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  • A stabbed bull stands in the ring at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain. Each bullfight ends with the killing of the bull by the matador (bullfighter).
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  • PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela.  (Oswaldo Guterez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.
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  • The Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham, Illinois. The cross is 198 feet tall, and stands at the intersection of Highway 57 and 70.
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  • Fruits at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Different varieties of berries for sale at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Lamb meat in Chef Dan Barber kitchen at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. The restaurant produces and grows much of the fresh food it serves.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture at the Blue Hill restaurant at Pocantico Hills, New York State.
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  • A fishing boat uses bright lights and nets to catch shrimp at night near the port of Longdong, on Taiwan's northeast coast. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Just south of Longdong, the fish market at Daxi harbor has both a wholesale and a retail market.
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  • An aerial view of the town of Shibam, in the Hadhramawt Valley, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • A Buddhist stupa above the Dingha Valley, Tibet.
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  • Some of Taiwan's finest seafood delicacies are displayed at a neighborhood street market in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Bottles of honey for sale at Mercado Quinta Crespo, Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • The Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham, Illinois. The cross is 198 feet tall, and stands at the intersection of Highway 57 and 70.
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  • A family grave near the homestead of Illinois grain farmer Gordon Stine, who lives in St. Elmo, Illinois.    (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham, Illinois. A 198 foot tall cross at the intersection of Highways 57 and 70.
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  • A plate of caprese salad at a restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Different varieties of berries for sale at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Chickens scuttle out of their mobile shelters at Chef Dan Barber's Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture  in Pocantico Hills, New York. The restaurant produces and grows much of the fresh food it serves.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Sheep graze near the restaurant before dinner at Chef Dan Barber's Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture  in Pocantico Hills, New York. The restaurant produces and grows much of the fresh food it serves.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • Meat grinder Kelvin Lester grills hamburger patties at his home in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (Kelvin Lester is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Conveyor and piles of coal at a mine near the town of Appalachia, Virginia near the Kentucky border.
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  • Chickens and ducks feed in an open area outside the eggmobile at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chickens in an eggmobile at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A farmhouse at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Pigs feeding at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture near the Blue Hill restaurant at Pocantico Hills, New York State.
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  • The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture at the Blue Hill restaurant at Pocantico Hills, New York State.
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  • The desk of El Bulli restaurant chef Ferran Adrià, reveals the amount of detail and planning that goes into preparation and presentation. El Bulli restaurant is located near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain.  (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A vending machine selling votive candles in the cathedral in the town of Pals, Costa Brava, Spain. Pals is a medieval town in Catalonia a few kilometres from the sea in the heart of the Bay of Emporda on the Costa Brava.
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  • Some of the goats owned by sheepherders Miguel Martinez and his brother Paco, stand on a stonewall on a freezing foggy April morning in the village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Martinez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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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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  • The Rock Palace, near Sanaa, the capital city  of Yemen.
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  • A goat stands outside an apartment in Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • A breakfast plate of flatbread and ful (fava beans, oil, and tomatoes)  in Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • The Khailah Palace Hotel in Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • An aerial view of the town of Shibam, in the Hadhramawt Valley, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • A donkey at Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen. In the distance is the Khailah Palace Hotel.
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  • An aerial view of the city of Tarim, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • An aerial view of a Muslim cemetery in Tarim, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Jambiyas on display at a market stall in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • At dusk, the skyline of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • The view from the roof of an 8 story hotel in old Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • The view from the roof of an 8 story hotel in old Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
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  • Noodles are set out to dry on racks in So village, southwest of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • The War Memorial Cemetery in a rural village (one of thousands) near the home of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo, featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. Nearly every village has a war memorial cemetery for the millions who died during decades of war with the French, Americans, South Vietnamese, and Chinese.
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  • Fruits and vegetables displayed at a market in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Prayer flags at the Sichen Holy Lake near Ruthok, Tibet. 4,900 meters altitude, in Maldro Gunkar County.
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  • Fish displayed at a market in Suao port, Taiwan.
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  • Dumpling in bamboo baskets awaiting steaming at a dumpling restaurant in Teipei, Taiwan.
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  • Meat grilling at a birthday party at a house in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • A gravel road flanked by corn fields runs past the Illinois grain farmer Gordon Stine's farm in St. Elmo, Illinois.   (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Grain bins and hay stacks at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Boats docking at a port at sunset in Cadaques, Spain.
