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  • Picking saffron crocus flowers growing in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Picking saffron crocus flowers growing in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • A worker wearing heavy gloves picking the fruit of the Nopal cactus "Tunas". Near Puebla, Mexico.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Men use a network of ladders to pick qat from tall qat trees in an orchard outside Sanaa, Yemen. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman in a white top hat picks lima beans near Cuzco, Peru.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wine grape harvest with a single row mechanical grape harvester, Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Farm worker in flower fields grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of fields of flowers grown for seed in Lompoc, California. Today, some of the fields in Lompoc have been converted to wine grape production.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver, with his family in his backyard harvesting olives from one of their trees in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Irene Martínez Pablo along with her nieces and nephews catching grasshoppers outside her village; she sells the grasshoppers, or chapulines, in the local market for ten pesos ($1.25 U.S.) per large cup, outside the village of Santa Luciá Ocotlán, Mexico (near Oaxaca). (Man Eating Bugs page 108,109)
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  • Bessie Liddle reaches for what she calls 'bush coconuts", which are the knobby galls on the branches of the bloodwood tree. These are formed when a light green grub Cystococcus echiniformis burrows under the bark of the tree and secretes an irritating saliva which causes the tree to form a protective gall around the insect in a sort of oyster-and-pearl scenario, north of Alice Springs, Central Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 25)
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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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  • A worker emasculates blossoms in the Zaiger's greenhouse. Flower petals and buds are removed to leave the pistol exposed, which is then hand-pollinated with brushes or cotton swabs. Blossoms are collected by hand from specific trees in the orchards and pollen is extracted from them by cutting the flower up with small scissors and sifting the parts. The pollen goes into a small plastic bottle that is numbered and stored in ice chests. Many trees are grown in barrels that are moved into the greenhouse to be worked on or to speed up or slow down pollination and development..Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Aerial of John Harris flying his Cessna over his fields where workers are harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Grape harvest near Castillo de Davilillo, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Women plant rice fields near Menghan, Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • An old woman shows scavenged lentils in her hand in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center outside Mexico City, Mexico has a huge concrete refrigerated gene bank with thousands of corn seed samples. Here, Jaime Diaz collects jars of seed. This is the largest such Germplasm bank in the world..Near Mexico City. .
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  • Frozen tuna with numbers painted on them ready for the pre-dawn auction at the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A worker on a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • A worker on a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of red grapes that will be made into wine. The field boss watches over the pickers and keeps track of how many bins of grapes each worker picks, which is the basis of how much each worker is paid.
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  • Orange harvest: Lindsay, California, USA. Oranges are picked by hand.
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  • Orange harvest: Lindsay, California, USA. Oranges are picked by hand.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of cabernet sauvignon that will be made into wine. A picker dumps his bin of grapes into the micro bins. Johnson Turnbull.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Napa Valley, California. A gondola of fresh, hand harvested cabernet sauvignon waiting to be transported to the winery to be crushed and made into wine.  Stags Leap appellation, Yountville.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of cabernet sauvignon that will be made into wine.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA. The harvester has a scanner that sorts green from red tomatoes. Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Onions - near Gilroy, Central Valley, California. USA.
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  • Culled carrots are used for cattle feed at Don Smith's Sun-Gro drying operation on an unused airport runway. Famoso, California (near Bakersfield). USA.
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  • Grape harvest. Bordeaux, France.
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  • Culled carrots are used for cattle feed at Don Smith's Sun-Gro drying operation on an unused airport runway. Famoso, California (near Bakersfield). USA.
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  • Apples displayed at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Picking red grapes, San Vincente de la Sonsierra. Rioja, Spain.
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  • In what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca, Mexico's daily public market, inspecting the fresh meat and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside (shown here).(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Grape picking near  San Vincente de la Sonsierra for the Remelluri Bodega in Labastida (Alava Province). Rioja, Spain.
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  • A member of the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team, mine clearing and bomb disposal troops, picking up a mine on the beach in Kuwait. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991.
