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  • Many restaurants and markets in China hew closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. Here a worker is offering samples in a faux-Mongolian outfit. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The day after the electrifying celebration in the village, life returns to normal. Singing as they walk, Bangam (third from the right) joins other village girls in collective women's work: cleaning out the manure from the animal stalls under the houses and spreading it on the fallow fields before the men plow. All wear the traditional kira worn by all Bhutanese women: a rather complicated woven wool wrap dress. Men wear a robelike wrap called a gho. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 45).  The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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 Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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The Biosphere 2 Project’s twenty-seven foot test module seen with star trails at night in a long exposure. The building to the right is an atmospheric chamber used to equalize the air pressure in the module. The Biosphere was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at the possibility of future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson Arizona, and is entirely self-contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water- tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life over their two-year stay in the building, producing all of their own food and supporting the whole environment in five 'biomes'; agricultural, rain forest, savannah, ocean and marsh.  1986
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  • Khorloo Batsuuri uses her brother Batbileg's leg as a cushion on the sofa as she studies in the room they share with their parents Regzen Batsuuri (at right) and Oyuntsetseg Lhakamsuren (not in image). From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2001.
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  • Market day in Koukourou, Mali. Africa. Grain trader Soumana Natomo (at right in blue) opens a sack of grain at the Saturday market in his village of Kouakourou, on the banks of the Niger River, between the market town of Mopti, and Djenne. One of his two wives, Pama Kondo (in yellow) measures rice for a customer. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Fruit crosses: Pluots (a cross between a plums and apricots at center), plumcots (samples of the first stage of crossbreeding an apricot with a plum, at right), and apriums (a cross between plumcots and apricots, at left). 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. Pluot fruit (plum & apricot) - 1988.
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  • Rice: Dick Harter (left), organic rice farmer with Richard Skillin (right), non-organic rice farmer. Butte County, Northern California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1990.
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  • A runner, bottom right, takes an early morning run on eroded hills. Seen from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
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  • Daryl Sattui and wife Yana Albert's kitchen of their Victorian house in Calistoga, California, Napa Valley, California. Faith D'Aluisio at right. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Quixote Winery, Napa Valley, CA seen below the vineyard reservoir. The Carl Doumani and Pam Hunter house on the Quixote winery vineyard reservoir is to the right, unseen.  Napa Valley, CA.
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  • The bar/lounge of NV Restaurant in Napa, California. Drinks left to right are: Tantaliziång Mandarin, Un-tie My-tie, and Rick's Perfect Pineapple.
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  • A local Ecuador photographer talks with Carol Guzy (right) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
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  • Ocotillo cactus near Gates Pass, Tucson, Arizona desert at sunset. Saguaro cactus is at right.
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  • Arizona. Lightning. Time exposure image of lightning strikes over Tucson, Arizona, USA..The silhouette of a giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is in the foreground at right and left. Car tail light trails are also seen in the foreground. Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Photographed in Tucson, Arizona, USA. .
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, right, with the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, right, with the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • At a dinner party at the Reykjavik, Iceland, home of Thordis (with plate at right), Keith Bellows yaks it up with guests. On left is Keith's wife Melina, standing is Annie Griffiths-Belt, and seated center is Linnea Cahill, Tim Cahill's wife..
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  • CZE_39_xs.Prague, Czech Republic. Peter Menzel, holding beer, and Craig Unger, on right, in a beer hall..
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  • Spontanous dancing right after the Velvet Revolution. Prague, Czech Republic. Starometske Namesti (old town square).
