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  • Chicago's elevated train, called "the El" by Chicagoans, in downtown Chicago, IL, USA.
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  • Gare de Lyon TGV high-speed train. Paris, France.
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  • Shinkansen bullet trains in the train station in Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A pilgrim sleeps on the walkway over other pilgrims jamming the trains in Hardiwar station. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Pilgrims jamming the trains in Hardiwar station. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Commuters disembark a train at a subway station in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Travelers crowd on top of a train at the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Pedestrian, car, bus, and train traffic at a busy intersection in the Shinjuku District of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Pedestrian, car, bus, and train traffic at a busy intersection in the Shinjuku District of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • After a hard day of work as a bike messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, Jun Yajima (left) takes a train ride home. Physically exhausted after a long day's work, he is able to catch a nap standing up on the hour long commute. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman carries a child outside a shack in a slum settlement near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • The crowded Ujjain train station during Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.
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  • Aerial photograph of train tracks and railroad switching yard. Barstow, California.
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  • A girl sits by a fire in a slum settlement near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Bus and train station in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Start-up asimba.com; CEO Scott Hublou (on right) biking, Los Altos, Iron-man training 6:50 am. (1999).
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  • A young boy jockey heads out for morning camel training at the Nad Al Sheba racecourse in Dubai with his breakfast snack of soda pop, chips, and candy. Although the practice of using children has been banned and declared illegal since 2002, young children from poor countries are still being used as jockeys because of their light weight and low cost. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Riders and stable boys prepare camels for an early morning training workout at the racetrack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan, a porter at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with his day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan with fellow very young child porters on the platform of the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan pushes a trolley at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan, a porter at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with his day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A traveller hires Alamin Hasan (right) to carry his luggage at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A traveller hires Alamin Hasan (right) to carry his luggage at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan walks on the platform at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan carries a bag at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Slum dwellers walk along railway tracks at sunset in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is Africa's biggest slum with nearly one million inhabitants.
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  • Alamin Hasan (left) confronts rival porters on the platform of the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • 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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  • 'Castle' house. Castroville, California. USA.
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  • Birkenau Death Camp, Poland, summer wheat and flowers.
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  • Alien figures (3" tall figure sold as "The Roswell Alien" by Shadowbox Collectibles, Inc.) tour the area around the storage silos by the railroad tracks, downtown Roswell, New Mexico. The figures are actually sitting on the dashboard of the photographer's rental car. (1997)
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  • Beautifully appointed new Kyoto Railway Station with ubiquitous fast food accompaniment. Mister Donut. Kyoto, Japan.
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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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  • Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco tourist area
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  • Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco tourist area
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  • The five bridges over the Vltava River. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Downtown San Jose convention center.
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  • Naha City monorail, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Naha City monorail, Okinawa, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Artfully placed advertisement on a subway car in Osaka, Japan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • Evan Menzel on the Metro (underground) Paris, France.
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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.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Menzel-D'Aluisio compound, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Armored Combat earthmover (ACE) at Fort. Ord, California,USA.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Start-up ASIMBA.com; New office. Scott Hublou, CEO; Stretches before am evening run 7:40 pm. Model Released (1999).
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Menzel-D'Aluisio compound, Napa Valley, CA
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  • At Tad Sae Waterfall, near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Fried bamboo larva on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs" says Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A culinary and aesthetic exhibition (on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions) of fried bamboo worms, which are actually not worms but the larval stage of a moth that lives in bamboo trees. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs," Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Man Eating Bugs page s 42,43)
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, trains with an instructor in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Subway trains cross an overpass over rush hour evening traffic in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Silicon Valley, California; 9:15 PM Driving south on Highway 101, C.E.O. Scott Hublou returns voice mail on his cell phone. Scott is returning to the Asimba.com office in Mountain View, California after an evening run. Scott is preparing for an upcoming Ironman competition for which he trains twice a day. Model Released (1999).
