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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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  • The Southern Ocean seen from Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway in southern Australia. 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.  [1989]
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  • Medium seas and waves in the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica seen from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, which was originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists.
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  • Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway in southern Australia, is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology, normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The mines are at sea level at the base of high cliff. 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.  [1989]
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  • Woodstock Rock Festival fans on a muddy hill at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969.
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  • Woodstock Rock Festival fans in the rain wait on the muddy hillside above the stage for the next act to play at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969..
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  • At dusk, the skyline of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • The view from the roof of an 8 story hotel in old Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • Photographed at a baptismal font in the chapel of Schloss Burlinghoven, a nineteenth-century castle on the campus of the German National Center for Information Technology, the walking robot Sir Arthur stands with its creator, research scientist Frank Kirchner. Sir Arthur began as a relatively simple robot with sonarlike "vision" that prevented it from trapping itself in corners and snagging itself on obstacles. It was successful enough that Kirchner obtained funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to assemble a team of researchers from diverse disciplines: computer science, math, physics, and electronic and mechanical engineering, to build an enhanced, solar-powered version that can cross rough outdoor terrain. Germany. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 112
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  • Wild flower and trinitite. Trinitite is a metamorphic rock found in New Mexico. It was formed during the explosion of the world's first nuclear bomb, code-named Trinity, on 16 July 1945. Trinitite is an altered silicate resembling rough green glass. The extreme temperatures of the nuclear explosion melted the native sandstone soil. As the material cooled it formed a glassy structure. The greenish color comes from iron in the sand - the same iron, which as an oxide gave the original sand its reddish color. Most of the original radioactivity of the trinitite has gone in the last decades. First atomic bomb test site. (1984).
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  • Willie Ishulutak, an Innuit soapstone carver in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada roughs out the fins of a soapstone narwhal sculpture outside his mother's house in the suburb of Apex. (From the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Carving is one of the few traditions of the Inuit that has made the leap into the wage-earning modern world. Willie says he can complete two or three pieces in a day, then sell them in the evening at bars and restaurants in Iqaluit for $100 ($93 USD) each, and sometimes more. MODEL RELEASED.
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