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  • The burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait right after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. Tornados of fire are seen spinning off a burning well. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Weather: An area of desert known as the Racetrack, in California's Death Valley on a crystal clear summer day right after sunrise.  (1982)
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  • Lightning tolerance test. A researcher holding two carbon-fiber panels from a helicopter, showing their tolerance of lightning. The panel at right is simple carbon fiber, and has had a large hole punched in it by simulated lightning. This is because it is an electrical insulator, so cannot disperse the electricity across its surface. The panel at left has a thin grid of copper wire coating the surface. This allows the electrical charge to disperse over the surface, causing nothing more than damage to the paint. Photographed at Lightning Technologies Inc. of Massachusetts, USA. 1992.MODEL RELEASED
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  • Virtual reality: Ralph Hollis, IBM, NY "Feeling" Gold Atoms working with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) (at right) linked to a tele-robotic manipulation system with atomic scale force-feedback. The minute movements of the STM's probe as its traverses the gold sample surface is linked to a force-feedback magic wrist, enabling the scientist, whose hand is in contact with the magic wrist, to feel the texture of the gold atoms. In background is a false-color STM image of the gold surface, revealing the cobbled pattern of individual atoms. The photo was taken at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York. Model Released (1990)
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a mite (Acarimetaseiulus occidentalis) on the surface of a silicon micro-resonator 'chip'. The micro- resonator, or 'semaphore structure', is a product of micromechanics. Micro-resonators are use to make tiny vibration sensors for engineering use. The comb-like detector ends of the micro- resonators are seen here, a thin strand of silicon running from the left detector toward top left is attached to a large resonant mass. The absence of a resonant mass fixed to the right detector indicates a fault in manufacture. To give an idea of scale, the silicon strand is 2 microns thick and 2 microns wide. Reid Brennan's semaphore structure with mite. [1990]
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  • Pharmaceutical technicians cataloguing new plants in a herbarium. The plant samples, which are from all over the world, are weighed (at center left), unpacked (at center right) and entered onto computer (at upper center). The herbarium, or botany room, is where plants are dried, pressed and stuck to sheets for identification purposes (as at bottom left). MODEL RELEASED
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  • Baboon blood research for cryonic purposes. Surgical staff checking a baboon in an ice bath (upper right) during an artificial blood experiment. The baboon's blood has been replaced with an artificial substitute. Here, its body temperature is being cooled to below 10 degrees Celsius for three hours. Artificial blood can aid the preservation of organs and tissues before transplantation. It can also be used for emergency transfusions, as a replacement for blood lost in surgery and as an alternative to blood during low temperature surgery. Artificial blood also removes the risk of infection and does not trigger an immune response. Cryonics is a speculative life support technology that seeks to preserve human life in a state that will be viable and treatable by future medicine. BioTime, California, USA, in 1992.
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Biosphere scientists Goga Malich (right) and Taber McCallum seen after diving inside the artificial ocean of the Biosphere 2 Project during construction. The Ocean 'biome' provided a source of fish during the two-year duration of the Project. Water that evaporated from the surface of the 'ocean' was condensed and filtered to provide fresh water for consumption and to replenish the freshwater stream.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization.  1990
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Biosphere candidate Roy Walford, former pathologist at UCLA Medical School studying aging on three-year-old mice that have restricted and unrestricted diets (left to right, respectively).  The conclusion was that mice on a calorically restricted diet were healthier and lived longer.  (This study was done by Walford in Los Angeles). Walford authored a book titled The Anti-Aging Plan. He died in 2004 at age 79 of ALS. Walford had been involved in the Project since 1983, and had set up the Biosphere's medical centre.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization.  MODEL RELEASED 1990
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  • (1992) The Guertler's, a Mormon family, were all DNA fingerprinted in Salt Lake City, Utah. The family is shown in the Later Day Saints Tabernacle.  Left to Right:  Daniel Guertler, Christian Guertler, Hans E. Guertler, Bernice Guertler, Lucile Swenson, Hans K. Guertler, Karla Guertler, Klaus Guertler, Monika Nygaard, Andreas Guertler, Tony Guertler, Stefan Guertler. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Katherine Navas, a high school student  (behind counter in shop on right), tends to a customer behind the counter of her stepfather's Internet and copy shop in Caracus, Venezuela. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Bars on all the windows, doors, and balconies signal that security is a major concern in this neighborhood. Caracas was the murder capital of the world in 2008; 50 murders in one weekend is not unheard of. Local gangs are viciously territorial and ruthless in their victimization of the hardworking, law-abiding majority. Noemi Hurtado, an 83-year-old who has lived a stone's throw from Katherine's house for the past 51 years, has never once crossed into the barrio of La Silsa. "It's too dangerous," she says. "I would never go there." When Noemi moved to western Caracas, the La Silsa barrio didn't yet exist; the hills surrounding the valley were forested and, she remembers, there were waterfalls.
