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  • Man making charcoal in the traditional way in Viloria. They pile seasoned oak logs into a pyramid, cover it with earth and slowly monitor its burning for several days to make charcoal.  Viloria, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Wine grape harvest with a single row mechanical grape harvester, Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Grape picking near  San Vincente de la Sonsierra for the Remelluri Bodega in Labastida (Alava Province). Rioja, Spain.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • Grape harvest near Castillo de Davilillo, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Picking red grapes, San Vincente de la Sonsierra. Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wine grapes being picked and de-stemmed by a single-row harvesting machine in the Napa Valley, California. USA.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Siem Reap, Cambodia. A pile of human skulls marking one of the Killing Fields memorials.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Clark's Harbor on Cape Sable Island. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda 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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  • Coober Pedy opal mine. South Australia.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
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  • Uwe George and Venita Kaleps from German GEO visiting Menzel and D'Aluisio at their home in Napa Valley, CA
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  • Pho Thanh Ha traditional street market in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam
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  • Taitung, Taiwan. Buddha's head tropical fruit, a delicacy grown in Taitung.
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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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  • Redwood Logs, Northern California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Redwood Logs, Northern California, USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. August. Napa Valley, CA
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Coober Pedy opal mine. South Australia.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • Kuwait: Ahmadi Moslem graveyard; British explosive ordnance disposal team loading Iraqi arms/ordnance.
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  • British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team in an Ahmadi Moslem graveyard loading artillery shells on a truck for disposal. Huge amounts of munitions were abandoned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops in February, 1991. Also, nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert.
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  • A typical roundhouse in Mingha Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • The shoes of landmine victims in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Nearby, a de-mining crew found a mass grave where 200 locals were executed by the Siad Barre governmental troops in 1988. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war March 1992.
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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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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
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  • Cape Sable Island, Clark's Harbor. Lobster traps in silhouette, on the dock with setting sun. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark. Noma Restaurant. Voted number one in the world.
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda 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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  • Ta Prohm:. A very large temple complex enclosed by a moat and one of the most beautiful of the Khmer temples as it has not been restored, but has been left surrounded by jungle. It was built by Jayavarman VII in the late 12th century. 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. Faith D'Aluisio looks at the tree that has grown up to encase part of the temple.
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  • Old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery the day after All Saints Day. The day after, trash bins are full from grave clean-ups.
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  • Photographer Peter Menzel's telephoto lens compresses the naked bodies of New York artist Spencer Tunick's production of nudes lying on the desert at the Burning Man Festival in the 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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  • Processed Redwood timber ready for distribution at Scotia Redwood Mill, the largest redwood mill in the world.  Scotia, Humbolt County, California, USA.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Surplus oranges fed to cattle by H and E Cattle Feed Company near Bakersfield, California, USA.
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  • Unloading surplus naval oranges at the Sunkist Orange Juice Factory, Lindsay, California, USA. Only a small percentage of naval oranges can be used in juice mix because it tends to separate. Other surplus naval oranges are used for cattle feed.
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  • Surplus oranges and lemons are chopped up and dried in the sun for cattle feed by the Sungro Company on an old airfield runway in Famoso, California, USA. Don Smith's cattle feed drying lot.
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  • Surplus oranges fed to cattle by H and E Cattle Feed Company near Bakersfield, California, USA.
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  • An aerial photograph of mounds of harvested almonds at sunrise.  The almonds must dry in the sun for a few days before they are ready for packaging and shipping. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Culled carrots are used for cattle feed at Don Smith's Sun-Gro drying operation on an unused airport runway. Famoso, California (near Bakersfield). USA.
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  • USA_AG_BEEF_30_xs.Cattle drowned during a Sacramento River Delta flood caused by a levee break are loaded onto a truck with a crane. 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 carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. 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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  • Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Napa Valley, CALIFORNIA.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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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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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Woman selling shrimp at the Mercado de Abastos Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Money changers with stacks of old Somali shillings.  Old Somali shillings as seen here are still used in Somalia. The government hasn't printed new money yet. Five U.S. dollars equal a 3-inch stack of 100 shilling notes. In Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war.
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  • Village near the international Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam. Market across from Avi Airport Hotel.
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  • Aerial of the log yard at Blue Lake Timber Company, Humboldt County, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomatoes just harvested, in tractor-trailers at the cannery in Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Boxes of freshly harvested pistachios being loaded onto a truck-trailer prior to delivery to the production plant where they will be dried and packaged. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • An aerial photograph of mounds of harvested almonds drying in the sun. They're dried for a few days before they are ready for packaging and shipping. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Photographer Peter Menzel in front of cooling beef carcass parts. The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. 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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  • Aerial photograph of a junkyard in Barstow, California. Auto dismantling yard.
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  • Wine from the cellar at UC Davis, California. The cellar contains 200,000 samples. Viticulture/Oenology. USA.