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  • The Al Mihdar Mosque with a 54 meter minaret in the town of Tarim, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • A view of the city of Tarim, and the Al Mihdar Mosque with its 54 meter minaret,one of the tallest in the world, in the  Hadhramawt Valley, Yemen.
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  • Jambiyas on display at a market stall in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Plastic bags discarded after they were used for holding qat are blown by the wind and snagged on a desert bush near a qat market in BinAifan. Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • The PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, where Oswaldo Gutierrez works for seven days as a chief of of the PDVSA Oil Oil Platform GP 19. (Oswaldo Guterez is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Gutierrez takes seven days off after every seven days of work on the platform. .
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  • At dawn, the chickens in an eggmobile (portable henhouse) at Joel Salatin's farm in Shenandoah, Virginia are released to spend the day pecking in the pastures that cattle have just vacated. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The chickens spend the day eating insects, grass, seeds, and undigested bits in the cattle manure (helping to scatter it in the process).
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  • Part of the Stine's family cemetery near their family farm in St. Elmo, Illinois.   (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • Kelvin Lester, a meat grinder at the Rochester Meat Company in Rochester, Minnesota, grills hamburger patties brought from work at his home in Grand Meadows, Minnesota.  (Kelvin Lester is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Qat leaves in a bag for sale on the streets of Sanaa, Yemen. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. An old wind powered water pump is at left.
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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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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Rick Bumgardener takes a water exercise class after a gym workout at the Mercy Health and Fitness Center near his home in Halls Tennessee.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds.  Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Weighing in at 468 pounds for his first exercise class at Mercy Health and Fitness Center near his home in Halls, Tennessee, Rick learns a series of seated exercises.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds. Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them. A self-taught gospel singer, guitar player, and lay preacher, Rick used to enjoy preaching and playing on Wednesday evenings at Copper Ridge Independent Missionary Baptist Church before he became too heavy to stand for long periods. To relieve boredom, he wakes up late, plays video games, plays his guitar, and watches TV until the early hours of the morning.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, walks to a livestock market  with her husband and children in  Simiatug, Ecuador to sell sheep. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age 5 feet, 3 inches and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.
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  • Sitarani Tyaagi, an ascetic Hindu priest, with his typical day's worth of food at an ashram in Ujjain, India. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 1000 kcals. He is 70 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Sitarani Tyaagi is one of thousands of ascetic Hindu priests?called Sadhus?that walk the country of India and receive food from observant Hindus. 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. Offer him more food than a plateful, and he will kindly say, "no thanks."  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, near Minneapolis. Largest mall in the USA. No model releases.
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  • A tourist takes pictures in the Dead Vlei, a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, a drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, fixes one of her daughters' hair outside her adobe house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo 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 the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs or stove, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy in his studio workshop behind his home in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia, with his typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall; and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, a fisherman, in his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River with his typical day's worth of food in  Manacapuru, Brazil. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • João Agustinho Cardoso, fishes in a shallow lake near the Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Brazil. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food for a typical day in the month of November was 5200 kcals. He is 69 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall and 140 pounds.  João's new house has no electricity and the toilet is simply the end of the big balsa wood logs the house is floating on. There is, however, running water, and plenty of it, in the half-mile-wide branch of the river they live on. Unfortunately the water is not potable, but it is teeming with fish, including piranha, which can make swimming during the early morning or evening worrisome. The curimata in the photo is just one of dozens of species that makes its way onto João's table. Absent from his daily diet are any alcoholic or caffeinated beverages, eschewed by his Seventh-day Adventist religion.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia prepares her family's fish dinner by the light of an oil lamp at the kitchen window of their riverside farmhouse near the town of Caviana, Amazonas, Brazil. (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 November was 3400 kcals. She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  With no indoor plumbing, she tackles anything messy on an overhanging counter, letting chickens and dogs clean up the scraps below.
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  • Port Lockroy, Antarctic Treaty Historic Site No. 61, British Base A. Home to a small Gentoo penguin colony. Antarctica.
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  • Kayaking by icebergs near Port Lockroy, Antarctic Treaty Historic Site No. 61, British Base A. Home to a small Gentoo penguin colony. Antarctica.