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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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  • Ferran Adrià (right), chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava,  in northern Spain, smells ingredients while speaking to a colleague. (Ferran Adria is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Icelandic cod fisherman Karol Karelsson (right) enjoys a meal with his co-workers in the galley of a fishing boat off the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland. (Karol Karelsson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz (right), a master baker and confectioner at work as a baker and pastry chef at Bastians Restaurant and bakery in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz (right), a master baker and confectioner at work as a baker and pastry chef at Bastians Restaurant and bakery in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran, gripping his leg tightly as he experiences one of many episodes of phantom pain at his parents home in Inglewood, California. (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 2100 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 135 pounds. Felipe was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. Damaged nerves that normally enervate a missing or paralyzed body part can trigger the body's most basic warning that something isn't right: pain. Felipe experiences these phantom pains, which feel like stabbing electric shocks, dozens of times a day; they cause him to grip his leg tightly for a moment or two until the sensation subsides. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tiffany Whitehead,(right) a student and part-time ride supervisor at the Mall of America amusement park, goes on a routine check of the mall with a colleague in Bloomington, Minnesota. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992. Tiffany's job involves a lot of walking. Her main beat is the amusement park area, where she responds to radio calls regarding stalled rides and lost children and answers visitors' questions. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robina Weiser-Linnartz (right), a master baker and confectioner at work as a baker and pastry chef at Bastians Restaurant and bakery in Cologne, Germany. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds.
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  • Jill McTighe (right), a mother and school aide,  enjoys dinner with her husband Earl Gillespie and their children at their home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is  31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family. Jill herself is MODEL RELEASED  [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is 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 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Tibetan nomads inside a handmade yak-wool tent, which serves as their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Worshippers eating at Sri Swami Santdas Udaasin Ashram, in Ujjain, India. On the right is Sitarani Tyaagi, one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests (called Sadhus) that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. (Sitarani Tyaai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80Diets.) Generally he eats one meal per day and has water for the other two meals. He has a small pot that he carries with him for water. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds.
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  • Chen Zhen (right) a law student with her friend on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in June was 2600 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 106 pounds.  Chen Zhen eats at KFC 3 times a week and what she eats depends on the coupons that she and her friends gather to defray the cost of the meal. The rest of her meals in the course of a week are largely Chinese and traditional. She eats simple fare at her university campus cafeteria--soups with rice and vegetables. Her grandparents and father go without meat throughout the week so they can serve it to her on the weekends when she's home from school. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Ruma Akhter (far right with folded arms in blue sari) lives with her family of six in a rented 10-foot-by-10-foot square room in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where they share a communal kitchen and latrines with 8 other families.  (Ruma Akhter 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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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya as her daughter looks on. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right) a mother of four and microloan recipient speaks to  a friend outside her small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, attends a community sporting event in the Kibera slum in Naiorobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez, a restaurant owner and chef with her typical day's worth of food in her family's Mexican restaurant, Los Dos Laredos in Chicago. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 3,200 kcals. She is is 39 years of age; 5 feet, 2.5 inches tall; and 190 pounds.   She grew up in an apartment above Los Dos Laredos, where she still helps out two days a week. Other days she spends long hours at her own restaurant in Alsip, Illinois. At right: Lourdes takes a phone order, while her daughter, Alejandra, checks her mobile phone after school. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kelvin Lester, a floor supervisor at a meat processing company with his typical day's worth of food at his kitchen table in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in June was 2,600 kcals. He is 44 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 195 pounds. The hands on the right belong to Kiara, his four-year-old adopted daughter. Several times a week, hamburger patties that he purchases with an employee discount wind up on his dinner table, and then go into his lunch box, along with his wife's homemade potato salad. With more than 20 years of experience grinding beef at the Rochester Meat Company, Kelvin says he always grills hamburgers?no matter who has ground them?until they are well-done, because any contamination is most easily rendered harmless by thorough cooking, meaning cooking them to an internal temperature of at least 160 degrees Fahrenheit. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Future kitchen. Professor Mike Hawley (middle) and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in the 'kitchen of the future' prototype. Here, one of Hawley's colleagues (at left) is holding a 'digital nose' device. This analyses smells from the bowl's contents. It then tells the user (via the computer at centre right) how fresh the food is and suggests further ingredients. This is all part of MIT's Counter Intelligence project which includes using computers in food preparation and laying the table, as well as the inclusion of computer-simulated dinner guests. MODEL RELEASED. (1999)
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  • Future kitchen. Professor Mike Hawley (middle) and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in the 'kitchen of the future' prototype. Here, one of Hawley's colleagues (at left) is holding a 'digital nose' device. This analyses smells from the bowl's contents. It then tells the user (via the computer at center right) how fresh the food is and suggests further ingredients. This is all part of MIT's Counter Intelligence project which includes using computers in food preparation and laying the table, as well as the inclusion of computer-simulated dinner guests. MODEL RELEASED. (1999)
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  • Practical astronomy. A logbook and calculator used by a crewmember of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The logbook details the times at, which liquid helium and nitrogen were added to the cryogenic system of the KAO's far-infrared telescope. At right is a chart used to plan observations with an infrared polarimeter fitted to the telescope. The calculator, a programmable type, may be used for work on preliminary data. NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory: Astronomy from the stratosphere. NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Data gathered during a mission to be analyzed.