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  • Almaden Vineyards. Winemaster Klaus Mathes standing in Charles Lefranc cellar at Cienega Winery. Almaden Cienega Winery near Hollister, California,. The winery is located squarely across the San Andreas fault trace, and has been affected by fault creep. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Nova Scotia, Canada..Cape Sable Island, Clark's Harbor. Lobster traps in silhouette on the dock with setting sun.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaughter and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Libertad Market in Guadalajara, Mexico. Vegetable vendors seen from above.
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  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
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  • Dancing La Sardana (Catalan folk dance) in front of the Gothic Cathedral (built 13th to 15th Century) in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Redwood logs.  Blue Lake Timber Company, Humboldt County, California, USA.
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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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  • Culled carrots are used for cattle feed at Don Smith's Sun-Gro drying operation on an unused airport runway. Famoso, California (near Bakersfield). USA.
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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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  • Pile of stones and lighthouse at Cadaques, Spain, on the Costa Brava.
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  • The main course for a feast at the Lagavale family home in Western Samoa is a freshly killed pig that roasts on a pile of volcanic rocks heated by fire. Also on the fire is the pig's liver and peeled taro root. Published in Material World, page 172. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa.
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  • Nguy?n V?n Theo, a rice farmer, in his courtyard in Tho Quang village, outside Hanoi, Vietnam, 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 on a typical day in December was 2500 kcals. He is 51 years of age; 5 feet, 4 inches tall; and 110 pounds. Behind him is a pile of last year's rice straw, used for fuel to boil water in the family's small kitchen. Rainwater from the tile roof of the main house fills a cement cistern, providing water for drinking and cooking. Theo enjoys the relative tranquility of village life, compared to his wife's busy routine of selling fresh produce on the sidewalks of Hanoi. Floods ruined his rice crop a few months ago, so after last year's store of rice is eaten, the family will rely on his wife's income to buy this staple grain until he harvests the next crop. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Utterly ignoring the safety chain attached to the base of its "neck," the Honda P3 confidently walks down a flight of steps in the company lab. More than a decade ago, at the beginning of the Honda project, the research team concluded that their robot would have to be able to walk, rather than simply roll on wheels. Wheeled robots, they decided, just couldn't function in a contemporary home full of stairs, toy-strewn floors, thick pile rugs, and other obstacles. Today P3 can walk with impressive smoothness. The only real sign of its robotic nature is the way it begins to walk with a little knee-dip, to compensate for the absence of a pelvis. Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 44.
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  • Salt tailing pile in foreground of an above ground view of underground storage of radioactive wastes for the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), 700 meters below ground. WIPP is a research project to determine the suitability of the local salt rocks as a storage site for highly- radioactive transuranic waste from atomic power stations. Such waste materials may have radioactive half-lives of thousands of years, and so must be isolated in a geologically stable environment. On the left is an experiment testing the design of containers carrying vitrified waste. The mine is located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA. (1998)
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  • A woman walks past a pile of garbage at Shari Khayyamiya, a tentmakers street and market area in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Karsal, a nomadic yak herder, with his typical day's worth of food inside the family's yak-wool tent in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 5,600 kcals. He is 30 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 135 pounds. A pile of yak dung, used for fuel, looms in the background. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In such hypercompetitive circumstances, Filipino fish vendors don't sell their wares by the pound or kilo. Instead, they charge by the tumpok (pile). The size of the tumpok varies moment by moment, according to demand. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Piles of leaves and trash as the graveyard is cleaned preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • On Cuverville Island. Gentoo penguins nesting on piles of stones, chasing off skua birds, the scavengers of the Antarctic that are trying to eat their eggs and young chicks. Antarctic Penninsula.
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  • A skua bird on Cuverville Island. Gentoo penguins nesting on piles of stones chase off skua birds, the scavengers of the Antarctic as they try to eat their eggs and young chicks. Antarctic Peninsula.
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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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  • In the Abastos market, piles of chapulines, or grasshoppers, for sale among the other fresh produce of the market. Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 112 Bottom)
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  • After the death of a 72-year old man who lived across the road from the Khuenkaew family of the Material World Project, his family followed Thai tradition and bought a castle-like, wood-and-crepe paper funeral bier and placed the body on top. Then the village held a two-day wake, complete with tents, music, gambling, and outdoor barbecues. Gifts were piled atop the casket. Afterward, the men carried the bier on long bamboo poles to the cemetery. The family posed for photographs in front of the bier, said good-bye to the dead man, and left the cemetary-keeper to burn the remains. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait. pages 86 & 87. Thailand.
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  • After the death of a 72-year old man who lived across the road from the Khuenkaew family compound, his family followed Thai tradition and bought a castle-like, wood-and-crepe paper funeral bier and placed the body on top. Then the village held a two-day wake, complete with tents, music, gambling, and outdoor barbecues. Gifts were piled atop the casket. Afterward, the men carried the bier on long bamboo poles to the cemetery. The family posed for photographs in front of the bier, said good-bye to the dead man, and left the cemetary-keeper to burn the remains. Funeral. Material World Project.
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  • People sleep near the piles of wood for cremation fires on the banks of the Ganges River near the Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) which is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi.
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