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  • A smiling woman in a pink shirt picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba washes her hands in a small creek outside yak hair tent home in the Tibetan Plateau after picking fresh yak dung and made patties from it to dry in the sun for use as fuel for cooking on her earthen stove. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca, Mexico's daily public market, inspecting the alarmingly fresh meat and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside (shown here). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 225). This image is featured alongside the Casales family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • In what may be a disappearing custom, shoppers throng Cuernavaca, Mexico's daily public market, inspecting the alarmingly fresh meat (the hogs' heads in this image signal the presence of a butcher) and picking up snacks at the many small restaurants inside. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 224). This image is featured alongside the Casales family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Like most food markets in India, Ujjain's central market is a maelstrom of shoppers elbowing their way around hundreds of vendors sitting on tarpaulins with piles of produce. Cows, revered by Hindus, wander with them, though salespeople and shoppers alike push them out of the way if they get too inquisitive. The Patkar family of Ujjain, India, habituated to the tumult, move with the crowd, calmly picking out what they need. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 171). The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Long distance runners pass through a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
    KEN_090228_064_xw.jpg
  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
    KEN_090227_369_xw.jpg
  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, which will be made into red wine.  Field worker picks leaves out of the grapes for a "clean pick". Johnson Turnbull Winery.
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  • A traditional Thursday afternoon qat-chewing and tobacco-smoking session among friends in Sanaa, Yemen, can last five or six hours. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The men pick through the bag selecting leaves to chew until the masticated mass in their cheek is the size of a golf ball. Qat is harvested year-round.  Its leaves lose their potency within a day, so they must be picked, sorted, washed, and rushed to market daily.
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  • Jerry and Sigrid Seps who owns Storybook Mountain Vineyards display their wine cave which still shows pick marks left by Chinese laborers over a Century ago. Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Vendors make brisk business at their market stalls as shoppers pick supplies for the next day at a souk in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
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  • A rancher in Halfway, Oregon, Bob Goodman lost his arm below his elbow in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah attached a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can cook his dinner and do his chores, just as he did before the accident. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 179 top.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Seen here cutting his meat while having lunch with his girlfriend at a café in Halfway, Oregon.
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  • Bill Haeck of Rock Springs, Wyoming is an avid hunter who relies on his artificial myoelectric arm to continue his hobby after losing his arm in an accident.  Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Haeck can do most things as he did before his accident but he often forgets to charge the battery. Seen here target shooting behind his house.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Here he is using a drill press in the workshop in his barn.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Here he is using a pitchfork to throw hay over the fence to his horses.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Here he is putting his arm on right after he wakes up and gets dressed in his bedroom.
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  • The robotic hand developed at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center), in the countryside outside Munich, Germany, demonstrates the power of a control technique called force-feedback. To pick up an object, Max Fischer (in control room), one of the hand's developers, uses the data-glove to transmit the motion of his hand to the robot. If he moves a finger, the robot moves the corresponding finger. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 135.
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  • Delicately handling a pretzel, the robotic hand developed at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center), in the countryside outside Munich, Germany, demonstrates the power of a control technique called force-feedback. To pick up an object, Max Fischer (in control room), one of the hand's developers, uses the data-glove to transmit the motion of his hand to the robot. If he moves a finger, the robot moves the corresponding finger. Early work on remote-controlled robots foundered when the machines unwittingly crushed the objects they were manipulating. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 134.
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere excitedly hunt for termites by hacking into their earthen mound, placing a cloth in front of the entrance, and yanking off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 148,149)
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  • Maya Ukita (left) and her mother, Sayo (red shirt) watch a neighbor boy jump rope while waiting for the bus to pick up the kids in the morning for their kindergarten class. Bus stop in Kodaira City, 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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  • Outside the Quiapo Market in the Philippines, people pick through the trash discarded from the early-morning wholesale market. Inside, the covered market is a tumult of activity and offers an extraordinary variety of goods, ranging from food, clothing, consumer electronics, and patent medicines to religious images and even prayers (busy people can outsource their prayers to the Quiapo Church's "prayer ladies"). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Jayant and Sangeeta Patkar stop at a kiosk to pick up some grocery items for their family food portrait. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Patkar family of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • FINAL CONTACT: "GRAVEWATCH".  Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones became quite popular in the 21st century. Adding snippets of video of the diseased was quite easy to program since nearly every family had extensively documented their family time with small digital videocams. AI (artificial intelligence) computer programs made conversations with the dead quite easy. These virtual visits to the underworld became passé within a decade however, and graveyard visits became less common. By mid-century many people wanted to insure that their relatives would continue paying their respects, and keeping their memory alive. New technology insured regular visits to the gravesite to pick up a monthly inheritance check issued electronically by a built-in device with wireless connection to the living relative's bank account. Face recognition (and retinal scanners on high-end models) insured that family members were present during the half-hour visits. A pressure pad at the foot of the grave activated the system and after 30 minutes of kneeling at the grave, watching videos or prerecorded messages or admonitions, a message flashed on the screen, indicating that a deposit had been made electronically to their bank account. For the Wright family of Napa, California, there is no other way to collect Uncle Eno's inheritance other than by monthly kneelings. ["Gravewatch" tombstones shown with "Retscan" retinal scanning ID monitors.] MODEL RELEASED
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  • A rancher in Halfway, Oregon, Bob Goodman lost his arm below his elbow in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah attached a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can cook his dinner and do his chores, just as he did before the accident. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 179 bottom.