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  • Reviewing the results of her work, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Manuela Veloso (kneeling) watches the university soccer-robot team chase after the ball on a field on the floor of her lab. Every year, the Carnegie Mellon squad plays against other soccer-robot teams from around the world in an international competition known as RoboCup. Veloso's team, CMUnited, is highly regarded. Flanked by research engineer Sorin Achim, postdoctoral fellow Peter Stone, and graduate research assistant Michael Bowling (right to left), Veloso is running through the current year's strategy a month before the world championships in Stockholm. CMU's AIBO team members are Scott Lenser, Elly Winner, and James Bruce. Pittsburgh, PA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 214.
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  • Bob Goodman, a rancher in Halfway, Oregon, lost his arm in a freak accident. Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Goodman can do most things as he did before his accident. Here he is putting his arm on right after he wakes up and gets dressed in his bedroom.
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  • Researchers adjust the mechanism of WE-3RIII, Waseda University's head robot, after it accidentally whiplashed into its own wires. In a situation all too familiar to robotics researchers, Atsuo Takanishi ( hand on right) is trying to make his creation work. His research team's robot, WE-3RIII (Waseda Eye Number 3 Refined Version III) can follow a light with its digital-camera eyes, moving its head if needed. In the laboratory the robot worked perfectly, its movements almost disconcertingly lifelike. But while being installed at a robot exhibit in Tokyo, WE-3RIII inexplicably and violently threw back its head, tearing apart its own wiring. Now Takanishi and one of his students (hand on left) are puzzling over the problem and will solve it only in the early hours of the morning before the exhibit opened. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 233.
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  • In a situation all too familiar to robotics researchers, Atsuo Takanishi (on right) is trying to make his creation work. His research team's robot, WE-3RIII (Waseda Eye Number 3 Refined Version III) can follow a light with its digital-camera eyes, moving its head if needed. In the laboratory the robot worked perfectly, its movements almost disconcertingly lifelike. But while being installed at a robot exhibit in Tokyo, WE-3RIII inexplicably and violently threw back its head, tearing apart its own wiring. Now Takanishi and one of his students are puzzling over the problem and will solve it only in the early hours of the morning before the exhibit opened. Japan.From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 40-41..
