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  • St. Helena Elementary School, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Department of Transportation Design. USA.
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  • Earthquake research. Geophysicist, William Prescott in the computer data room, with earthquake data recording equipment behind him, at the U.S. Geological Survey's laboratory at Menlo Park, California. USA MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Bread Queen, Robina Weiser-Linnartz (in green v-neck sweater), at choir practice at the Dominican Cloister Church in Cologne, Germany. (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Bhutanese language writing class at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. Nalim and Namgay's daughter Bangam attends this school. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • English lesson in classroom at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. Nalim's daughter Bangam is in attendance (though out of frame). Children in Bangam's class range from 6 to 17 in age, some of who travel several hours to attend. The school is an hour walk from their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Batbileg Batsuuri (right) in his Russian class at school. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 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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  • Enthusiastic pupils pay close attention in an adult class on budget techniques. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Professor George Allen holding a sturgeon at the waste water wetlands in Arcata, California. (1989) MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Department of Transportation Design.  USA.
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  • Students studying at a private high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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  • Lasalle High School class in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Paul Jefferson, a blind amputee in army hospital in England was wounded by a land mine in Kuwait. Paul Jefferson, who had overseen the de-mining of the Falklands. He had also written a manual on defusing Russian land mines. But he stepped on one and lost a leg, his eyes, and parts of his hands. I visited him in a veterans' hospital for the blind in England a few months later and made a short video on his rehabilitation and recollections of the accident. In this photo he is being taught to type with a computer program that sounds out the letters as he types them.
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  • Earthquake research. Geophysicist, William Prescott sketches a curve with a light pen showing a typical earthquake curve at the U.S. Geological Survey's laboratory at Menlo Park, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: "GREENREAD" AND "WASTEWATCHER" Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special Issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: The first day of school for one-year-olds is less traumatic when the learning guide can monitor their progress with infant-friendly "Greenreads", (friendly retro laptops with green-red monitoring LEDs that display learning progress). Getting a jump-start on education is crucial to the future success of a citizen in this very wired world. Moving beyond the abdominal skin speakers to fetal cell phones became so common by mid-century that many children were able to communicate very well by the time they started school at 12 months, even though they had not mastered verbal speech. Photographed at Headzup Learning Center in Napa, California MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Craig Caven spends a moment going over reading and other assignments with a few of his high school students in American Canyon, California. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Mio Ukita, 9, attends "juku" (Supplemental school system also known as after school tutoring or cram school) several days a week. 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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  • Mio Ukita and her Kodaira City classmates do math problems in their schoolroom. 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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  • Lunchtime at nine-year-old Mio Ukita's classroom at school 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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  • Bhutanese language writing class at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • English lesson in classroom at the school in Gaselo, Bhutan. Nalim's daughter Bangam is in attendance (although out of frame). Children in Bangam's class range from 6 to 17 in age. The school is an hour's walk from Shingkhey Village. Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • A young boy with elephantiasis looks in on his school classroom during a math class. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Godfrey Reggio (born 1940), creator of the QATSI trilogy, essays of visual images and sound which chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the environment. In his Santa Fe studio. His most famous movie of the trilogy is Koyaanisqatsi. MODEL RELEASED. (1990).
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  • Khorloo Batsuuri (far right) and her fellow students listen to their teacher at school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • Each morning, Batbilig and Khorloo Batsuuri's public school begins with exercises orchestrated by a teacher with a bullhorn in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
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  • Ansis Sauka, a voice teacher, musician, and composer, with his typical day's worth of food while rehearsing the Riga youth choir Kamer in Riga, Latvia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 6 feet, 0,5 inches tall;  and 183 pounds. Riga, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the oldest continuously running market in Europe, is known throughout Europe for its choral traditions. It proudly hosts the nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival every five years. In 2008 more than 38,000 singers, dancers, and musicians participated in the weeklong event. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ansis Souka, 45, VOICE TEACHER, rehearses with the Kamer Latvian youth choir in Riga, Latvia. On the piano is one day's food of Ansis Souka. What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. MODEL RELEASED.'
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  • A young girl pays attention to her teacher in math class in Kouakourou village public school, Mali. Africa, Child, Children, Education. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned. Here his friend (to the right of the man with the beard) who was swimming with him tells the authorities how he drowned right after the boy disappeared beneath the murky waters of the Ganges. His teacher called his parents in Kathmandu but did not tell the reason why. When his father, Bhim Prasad Bastola, arrived in Varanasi on a bus, he was told of the death of his 15-year-old son Chudamani Bastola and the cremation ceremony was held shortly thereafter.
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  • Ansis Sauka, a voice teacher, musician, and composer in Riga, Latvia. (Ansis Sauka is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Riga, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the oldest continuously running market in Europe, is known throughout Europe for its choral traditions. It proudly hosts the nationwide Latvian Song and Dance Festival every five years. In 2008 more than 38,000 singers, dancers, and musicians participated in the weeklong event. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Millie Mitra and her yoga teacher at her home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie Mitra, a vegan, has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy.
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  • A teacher helps a student in the classroom of Batbilig Batsuuri in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
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  • The Kamer Latvian youth choir practices in Riga, Latvia. The choir is instructed by Ansis Sauka, a voice teacher, musician and composer. (Ansis Sauka is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Children play in a rubble-strewn playground at the looted Sheikh Madar Elementary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The teachers of the school work without pay. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Children play in a rubble-strewn playground at the looted Sheikh Madar Elementary School in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The teachers of the school work without pay. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war.March 1992.
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