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  • Teenaged land mine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland?the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
    SOM_40_xs.jpg
  • Living in earthquake rubble, near Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City, Mexico.
    MEX_EQ_05_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_46_xs.jpg
  • (1992) Narborough station, town where Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth resided; Lynda Mann was raped and murdered in 1983 forensic scientists took semen samples, but couldn't find a murderer. In 1986 Dawn Ashworth was murdered a similar way. Police were convinced that the same assailant had committed both murders, and the FSS recovered semen samples from Dawn's body that revealed her attacker had the same blood type as Lynda's murderer. Colin Pitchfork was arrested and his DNA profile was found to match with the semen from both murders. He was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment for the two murders in 1988.
    GBR_SCI_DNA_20_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser, seen here with a pan of gold plated parts recovered from computers, was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_72_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice was photographed by the schoolyard fence near where he was struck by lightning. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_48_xs.jpg
  • Toy "Troy" Trice (15 years old) was hit by lightning during high school football practice in September of 1991. The strike tore a hole in his helmet, burned his jersey and blew his shoes off. He recovered from a two-day coma with burns and memory loss. Trice at home with the equipment he was wearing when hit. MODEL RELEASED (1993)
    USA_SCI_LIG_47_xs.jpg
  • A German fossil expert carrying the skull of a fossil fish, Xiphactinus. This photo was taken in a motel in Tucson, Arizona, during the annual Fossil Fair. Amateur and commercial collectors gather at the fair to trade in fossil remains. Although many academics are unhappy with such events, amateur collectors frequently discover the remains of previously unknown species or very fine examples of known species. Such fossils are recovered from private land: in the USA private individuals are rarely granted the special license needed to hunt for fossils on public land. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
    USA_SCI_FOS_09_xs.jpg
  • A landmine victim recovering in a hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war March 1992.
    SOM_43_xs.jpg
  • Amateur rocket launch. Recovering a rocket launched during the annual Black Rock X amateur rocketry event in the Black Rock desert, Nevada, USA. This huge flat expanse of land is a popular launch site for large and powerful amateur rockets as it is far from civilization and has little natural animal or plant life.
    USA_SCI_RCKT_14_nxs.jpg
  • Dr. Chris Giannou of the International Committee of the Red Cross with a patient who is recovering from a landmine blast. In the ICRC hospital in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war March 1992.
    SOM_44_xs.jpg
  • A Somalian child recovering in the hospital after being blinded and injured while playing with a landmine in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
    SOM_42_xs.jpg
  • A young Somalian girl recovering the hospital after losing her leg to a landmine in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, an unrecognized breakaway Republic of Somalia. The three leading causes of death in Somalia are gastro-enteritis, T.B. and trauma, mostly from land mines, gun shots, and car accidents. March 1992.
    SOM_41_xs.jpg

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