters that together block all light coming through the glass. When the centipede's feet contact the gel, they temporarily deform it, altering the way light goes through it and allowing some to pass through the filters. In the test above, one group of legs works on one side of the animal's midsection while two other groups work near its head and tail. UC Berkeley (California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 94 bottom..
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  • A dinamation robotic model of an Apatosaurus (with the skin removed showing the metal skeleton) at the Dallas Science museum. A time exposure shows how the neck and head respond to joystick commands. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
    USA_SCI_DINO_16_xs.jpg
  • At the Science Museum in Dallas, Texas, school children watch the animated robot dinosaurs Apatosauruses (half size, made by Dinamation International) swing their heads close to them. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
    USA_SCI_DINO_11_xs.jpg
  • The head of robotic Allosaurus, part of a collection of robotic dinosaurs made by the California-based company Dinamation International. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
    USA_SCI_DINO_06_xs.jpg
  • At Dinamation International's factory in southern California, artists paint the head and sail of Dimetrodon, a reptile that lived before the dinosaurs. The body of this model will be left bare to show the inner mechanical workings. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
    USA_SCI_DINO_04_xs.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with a child speaks to three men  outside a grocery store in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
    NAM_090307_139_xw.jpg

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