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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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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A supporter at a pro-Chavez demonstration in  in support of proposed constitutional reforms giving him more power in Caracas, Venezuela in November 2007.
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  • Todd Kincer, a coal miner, with his face blackened with coal dust after an industrious day at work in a coal mine located deep inside a mountain in the Appalachians near the town of Whitesburg, Kentucky. (Todd Kincer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After showering and scrubbing off the day's coal dust, Todd gets ready to dig in to one of his favorite meals: Hamburger Helper with double noodles. A college graduate drawn to the coal mine by the relatively high pay, Todd spends a 10-hour shift mining underground, driving a low-slung electric shuttle car that carries coal from the face of the coal seam, where it's being chewed up by a deafening, dusty mining machine, to a conveyer belt. The coal mine in which Kincer works is pitch-black, except for headlights and headlamps. During winter months, Todd never sees daylight during the workweek. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oakland A's baseball team vs. the New York Yankees, sell-out crowd, Oakland, California. 1981. USA.
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  • Slow Food celebration at Ft. Mason, San Francisco
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  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Metal posts placed precisely using a robotic system provide a stable anchor for magnetic attachment of artificial body parts at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. 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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  • Perennial Burning Man attendee Nambla the clown (NAMBLA is an acronym for North American Man Boy Love Association) sports a crown of candles and dripping wax. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: 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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  • Black Rock Desert, Nevada.An early morning aerial of the Burning Man encampment on Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Over 20 thousand celebrants are camped around the 50-foot tall figure called Burning Man. The weeklong experiment in freewheeling community living, avant-garde art performance, and costumery (also drugs and sex), culminates with the Saturday night burning of the man. Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses some very rugged terrain. .Hal Hall's winning horse Francisco takes a hay and water break as the full moon rises.near mile 78 in. (1990).
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  • Hawk, Sonora Desert Museum, near Tucson, Arizona.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked.
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  • Aerial photograph of Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California.
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  • An aerial photograph of J.R. Simplot cattle feedlot near the J.R. Simplot potato processing plant in Idaho. The cattle are fattened on grain and potato waste from processing. J.R. Simplot Company is the largest supplier of French fries to McDonald's fast food company. USA.
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  • An aerial photograph of J.R. Simplot cattle feedlot near the J.R. Simplot potato processing plant in Idaho. The cattle are fattened on grain and potato waste from processing. J.R. Simplot Company is the largest supplier of French fries to McDonald's fast food company. USA.
    USA_AG_BEEF_27_xs.jpg
  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses.]]
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  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Elephant Village near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. Surrounding the dairy are fields growing hay for the cows.
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  • An aerial photograph of J.R. Simplot cattle feedlot near the J.R. Simplot potato processing plant in Idaho. The cattle are fattened on grain and potato waste from processing. J.R. Simplot Company is the largest supplier of French fries to McDonald's fast food company. USA.
    USA_AG_BEEF_28_xs.jpg
  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_15_xs.jpg
  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • War games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Combatant playing war peers out a window with his paintball gun ready to fire at the Sat Cong Village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • War game combatant at Sat Cong village paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. He surrenders after being shot in the face with a blue paintball. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Professor Boris Rubinsky at University of California Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering. He developed the first "bionic chip" in which a biological cell is part of the actual electronic circuitry invented with graduate student Yong Huang. MODEL RELEASED [2001]
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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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  • 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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  • Metal posts placed precisely using a robotic system provide a stable anchor for magnetic attachment of this artificial body part at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Medical Exam of a Boa Snake. Veterinarian School, University of California, Davis. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • An aerial photograph of J.R. Simplot cattle feedlot near the J.R. Simplot potato processing plant in Idaho. The cattle are fattened on grain and potato waste from processing. J.R. Simplot Company is the largest supplier of French fries to McDonald's fast food company. USA.
    USA_AG_BEEF_27_xs.jpg
  • Phil Smith and Randy BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia .
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  • BASE jumping from New River Gorge bridge, Bridge Day, West Virginia, USA. BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport. -from Wikipedia.
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  • Physics: Assembly of Bismuth Germanium Oxide (BGO) Crystal for the L-3 experiment at CERN. BGO (formula Bi4 Ge3 O12) is used to detect electrons and photons generated by electron- positron collisions in the LEP Collider ring. When an electron or photon enters the crystal, its energy is converted into light. The light is channeled by the crystal to photodiodes, producing an electronic signal. 11, 000 crystals, totaling 12 tons in weight, are used in the detector, measuring the energy and position of the incoming particles at very high resolution. The LEP and L- 3 detector were inaugurated on 13 November 1989. Geneva, Switzerland. [1988]
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry.