    USA_rs_394_qxxs.jpg
  • Bill Haeck of Rock Springs, Wyoming is an avid hunter who relies on his artificial myoelectric arm to continue his hobby after losing his arm in an accident.  Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Haeck can do most things as he did before his accident but he often forgets to charge the battery. Seen here target shooting behind his house.
    USA_SCI_MEARM_09_xs.jpg
  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Here he is arm-wrestling with a neighbor in a local bar called the Sportsman's Club: showing off the strength of his electric arm motor. (Actually the arm has no lateral force, only frontal, but the hand does have more gripping power than a normal hand.)
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident.
    USA_SCI_MEARM_05_xs.jpg
  • Boys in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. The harvesters pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Julia Marumo, her two young sisters, and her cousin Gladys pick mopane worms from mopane trees in the countryside; entire families like hers move into mobile camps for the short mopane harvest which occurs twice every year in Botswana. The mopane worm is actually the caterpillar of the anomalous emperor moth (Imbrasia belina), one of the larger moths in the world. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, and its leaves which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. (pages 128,129)
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  • Vultures pick away at a carcass of a dead cow on the dry floodplain of the Niger River in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • FINAL CONTACT: "GRAVEWATCH".  Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones became quite popular in the 21st century. Adding snippets of video of the diseased was quite easy to program since nearly every family had extensively documented their family time with small digital videocams. AI (artificial intelligence) computer programs made conversations with the dead quite easy. These virtual visits to the underworld became passé within a decade however, and graveyard visits became less common. By mid-century many people wanted to insure that their relatives would continue paying their respects, and keeping their memory alive. New technology insured regular visits to the gravesite to pick up a monthly inheritance check issued electronically by a built-in device with wireless connection to the living relative's bank account. Face recognition (and retinal scanners on high-end models) insured that family members were present during the half-hour visits. A pressure pad at the foot of the grave activated the system and after 30 minutes of kneeling at the grave, watching videos or prerecorded messages or admonitions, a message flashed on the screen, indicating that a deposit had been made electronically to their bank account. For the Wright family of Napa, California, there is no other way to collect Uncle Eno's inheritance other than by monthly kneelings. ["Gravewatch" tombstones shown with "Retscan" retinal scanning ID monitors.] MODEL RELEASED
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  • The family of Abdul Azziz's brother picks qat outside Sanaa, Yemen. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Freshly picked saffron crocus flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • A young girl picks her way along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Mountains of Manila's trash are picked through every day at the Payatas dumpsite outside Manila, Philippines. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Wine grapes being picked and de-stemmed by a single-row harvesting machine in the Napa Valley, California. USA.
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  • Freshly picked saffron crocus flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Two women removing the stigmas from Freshly picked saffron flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Old women removing the stigmas from Freshly picked saffron flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Venders selling cremation supplies line the many narrow alleys leading to Manikarnika Ghat and Jalasi Ghat. People pass through at all times of the day and night and the cremation site never closes. Colorful shrouds in auspicious colors are sold by the piece. The color red denotes prosperity and hope. Yellow is the color of innocence. The largely polyester fabric doesn't burn very well so is often set aside and burned separately so that it doesn't impede the process of burning the body. The workers hoeing the ashes picks up remnants and wind them around their heads as decoration.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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