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  • View of lake and oil drilling rigs from PDVSA oil drilling yard on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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  • The Finken family's suburban straw bale home. They live a block-and-a-half east of Lac Deschênes in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec. The Finkens try to eat from the bounty of local farmers and producers to get the freshest food possible and grow some of their own summer and fall vegetables in raised beds in their front yard. They buy organic foods to the extent that they can afford the higher cost but they try to economize on staple foods. "At the bigger markets," says Kirk, "everything is so seductive that you end up spending more money (than you intended)".
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  • The Samuel Msomi family in Soweto, South Africa with all their possessions in the back yard of their house. This family was not chosen for the Material World book, but they are, like the Qampie family in the book, statistically average for South Africa.
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  • 90-year-old Haruko Maeda, sprawls comfortably in the front yard of her home in Ogimi Village, cutting the grass with a pair of hand shears. "I'm getting this done before it gets too hot," she explains. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Bob Sorensen, an assistant golf course superintendent of The Golf Club at Redlands Mesa in Grand Junction, Colorado picks vegetables in his backyard.  (Bob Sorensen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He played football at Mesa State College in Grand Junction and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. Just before he took a desk job in his chosen profession he decided that he didn't want a desk job and found one that requires his constant attendance of the great outdoors, at a golf course at the foot of the majestic Colorado National Monument.  He earned a second degree in turf management, supervises a small crew of greenskeepers, and coaches high school football at Palisade High School.
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  • Urban Ore Recycling Company. Recycled building material and household items for sale. Berkeley, California. USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomato production facility cannery, Stockton, California, USA.
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  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. 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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  • Marie Paule Kutten-Kass of the town of Erpeldange in Bous, southeast of Luxembourg City, near the German border returns home from grocery shopping. Grand Duchy of 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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  • The single family home of the Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, preparing chapati, unleavened flat bread, in her kitchen. Model-Released.
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  • Urban Ore Recycling Company. Recycled building material and household items for sale. Don Knapp, owner with dog Sam. Berkeley, California. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • 'Castle' house. Castroville, California. USA.
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  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • Cape Neddick, Maine light house.
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  • A family in front of their thatched roof home in a Mayan village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • House with hundreds of flowers in front, Berceo, Rioja, Spain.
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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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  • The Finken family's suburban straw bale home located a block-and-a-half east of Lac Deschênes in the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. (Coco Simone Fincken is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Cooking methods: Electric stove. Food preservation: refrigerator-freezer.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. 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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  • Rain delay during the shooting of the Material World big picture in South Africa. The Qampie family had to cover all their possessions, which had already been moved outside, during the brief but fierce thunderstorm that swept across Soweto. 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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  • The home of Carlo, 49, and Marie Paule Kutten-Kass, 48, of the town of Erpeldange in Bous, southeast of Luxembourg City, near the German border. Grand Duchy of 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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  • At a private home in Truckee (Lake Tahoe) CA, for a fundraiser dinner for the Squaw Valley Institute: A Farm to Table Dinner with Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio and a group of premier local chefs, including Elsa Corrigan from Mamasake, Chef Ben "Wyatt" Dufresne from PlumpJack Cafe, Chad Shrewsbury from Six Peaks Grille, Douglas Dale of Wolfdale's, Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Company, Farrier Wines and Donum Estate wines for a spectacular dining event that pays homage to our homegrown businesses, farmers and food leaders, while giving us "food for thought" about our own daily diets through the perspective of those around the world.
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  • The Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway.  Mille 12, jumps on the trampoline in the back of their farmhouse on the family sheep ranch. Model-Released.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. In his backyard after a weekend lunch, Nasrullah Qureshi, 51, serves chai tea to his father-in-law, U.S. Sakhi, 74. Model-Released.
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  • Upstate NY near Waddinton, NY
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  • Bed and Breakfast in Potsdam, NY
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Red picket fence in front of weekend cottages. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • Napa, California. Jack and Evan Menzel look at the wave pattern in the swimming pool and the water that splashed out of the pool at the residence of Peter Menzel a minute after the earthquake that shook their home 107 miles from the epicenter of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Napa, California. Jack and Evan Menzel look at the wave pattern in the swimming pool and the water that splashed out of the pool at the residence of Peter Menzel a minute after the earthquake that shook their home 107 miles from the epicenter of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Bob Sorensen, a golf course assistant superintendent, picks vegetables in his backyard garden at his home in Grand Junction, Colorado. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 3,600 kcals. He is 25 years of age; 5 feet,  11 inches tall and 175 pounds. Switching career paths from criminal justice to turf maintenance enabled Bob to escape a desk job and work outdoors in a picturesque Western landscape. Some of his work is physical, but technology makes his irrigation chores easier. From one of many rock outcrops overlooking the lush fairways and greens in the dry, high desert valley, he can control a matrix of sprinklers with a single radio controller. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kibet Serem hangs up laundry that he has just washed.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He is 25 years of age. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it.
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  • The Kuenkaew Family, 5:30 pm, May 31 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Ban Muang Wa, Thailand. Published in Material World, pages 80-81. The Khuenkaews are a farming family that grows rice for personal use, and to sell for income. The Khuenkaew's live in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. 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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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew washes her family's clothes on the ground near her house Thailand. Work. She and her family live in the wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. 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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  • Pauline Melanson unloading groceries in front of her family home, in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada. The Melanson family consists of Peter, Pauline, Joseph, Jacob, and Shane. They live one street off "The Road To Nowhere," on a hill overlooking the town of Iqaluit in Canada's northeastern territory of Nunavut (just south of the Arctic Circle).
