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  • Lan Guihua's son, his dog, and a woman from the city of Chengdu ride a motorcycle he bought with proceeds from farming in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Women carry girls in Christmas colors on a motorcycle in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Motorcycle traffic yields to pedestrians on a busy street in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
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  • Motorcycle breakdown on Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs. Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • Motorcycle taxis tout for customers in Mancapuru, Brazil
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  • Motorcyclists approach a busy traffic intersection on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam. Motorcycles are the most common mode of transport in Vietnam.
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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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  • Traffic on a busy street in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A solar panel and satellite dish are seen outside the handmade yak-wool tents Tibetan nomadic herders make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish 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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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, rides his motor scooter near his home on a weekend in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Like many of the thousands of call center workers in India, he relies on fast-food meals, candy bars, and coffee to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to Westerners about various technical questions and billing problems. He took a temporary detour into the call center world to pay medical and school bills but finds himself still there after two years, not knowing when or if he will return to his professional studies.
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  • Patrons with cups of tea in their hands stand outside a popular tea and breakfast restaurant on a weekend in Bangalore, India.
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  • Motorcyclists wait as pedestrians cross a busy street in Shanghai, China.
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  • Morning motocycle traffic on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, pass by one of the lakes in the city.
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  • A motorcyclist carries a child in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos. Bamboo bridge over the Nam Song River.
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  • Old houses, two mobilettes, and a Deux Chevaux car alongside a canal in Amiens, France.
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  • Evening traffic winds through a street in the old quarter section of downtown Hanoi.
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  • Near Tuba City, Arizona
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  • Red-gold sunset near the village of Kouakourou, Mali, Africa. This man has come from a neighboring village to the Saturday market on his motorbike. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Bikers in Lone Pine, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Siem Reap, Cambodia. Aids warning billboard.
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  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Oakland, California. The highest concentration of fatalities, 42, occurred in the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where a double-decker portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
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  • Aftermath of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in Oakland, California. The highest concentration of fatalities, 42, occurred in the collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct on the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880), where a double-decker portion of the freeway collapsed, crushing the cars on the lower deck. At a magnitude of 7.1, it was the worst earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906.
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  • Shashi Kanth parks his motor scooter outside the flat he shares with his mother before leaving for his overnight job in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in December was 3000 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi, one of thousands of call center employees working in Bangalore, India, relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. Shashi's mother cooks traditional southern India food for him at home, which he loves, but when he's at work , KFC and Beijing Bites, fast food restaurants on the ground floor of the building he works in, are his dinner options.
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  • Tangled electricity cables hang over a busy street in Hanoi. Vietnam's transport and communication infrastructure is weak but the economy is expanding rapidly.
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  • Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monivong Boulevard early morning rush hour commuters on motorcycles stop at an intersection.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos. Nam Song River toll bridge.
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  • FRA_040619_004_x.Olivier Dumont on his new motor scooter, Paris, France..
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos.
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  • Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monivong Boulevard morning traffic.
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  • Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Traffic moves around a police officer directing traffic on Monivong Boulevard.
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  • Jeeraporn Khuenkaew rides the family's most treasured possession?their motorcycle, on a Saturday along with some of her classmates who will join her at school for an agriculture class. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Fast food delivery person with motorcycle in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Taipei, Taiwan morning rush hour commute, with thousands of commuters on motor scooters and motorcycles.
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  • Viterbo, Italy old street with motorcycles and a picture of a pink poodle.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan morning rush hour commute, with thousands of commuters on motor scooters and motorcycles.
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