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  • Getting to work can be frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • (1992) Dave Ford trains for the races with his Siberian husky team by the Santon Parish Church in Thetford, England. The team was DNA tested by Cellmark to determine their paternity. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Dance instructor Jesse Desoto trains some of his students at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Chicago, Illinois. (Jesse Desoto is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • In Manila, any square foot of extra space finds a use for someone. Squatters even set up little kitchens on the median between train tracks and time their cooking to work around the train schedule. Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55)
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  • A young porter Alamin Hasan, smokes a cigarette at the Kamlapur train station in Dhaka, where he earns a living by offering to carry passengers' bags.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A rickshaw driver drinks tea as he takes a break from a busy day at the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80  Diets.)
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  • Alamin Hasan helps with train bedding from the sleeper cars at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A rickshaw driver waits for customers at the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A woman sits on a rickshaw with a child on her lap outside the Central train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Rickshaw drivers tout for customers outside the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Sayo Ukia (back to camera) shops for fruits and vegetables in the Kodaira City neighborhood, outside Tokyo, Japan, where she and her family live. Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • Because Sayo Ukita buys her family's food from the nearby neighborhood markets situated around the train station (true for many residential areas in Tokyo) she usually shops daily; and by bicycle (the area is congested and there is little parking for cars). Rather than shop in one store for all items, she shops in a green market, a general merchandise store (pictured) and a fish market. Kodaira City, Tokyo, Japan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Japan, 2001.
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  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Young boys and men sleep on a pavement outside the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Train station, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Bus and train station in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
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  • Musee D'Orsay art museum in a converted train station. Paris, France.
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  • Fort Irwin, California, one of the places used by the U.S. Army to train soldiers before they are deployed to Iraq.
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  • Caged chickens on sale at a market in slum settlements  near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A woman sells chickens at a market in the slums near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Nearly 20 percent of Dhaka's more than seven million residents live in the slums.
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  • Train station in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • Train station, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Train from Oslo to Bergen, Norway.
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  • Musee D'Orsay art museum in a converted train station. Paris, France.
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  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, gets take out dinner from a  fast food restaurant near the train station close to his home in a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A buyer negotiates with fruit and vegetable vendors at a market in the slums near the main train station in Dahaka, Bangladesh.  Nearly 20 percent of Dhaka's more than seven million residents live in the slums.
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  • Travelers at the Cairo Train Station on Ramses Square in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Getting to work is a scary daily business for Simon and Poppy Qampie, because the train that picks them up at the Phomolong station in Soweto, South Africa, is often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children run home from school down a street lined with shops near the train station in the Ukita family's neighborhood in Kodaira City, outside Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 54. 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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  • Kazuo Ukita reads his newspaper on the train taking him from Kodaira City to his workplace where he fills orders in a book and magazine warehouse. 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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  • Kazuo Ukita moves books around the warehouse at his job at a distribution company. Like many other salary men, when Kazuo Ukita leaves home to catch the train for his job, he dons a navy blue suit for the hour-long commute, but changes into company work clothes once he arrives. During the commute, nearly all the men are dressed the same. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Sayo Ukita shops daily in the market area near the train station closest to her family's home in Kodaira City, Japan, outside Tokyo. There are many small specialized shops and a few small to medium sized supermarkets. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A fish vendor in the market area near the train station of Kodaira City, outside Tokyo shows the "wing span" of a flying fish. The fish shop is one of Sayo Ukita's stops on her daily shopping bike ride from her home. As might be expected in an island nation, Japanese families eat a wide variety of seafood: fish, shellfish, and seaweed of all kinds. In any given week, the Ukitas will eat at least a dozen different kinds of fish and shellfish, and three varieties of seaweed. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) The Ukita family of Kodaira City, Japan, 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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  • The Rotunda by the train station, Luxembourg City.
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  • Breakfast of dal, mixed vegetables, paratha and egg at a café near the central train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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  • Kazuo Ukita (under the clock on the platform reading the newspaper) and other salary men and women wait for the train to take them to work in, and around, Tokyo, Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 51. 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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