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  • Anita Flynn with "Gnat" at the M.I.T. Insect Robot Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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  • Fish, fish eyes and other varieties of sea food are displayed for sale at the Suao Port, in Taiwan.
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  • Rockefeller Center Ice Rink and Christmas tree, New York City. Shot with a very wide-angle lens that distorts the buildings on the edges of the frame. USA.
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  • Group of homeless people in Boston in winter, keeping warm on a ventilation grill by the Boston Public Library.  New England, USA.
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  • Old Town Square wedding.  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Basketball courts next to the Palace of Culture and Science,  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .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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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Hardiwar, India; Ganges, Kumbh Mela Festival. 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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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's dog Arfy after a rattlesnake bite to his muzzle. Two drops of blood are oozing from the bite. He is going into shock. He had his blood changed in an overnight procedure that saved his life. MODEL RELEASED. [[2001]].
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  • Moth on grass.
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Jennifer at the Cerro Gordo, Ghost Mining Town. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Blow Me Down Grange, Plainfield, NH
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A giant stone face in the Bayon Temple in Angkor, Cambodia. A temple-mountain complex containing 200 gigantic faces. The Banyon is a massive temple complex built by Jayavarman VII between 1181 and 1220. It features 3,936 feet of superb bas-relief carving and mysterious Buddha faces carved on the towers of the third level. The temples at Angkor are spread out over some 40 miles around the village of Siem Reap, about 192 miles from the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. They were built between the eighth and 13th centuries and range from single towers made of bricks to vast stone temple complexes. .
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  • A rear view through a cross-section of a woman's head at Gunther von Hagens' Bodyworlds exhibit. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • A basket of bigeye snapper is  displayed on a bed of ice for shoppers at the Daxi fish market Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A basketful of goat heads is displayed at the busy Santinagar Market in   Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Young girls in the Chairman District slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • One of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors with her child in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.   (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shahnaz, a mother of four, got her first micro loan several years ago, from the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fish from the coast for sale at the mountain village market in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A hooded penitent in a night-time procession during Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • A man with a shaved head gets painted red at Burning Man. 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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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef cattle heads. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Blow Me Down Grange, Plainfield, NH
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Antique shop. Copenhagen, Denmark.
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  • At Tad Sae Waterfall, near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Buddhist stauary on Phousi Hill in the center of Luang Prabang.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Man with Mayan features wearing a straw sombrero in a market in Campeche, Mexico.
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  • Ali Nar "Ali Burao", chewing qat green leaves from Ethiopia. Chewing qat is popular among men. Qat green leaves produce an amphetamine-like high. The leaves are delivered daily by an armed convoy from a small airstrip in the desert where Cessnas fly it in daily. Taken in Somaliland, a breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Soumana Natomo of Kouakourou, Mali, wraps his head and face for protection against many different elements. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 212). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, 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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  • DB gazes intently at the camera by means of two pairs of lenses in each "eye." In a configuration increasingly common in humanoid robots, one lens in each pair sharply focuses on the center of the visual field while the other gives a broader perspective. These two points of view, surprisingly, mimic the human eye, which seamlessly blends together information from the fovea centralis, a small area of precise focus in the center of the retina, and the parafovea, a larger, but much less acute area surrounding the fovea. Similarly, DB has a vestibular system in its ears, vestibular systems being the inner-ear mechanisms that people use to balance themselves.  The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan.
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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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  • This young boy with green heart-shaped sunglasses is reading Koranic verses on a wooden tablet under the watchful eye of the Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali as he teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of a naga who has been smoking hash at Kumbh Mela.  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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  • A pilgrim reads holy scriptures on the banks of the Ganges before dawn. 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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  • Pilgrims at Kumbh Mela. 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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  • 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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  • Naked nagas parading down to the Ganges for a bath. 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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  • 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. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
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  • 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. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
    IND_080_xs.jpg
  • 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. Here, across the river, a ghat is dedicated to sadhus and nagas so they can bathe in relative peace.
    IND_079_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    IND_074_xs.jpg
  • 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.
    IND_072_xs.jpg
  • Virtual reality: Jaron Lanier, head of VPL Research of Redwood City, California. Fiber- optic sensors in the black rubber glove Lanier is wearing transmit a user's movements into the computer-generated virtual environment. A user's view of such a world is projected by the computer into 2 eye phones mounted on a headset. Model Released (1990)
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