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  • Koi Fish in the backyard pond of Mr. Demello. 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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  • Slow Food celebration at Ft. Mason, San Francisco
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  • Michael Dickinson of the University of California at Berkeley's email address is revealing: FlymanD. Dickinson is a biologist specializing in the study of the aerodynamics of flapping flight. His studies of fruit fly flight are fascinating. In one small room sits a Plexiglas tank filled with two metric tons of mineral oil. Suspended in the oil are giant mechanical models of fruit fly wings: RoboFly.  RoboFly enables Dickinson to study similar forces when the giant wings are flapping in oil. Thousands of tiny bubbles that act as visual tracers are forced into the oil from an air compressor making all the swirling turbulence visible. The device has been used to identify the unusual aerodynamic mechanisms that insects use to fly and maneuver. UC Berkeley, CA, USA.
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  • Vats of swirling boiling oil in Phnom Penh's Wholesale Market are full of crickets (left), and whole small birds (right), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Man Eating Bugs page 46)
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  • Conical flask containing a swirling vortex of liquid; one item of equipment used in Charles Cantor's laboratory at Columbia University, New York, in research on the human genome project. Colored radiograms used in DNA sequencing are visible in background to the left of the flask. The term "genome" describes the full set of genes expressed by an organism's chromosomes. The task of constructing such a complete blueprint of genetic information for humans is divided into two main phases: mapping genes and other markers on chromosomes, and decoding the DNA sequences of genes on all the chromosomes.
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  • Weather: Evan Menzel, 6, runs toward a dust devil, a small whirlwind, near Casa Grande, Arizona.  Dust devils usually last for a short period of time but can swirl dust and debris to great heights. Desert. Model Released (1991)
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  • Traffic swirls around a policeman at a roundabout in the busy and noisy main shopping district of Varanasi in Utta Pradesh province, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Apart from keeping his eye on rickshaws, the policeman is watching for bicycles, pedestrians, cars, and the two cows wandering down the street.
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