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  • A boy digs for water from a nearly dry riverbed (called a wadi) in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. 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 the month of November, the camp wadi had water three feet below the surface. As the dry season advances, the sand pits get deeper and deeper.
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  • Coober Pedy opal mine. South Australia.
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  • Women digging trenches and carrying dirt in baskets on their heads in Delhi, India;.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • A lone woman in black chador (tent) walks along one of the labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Squat toilet in a private home in Menghan, Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • Monks' squat toilet at the Golden Temple outside Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, China.
    CHI_TOI_01_xs.jpg
  • A freshly dug grave in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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  • Villagers fetch water from a village-dug waterhole in a Maasai compound, Near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • A flood-lit waterhole near the Halali restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia. Strategically located halfway between Okaukuejo and Namutoni, Halali is situated at the base of a dolomite hill, amongst shady Mopane trees.  A flood-lit waterhole which is viewed from an elevated vantage point provides wildlife viewing throughout the day and into the night.
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  • Villagers fetch water from a village-dug waterhole in a Maasai compound, Near Narok, Kenya. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
    KEN_090225_709_xw.jpg
  • A makeshift tent shower used by Abdel Karim Aboubakar's family in the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. (Abdel Karim Aboubakar is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Toilet on a Niger River boat that dumps into the river in Mali.
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  • Joshua Tree National Monument, Southern California at sunrise.
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  • CT Scan of a horse's head at a California Veterinary teaching hospital. Veterinarian School, University of California, Davis. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Elephant: Elephant orphanage at Pinnawella, Sri Lanka.
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  • Warning sign near the opal mines.  Coober Pedy. South Australia.
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  • Rock tombs from Roman times at the Remelluri Winery in Labastida, .La Rioja, Spain.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Coober Pedy opal mine. South Australia.
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  • Town of Doksany: traffic in front of a restaurant. Czech Republic.
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  • An armed guard in a food warehouse. The port was looted after a firefight the night before, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people. Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole at dawn. The bore hole has seismic monitoring equipment in it. (1987]
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake near Cap Hope village, Greenland. The steel pikes on poles are used to chop holes in the ice.   After a day of dogsled travel, seal hunter Emil Madsen, his wife Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.
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  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake near Cap Hope village, Greenland. The steel pikes on poles are used to chop holes in the ice.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)    After a day of dogsled travel, seal hunter Emil Madsen, his wife Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil and Erika Madsen's nephew Julian bites down on an Arctic char, half in jest, for the camera because the fish is large, but locals say that children often eat small fish raw. It's said to "tickle their bellies." After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, they yank them out of the hole with a practiced motion. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 204).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After a day of dogsled travel, Emil, Erika, and the children head out to fish for arctic char. After chopping holes in the ice with a pike, family members lower down hooks baited with seal fat. When the char bite, Erika yanks them out of the hole with a practiced motion.  Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 149).
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Staff at the Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole seismic monitor. (1987]
    KAZ_SCI_NUKE_02_xs.jpg
  • Sailboat near Akademik Vernadsky Station on Galendez Island. Built and previously operated by the British. Its claim to fame is the discovery by British scientists, at what was then called Halley Station, of the hole in the ozone layer in 1985. Antarctica.
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  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole seismic monitor. Jon Berger (left], with a technician checks the wiring as a heavy booted Soviet scientist descends the stairs. (1987]
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  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_46_xs.jpg
  • Medicine: Brain Operation. Doctors adjust a metal guide that is secured by screws in order to precisely place a radioactive tube through a hole drilled in the patient's skull to destroy a brain tumor. (1983)
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  • Forensic research. (1992) Argentine Forensic Anthropology team in morgue of San Isidrio Hospital measuring and cataloguing bones of a "desparacido" a disappeared Argentinian.  Mercedes Doretti (sleeveless), Patricia Bernardi, Silvana Turner (short hair), Carlos (Marco) Somigliana (beard), Luis Fondebrider.  Data is entered into a computer and eventually they hope to match data to make an ID.  They hope to extract DNA from bones for DNA fingerprinting. Skeleton in a forensic laboratory. The bones have been numbered for identification. The researchers are trying to determine the identity of the body, which can be done by extracting and studying DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the chemical responsible for heredity, and is different in each individual. These are the remains of someone abducted and murdered during the military rule in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The hole in the skull is testament to a violent death.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Bob Sorensen, an assistant golf course superintendent of The Golf Club at Redlands Mesa in Grand Junction, Colorado moves a putting hole during an early morning inspection of the golf course. (Bob Sorensen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He played football at Mesa State College in Grand Junction and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. Just before he took a desk job in his chosen profession he decided that he didn't want a desk job and found one that requires his constant attendance of the great outdoors, at a golf course at the foot of the majestic Colorado National Monument.  He earned a second degree in turf management, supervises a small crew of greenskeepers, and coaches high school football at Palisade High School.