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  • Carlo and Marie Paule Kutten-Kass family chickens in back garden of house in the town of Erpeldange in Bous, southeast of Luxembourg City, near the German border. Grand Duchy of 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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  • Joshi family from Nepal, now living in Los Angeles, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew washes her family's clothes in wash basins on the ground near her house. Published in Material World page 85. She and her family live in the wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • The Kuenkaew Family, 5:30 pm, May 31 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Ban Muang Wa, Thailand. Published in Material World, pages 80-81.
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  • Carlo and Marie Paule Kutten-Kass clothes drying on a line in the back garden of house in the town of Erpeldange in Bous, southeast of Luxembourg City, near the German border. Grand Duchy of 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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  • Boat trip back from the Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos...
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  • Aerial photograph of Mission Viejo housing subdivisions in Orange County, California.
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  • 90-year-old Haruko Maeda, in the front yard of her home in Ogimi Village, taking a break from cutting her lawn with a pair of hand shears. "I'm getting this done before it gets too hot," she explains. Hara hachi bu: "eat only until 80 percent full," say older Okinawans. The island has been the focus in recent years of researchers trying to discover why a disproportionately large number of Okinawans are living to age 100 or more. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • A dinner table is set in the desert at Burning Man in the late afternoon. Later that evening, 8 celebrants have dinner, and then burn the table. A group of San Francisco friends brought a table and chairs from a yard sale, had dinner in the desert near the Burning Man, then burned the dining set Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • An overturned truck from an automobile accident, and a victim on the roadside of Highway 29, American Canyon, California. The accident took place in front of an auto wrecking yard. USA.
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  • An extended family's simple rural home and yard in Horcon, Chile.
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  • Coco Simone Finken, a teenage vegetarian who lives in the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada with her day's worth of food. (From 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 the month of October was 1900 kcals. She is 16, 5' 9.5" and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Sports, family olympics in the back yard. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family get-together at rented house on the shore at York Cliffs, Maine in July. Sports, family olympics in the back yard. Menzel/D'Aluisio. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aerial of the log yard at Blue Lake Timber Company, Humboldt County, California, USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of a junkyard in Barstow, California. Auto dismantling yard.
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  • Aerial photograph of train tracks and railroad switching yard. Barstow, California.
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  • A photo assistant exposes his butt by a sign for the Ace Wrecking Company. Ace Auto salvage yard outside El Paso, Texas, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • 90-year-old Haruko Maeda, sprawls comfortably in the front yard of her home in Ogimi Village, cutting the grass with a pair of hand shears. "I'm getting this done before it gets too hot," she explains. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Tony Price (1937-2000), here with his family, created sculptures from scrap metal bought at the salvage yard at the Los Alamos National Lab and built sculptures which convey anti-nuclear themes and messages. Santa Fe, New Mexico MODEL RELEASED (1988)
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  • Nevada Nuclear Test site- Used drill bits in the drilling storage yard for underground nuclear tests. (1988)
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  • Vegetarian teenager Coco Simone Fincken (right) enjoys dinner with her family at their home in the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of Coco's day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of October was 1900 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser, seen here with a pan of gold plated parts recovered from computers, was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
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  • Spreading its solar-power panels to catch the last feeble light of day, the Rocky 7 patrols the Mars Yard of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Controlled by an operator (visible in shed window), it is working in dimly lit conditions like those it will face on Mars, which is much farther from the Sun than the Earth is. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 125.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Buddhist head monk attending the funeral ceremonial lunch in a village near Siem Reap, Cambodia for a 34 year old mother of 3 who died of a heart attack the day before while washing the family's breakfast dishes. Attended by family and friends and neighbors. A tent and shrine and funeral preparations are made in the family yard.
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  • (1992) A video file search of fingerprints at the Scotland Yard in London, England. DNA Fingerprinting.
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  • (1992) Coding fingerprints by hand in preparation to enter the information in a computer system. Scotland Yard, London, England. DNA Fingerprinting.
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  • Coco Simone Finken, a teenage vegetarian who lives in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec blows birthday candles on a homemade carrot cake baked by her mother and sister. (From 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 the month of October was 1900 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED
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  • In the fenced Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the remote-sensing robot Rocky 7 navigates a mock-up of the terrain on the Red Planet. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 122-123.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Published in Material World page 85. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
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  • A Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula, caught by Yanomami youths, roasting on the embers of a fire. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. Sejal, Venezuela.(Man Eating Bugs page 174 Top)
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  • Chaurino Perez Andrate, 17, offers a plate-sized sample of roasted Theraphosa leblondi, the world's largest tarantula in his village of Sejal, Venezuela. Chaurino stuns the leblondi by whacking it with a stick, gathers its legs, and lowers it onto the fire. The spider makes a final hiss as its insides heat up and it shoots out a yard-long spurt of hot juice. After it is roasted for about seven minutes, its charred hairs are rubbed away and the legs pulled off. When we crack them open, there's white meat.(Man Eating Bugs page 175)
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  • Tao Xiuzeng, a worker at the Silk Factory #1 in the city of Suzhou, describes her favorite recipe for silkworms as she pulls the silkworm cocoons from boiling water, threads the fine  silk filament onto a reel, and then tosses away the rest of the pupae when the 1000 yards or more of silk is wound off each one. Occasionally she brings silk worm pupae home to eat, first drying them in the oven, then stir-frying them with ginger, onion, rice wine, and garlic, Suzhou, China. Her daughter is afraid of them, she says. (Man Eating Bugs page 90 Bottom)
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