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  • Rick Bumgardener, a self-taught gospel singer, guitar player, and lay preacher, sings an original song, ?Give Us Barabbas,? at his home in Halls, Tennessee while his dog, Bear lies at his feet. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds. Rick used to enjoy preaching and playing on Wednesday evenings at Copper Ridge Independent Missionary Baptist Church before he became too heavy to stand for long periods. Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them. To relieve boredom, he wakes up late, plays video games, plays his guitar, and watches TV until the early hours of the morning. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art restorer  Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy (center)  enjoys supper with his family in their house, near on Lake Ladoga, in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53; 6a feet two inches and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says.
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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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  • Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions as she cultivates potatoes with her husband Orlando in their village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet; What the World Eats  (p. 117) Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mama (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 106-107 for a family portrait [Image number ECU04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks' worth of food, and the family's detailed food list with total cost.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Truck accident. There is no room for mistakes on the winding narrow one lane "highway" that traverses the Himalayan country of Bhutan. It is used most frequently by large trucks hauling goods and people. The driver here was fortunate that the truck didn't plunge down the mountainside from this section of road between the airport town of Paro and the national capital Thimphu. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it.
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child:every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..MODEL RELEASED..
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  • USA_SCI_PHAR_01_xs .Pherin Pharmaceutical in Mountain View, California. Dr. C Jennings-White, Vice-President. Chemical research in lab with test compounds. MODEL RELEASED (2002).Pherin Pharmaceutical produces a family of pharmaceutical compounds called vomeropherins. These compounds are delivered to the vomeronasal organ (VNO) that in turn affects the hypothalamus and the limbic system. The human VNO is linked to the hypothalamus and limbic areas, which enables Pherin to develop therapeutic drugs targeted against a variety of medical conditions associated with these brain regions such as mood disorders, neuro-endocrine function, body weight management, body temperature, sexual motivation, water and salt balance, blood pressure, and sugar and fat metabolism. .The vomeronasal organ (VNO) or Jacobson's organ is an auxiliary olfactory sense organ in some tetrapods. In adults, it is located in the vomer bone, between the nose and the mouth. Anatomical studies demonstrate that in humans the vomeronasal organ regresses during fetal development, as is the case with some other mammals, including other apes, cetaceans, and some bats. There is no evidence of a neural connection between the organ and the brain in adult humans. Nevertheless, a small pit can be found in the nasal septum of some people, and some researchers have argued that this pit represents a functional vomeronasal organ. Thus, its possible presence in humans remains controversial.
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child:every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..
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  • FINAL CONTACT: "GRAVEWATCH".  Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones became quite popular in the 21st century. Adding snippets of video of the diseased was quite easy to program since nearly every family had extensively documented their family time with small digital videocams. AI (artificial intelligence) computer programs made conversations with the dead quite easy. These virtual visits to the underworld became passé within a decade however, and graveyard visits became less common. By mid-century many people wanted to insure that their relatives would continue paying their respects, and keeping their memory alive. New technology insured regular visits to the gravesite to pick up a monthly inheritance check issued electronically by a built-in device with wireless connection to the living relative's bank account. Face recognition (and retinal scanners on high-end models) insured that family members were present during the half-hour visits. A pressure pad at the foot of the grave activated the system and after 30 minutes of kneeling at the grave, watching videos or prerecorded messages or admonitions, a message flashed on the screen, indicating that a deposit had been made electronically to their bank account. For the Wright family of Napa, California, there is no other way to collect Uncle Eno's inheritance other than by monthly kneelings. ["Gravewatch" tombstones shown with "Retscan" retinal scanning ID monitors.] MODEL RELEASED
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  • FINAL CONTACT: "GRAVEWATCH".  Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones became quite popular in the 21st century. Adding snippets of video of the diseased was quite easy to program since nearly every family had extensively documented their family time with small digital videocams. AI (artificial intelligence) computer programs made conversations with the dead quite easy. These virtual visits to the underworld became passé within a decade however, and graveyard visits became less common. By mid-century many people wanted to insure that their relatives would continue paying their respects, and keeping their memory alive. New technology insured regular visits to the gravesite to pick up a monthly inheritance check issued electronically by a built-in device with wireless connection to the living relative's bank account. Face recognition (and retinal scanners on high-end models) insured that family members were present during the half-hour visits. A pressure pad at the foot of the grave activated the system and after 30 minutes of kneeling at the grave, watching videos or prerecorded messages or admonitions, a message flashed on the screen, indicating that a deposit had been made electronically to their bank account. For the Wright family of Napa, California, there is no other way to collect Uncle Eno's inheritance other than by monthly kneelings. ["Gravewatch" tombstones shown with "Retscan" retinal scanning ID monitors.] MODEL RELEASED
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