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  • Rosa Matíaz sells roasted and salted chapulines (grasshoppers, large on left and small on right) and live maguey worms (feeding on apple halves) in Oaxaca's Central Market, Oaxaca, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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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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  • Sangay, her children, and young sister Zekom (second from right) eat a snack of toasted grain. Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • The Sobczynscy family in the main room of their apartment in Konstancin-Jeziorna; Poland; outside Warsaw; with a week's worth of food. Marzena Sobczynska; 32; and Hubert Sobczynski; 31; stand in the rear; with Marzena's parents; Jan Boimski; 59; and Anna Boimska; 56; to their right and their daughter Klaudia; 13; on the couch. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Madsen family in their living room in Cap Hope village, Greenland, with a week's worth of food. Standing by the TV are Emil Madsen, 40, and Erika Madsen, 26, with their children (left to right) Martin, 9, Belissa, 6, and Abraham, 12. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Bainton family in the dining area of their living room in Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, with a week's worth of food. Left to right: Mark Bainton, 44, Deb Bainton, 45 (petting Polo the dog), and sons Josh, 14, and Tadd, 12. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Mustapha family in their courtyard in Dar es Salaam village, Chad, with a week's worth of food. Gathered around Mustapha Abdallah Ishakh, 46 (turban), and Khadidja Baradine, 42 (orange scarf), are Abdel Kerim, 14, Amna, 12 (standing), Nafissa, 6, and Halima, 18 months. Lying on a rug are (left to right) Fatna, 3, granddaughter Amna Ishakh (standing in for Abdallah, 9, who is herding), and Rawda, 5. The Mustapha family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 68).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. Cooking method: wood fire. Food preservation: natural drying. Favorite food: D'jimia: soup with fresh sheep meat. The Aboubakar family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 56).
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  • The Dudo family in the kitchen/dining room of their home in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with one week's worth of food. Standing between Ensada Dudo, 32, and Rasim Dudo, 36, are their children (left to right): Ibrahim, 8, Emina, 3, and Amila, 6. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Ayme family in their kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, with one week's worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, and Orlando Ayme, sit flanked by their children (left to right): Livia, Natalie, Moises, Alvarito, Jessica, Orlando hijo (Junior, held by Ermelinda), and Mauricio. The Ayme family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 106).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Sobczynscy family in the main room of their apartment in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, outside Warsaw; with a week's worth of food. Marzena Sobczynska, and Hubert Sobczynski stand in the rear; with Marzena's parents; Jan Boimski, and Anna Boimska; to their right and their daughter Klaudia on the couch. (Polish surnames are gender-based and can change when speaking of the family as a whole. "Sobscynscy" is plural). The Sobczynscy family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 246).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Production shot for the official family food portrait: The Bainton family in the dining area of their living room in Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, with a week's worth of food. Left to right: Mark Bainton, Deb Bainton (petting Polo the dog), and sons Josh, and Tadd. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Bainton family in the dining area of their living room in Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, with a week's worth of food. Left to right: Mark Bainton, Deb Bainton, (petting Polo the dog), and sons Josh, and Tadd.  The Bainton family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 140).
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  • Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Cemeteries such as this one in the Muslim quarter back right up to the residential neighborhoods nearby. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At a nursing home near Ogimi Village, most of the community turns out to honor the birthdays of three residents, including Matsu Zakimi (left), turning 97, and Sumi Matsumoto (right), turning 88. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates. 88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well-wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 195).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED: EXCEPT FOR CHECKOUT BOY) Finishing their weekly grocery shopping expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs of Beijing, China, go through the checkout line. In many restaurants and markets in China, much of the seafood is sold live as a guarantee of freshness. In other ways, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Namgay, a village elder (at left), and Chato Namgay, his 14-yearold monk son (at far right) perform a greeting ceremony with visiting monks in the family prayer room at the beginning of the village electricity celebration. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • Sitting near the food distribution center at the Breidjing Refugee Camp right after sunrise, a Sudanese refugee woman patiently sifts through the sand to pluck out any bits of grain that might have dropped to the ground during the previous day's ration disbursement. The bowl on the ground is a standard-size, two-quart coro used to measure grain. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 61). /// This image is featured alongside the Aboubakar family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 56-57 for a family portrait.)
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  • Iris Garcia Costa is toasted during her Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, by her friends and parents (Montecristi Garcia, center left, and Eulina Costa, center right. The Quinceañera is the traditional coming-of-age party for 15-year-old girls in Cuba, and other Spanish speaking countries. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • At a nursing home near Ogimi Village, most of the community turns out to honor the birthdays of three residents, including Matsu Zakimi (left), turning 97, and Sumi Matsumoto (right), turning 88. (These are traditional Japanese birthdays, not the actual birth dates?88, for example is celebrated on the eighth day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.) Musicians, dancers, and comedians perform as well-wishers cheerfully gorge on sushi, fruits, and desserts. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 195).