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  • Sailboat near Akademik Vernadsky Station on Galendez Island. Built and previously operated by the British. Its claim to fame is the discovery by British scientists, at what was then called Halley Station, of the hole in the ozone layer in 1985. Antarctica.
    ANT_110116_171_x.jpg
  • The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC]: Seismic Monitor Nuclear test project in The Republic of Kazakhstan. In 1986 the USSR Academy of Sciences allowed the NRDC to install seismic monitoring instruments within a few hundred kilometers of their nuclear test site to verify that the USSR was not testing nuclear weapons underground during the nuclear test ban. By allowing this monitoring on their soil and by monitoring near the Nevada test site in the USA, mutual trust was built that facilitated the end of the Cold War. Karkarlinsk Field lab bore hole at dawn. Jet from Altna Ata to Moscow. (1987]
    KAZ_SCI_NUKE_05_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice was photographed by the schoolyard fence near where he was struck by lightning. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_48_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_47_xs.jpg
  • Lightning tolerance test. A researcher holding two carbon-fiber panels from a helicopter, showing their tolerance of lightning. The panel at right is simple carbon fiber, and has had a large hole punched in it by simulated lightning. This is because it is an electrical insulator, so cannot disperse the electricity across its surface. The panel at left has a thin grid of copper wire coating the surface. This allows the electrical charge to disperse over the surface, causing nothing more than damage to the paint. Photographed at Lightning Technologies Inc. of Massachusetts, USA. 1992.MODEL RELEASED
    USA_SCI_LIG_45_xs.jpg
  • Medicine: Close up of Brain Operation. Doctors insert a plastic tube through a hole drilled in the patient's skull to destroy a brain tumor. The tube and pellets are precisely placed using a metal guide that is secured by screws. (1983)
    USA_SCI_MED_04_xs.jpg
  • Forensic research. (1992) Argentine Forensic Anthropology team in morgue of San Isidrio Hospital measuring and cataloguing bones of a "desparacido" a disappeared Argentinian.  Mercedes Doretti (sleeveless), Patricia Bernardi, Silvana Turner (short hair), Carlos (Marco) Somigliana (beard), Luis Fondebrider.  Data is entered into a computer and eventually they hope to match data to make an ID.  They hope to extract DNA from bones for DNA fingerprinting. Skeleton in a forensic laboratory. The bones have been numbered for identification. The researchers are trying to determine the identity of the body, which can be done by extracting and studying DNA. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the chemical responsible for heredity, and is different in each individual. These are the remains of someone abducted and murdered during the military rule in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The hole in the skull is testament to a violent death.  Buenos Aires, Argentina. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
    ARG_SCI_DNA_03_xs.jpg
  • Pencil-sized robotic surgical instruments allow heart surgeons to perform operations through a centimeter-long hole in the patient's chest. Doctors insert robotic instruments through minute "ports" in the body. Instead of hovering over the operating table, surgeons sit at a console a few feet away, controlling the robo-scalpels with a pair of joysticklike grippers. Each tool has a patented EndoWrist mechanism that allows it to move with the dexterity and precision of the human hand. The whole ensemble was developed by the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, a nonprofit R&D center created by Stanford University. The system was commercialized by Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, Calif.From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 174.