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  • Tiffany Whitehead,(at right), a student and part-time ride supervisor at the Mall of America amusement park, goes on a routine check of the mall with a colleague in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992. Tiffany's job involves a lot of walking. Her main beat is the amusement park area, where she responds to radio calls regarding stalled rides and lost children and answers visitors' questions.
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  • Takuya Mizuhara, an 18 year old university student (third from the right) with his friends at his favorite meeting place, McDonalds in Shibuya District of Tokyo, Japan. (Takuya Mizuhara is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The tips of the gecko's toes are covered with corrugations of fantastic complexity. The corrugations are lines of tiny hairs. Flattened in the right way against a surface, the hairs lie so tightly on the surface that the gecko's toes literally form a kind of chemical bond with it. (In technical terms, the gecko takes advantage of van der Waals force.) This is a phenomenon that intrigues researcher Alan DiPietro, of iRobot, in Somerville, MA. Clinging to the glass wall of a terrarium opposite a real gecko, DiPietro's crude, 13-centimeter-long, 100-gram Mecho-gecko has sticky feet that let it clumsily cling to walls, at least for short intervals. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 92-93.
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  • Signs of the four-year siege of Sarajevo are still obvious today. Cemeteries such as this one in the Muslim quarter back right up to the residential neighborhoods nearby. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Namgay (left, by fire) and his wife Nalim (right, by fire) eat a lunch of red rice and a small cup of cooked vegetables with their family and friends in the kitchen area of their earth-walled house in Shingkhey, a remote village in the mountains of Bhutan. The kitchen and adjoining rooms are often smoky because the cookstove/fireplace is inside the house and doesn't vent to the outside. Nalim says that she would like to build a kitchen in a different building but can't afford it. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 39).
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  • Flying over Kuwait right after the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the desert is covered in smoke. The lights burning through the heavy clouds of smoke are some of the more than 700 wells that were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Dale Emery at the controls of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The image from the microscope is displayed on the TV-type screens. The subject under the microscope is a 250 micron-diameter wobble motor, a micromechanical device. Just visible in the display running diagonally across the right of the screen is a human hair included for comparison. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Model Released
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  • Martinus Himan, a Dani child with a mouthful of roasted stink bugs, Soroba Village, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (page 7 Bottom Right. See also page 79)
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  • Mr. Moni, right,  shows off the lobby of the new 25 room hotel facing Bangladesh's newest tourist attraction. Ahsanullah Moni, a millionaire film director and businessman, built a replica of India's Taj Majal in the rice fields near his home village outside of Dhaka, Bangldesh. He says he built it because most  Banglashi people cannot afford the trip to Agra, India to see the real thing. The entry fee for his replica is 50 Taka, about  .75 USD. There is a 25 room hotel facing the Bangla Taj and he says his plans include a film studio and center nearby. The construction of the main Taj will be completed in about a month but the tourist attraction is now open to the public. Moni claims about 20,000 people visit daily. There is only a single lane two kilometer road winding through the surrounding rice fields connecting the main road to his attraction, near the town of Sonargaon, about 30 kilometers from Dhaka.
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  • Competitive eater Joey Chestnut (sitting at right), who won $5,000 first prize in the Famous Famiglia world championship pizza eating contest in New York City's Times Square by eating 45 slices of cheese pizza in 10 minutes. (Joey Chestnut is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Each slice weighed 109 grams (3.84 ounces) (3.84 ounces) and contained 260 calories. In ten minutes Joey consumed 10.81 pounds (4.9 kilograms) of pizza and drank a gallon of water. The pizza contained 11,700 calories.
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  • When a terrifying earthquake leveled part of Turkey in the fall of 1999, rescuers had trouble pulling victims from the rubble because it was too risky to crawl through the unstable ruins. As a result, some people died before they could be rescued. Shigeo Hirose of the Tokyo Technical Institute thinks he may have the solution: Blue Dragon (Souryu in Japanese). A light, triple-jointed robot with a digital camera in its nose, Blue Dragon could crawl through an earthquake-damaged building in search of survivors. Wriggling over a pile of shattered concrete on a construction site at the institute's campus, the battery-operated robot fell over several times, but righted itself quickly and continued slithering through the pile of stone. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 148-149.
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