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  • Corey Wilson and John Wilson, members of the Dinosaur Cove excavation team, drill holes in the working face of the mine to allow explosives to be placed. The explosives are used to dislodge large pieces of rock, which are then removed and checked for fossil remains. Dinosaur Cove is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology, normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today. MODEL RELEASED [1989].
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  • Newlyweds Helen and John Wilson after a hard day of drilling and jack hammering at Dinosaur Cove. They are members of the Dinosaur Cove excavation team that is drilling holes in the working face of the mine to allow explosives to be placed. The explosives are used to dislodge large pieces of rock, which are then removed and checked for fossil remains. Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway in southern Australia, is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleo-ontological excavations. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
    AUS_SCI_DINO_26_xs.jpg
  • Arctic char caught in a glacial lake (the steel pikes on poles are for chopping holes in the ice). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Preparing boondi in Ujjain, India, at one of the camps at the Kumbh Mela site. Every camp had its own large/small kitchen where food is prepared for people residing in that particular camp as well as outsiders who would walk in and out for lunch/dinner. Boondi can be a savory preparation or even sweet. A thin consistency dough is prepared using gram flour, water and spices. The man is pouring this dough through a big iron sieve which has holes in it so the dough falls in the form of drops in the hot oil and this is then fried. What comes out is the savory boondi. This boondi can be made sweet by putting in sugar syrup (prepared separately). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Corey Wilson and John Wilson, members of the Dinosaur Cove excavation team cool off in a rock tide pool after drilling holes in the working face of the mine to allow explosives to be placed. The explosives are used to dislodge large pieces of rock, which are then removed and checked for fossil remains. Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway in southern Australia, is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleo-ontological excavations. MODEL RELEASED [1989]
    AUS_SCI_DINO_27_xs.jpg
  • Precision robot arms maneuver microsurgical instruments through centimeter-long holes into the heart of a cadaver in a demonstration of minimally invasive surgery at Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, California. The whole ensemble: console, tools, and operating table, was developed by the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, a nonprofit R&D center created by Stanford University. The system was commercialized by Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, Calif.; it now costs about $1 million. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 6-7. Intuitive Surgical Incorporated, based in California, USA, designed Da Vinci.
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  • Dr. Volkmar Falk performs robotic surgery on a patient from controls in the next room at the Herzzentrum Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany. (Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patient's chest wall through which the instruments-attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms-will pass and be telemanipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies. It is much like an office; phones are ringing, there is heavy foot traffic and personal conversation-at times at crescendo level.
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  • Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patient's chest wall through which the instruments, attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms, will pass and be telemanipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies.
    Ger_rs_120_xs.jpg
  • Preparing boondi in Ujjain, India, at one of the camps at the Kumbh Mela site. Every camp had its own large/small kitchen where food is prepared for people residing in that particular camp as well as outsiders who would walk in and out for lunch/dinner. Boondi can be a savory preparation or even sweet. A thin, consistency dough is prepared using gram flour, water and spices. The man is pouring this dough through a big iron sieve which has holes in it so the dough falls in the form of drops in the hot oil and this is then fried. What comes out is the savory boondi. This boondi can be made sweet by putting in sugar syrup (prepared separately). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)..
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  • Drilling holes for explosives in a building to be demolished. Controlled Demolition, Inc, used explosives to demolish an aging housing project near Paris. The Loizeaux brothers run the world's most famous demolition company founded by their father. Mark Loizeaux films and watches the demolition as his brother Doug pushes the detonation controller. La Courneuve, France.
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  • Industrial-robot designer Norio Kodaira of Mitsubishi smiles proudly behind his Melfa EN, a robot arm that moves with incredible speed and dexterity to assemble pieces, drill holes, make chips, or just about any repetitive task that needs to be done quickly and precisely. Like many Japanese roboticists, Kodaira was inspired as a child by Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), a popular Japanese cartoon about a futuristic robot boy who helps human beings (a 15-centimeter Astro Boy action figure). Astro Boy, drawn in the 1950's, will soon be the star of a major motion picture. In the story line, his birthdate is in April of 2003. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 196.
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