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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • Amuloke Walelo, a Dani tribeswoman from Soroba village in the Baliem Highlands of central Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Four fingers of her left hand were severed when she was five years old as a tribute to family members who die. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The disfigured hand of a Dani woman. In Dani culture, the fingers of women are severed from the first knuckle at an early age as a tribute to family members who have died. Amuloke: "My older sister died and my mother cut them (my fingers) off when I was five years old with a sharp stone axe, all of them at once. Now I feel a bit angry with my mother because she cut them. When I see the other fingers complete, I feel bad about it. The cut fingers aren't good for holding. They don't work very well." Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82)
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  • Driving the Stuart Highway north of Alice Springs. Australia. View through windshield with driver on right side.
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  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
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  • During their expedition to Ito Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, the Dongs (Mr. Dong at right) of Beijing, China, inspect fresh meat at the butcher counter. In other ways too, the supermarket hews closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats). The Dong family of Beijing, China, 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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  • Oyuntsetseg (second from left) and Regzen Batsuuri (right) and their two children, Khorloo (17, left) and Batbileg (12, second from right) visit the neighborhood where they once lived in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They hadn't been back there since they lost the property. [Although property in this case is a misnomer. They owned the structures, but were squatters on the land as is everyone in the settlement because ownership of private land is not allowed in Mongolia. Land belongs to the government --2001]. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mongolia, 2001.
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  • Kouakourou Village, Mali. Pama Kondo's second eldest daughter, Pai, 18, at right with blue cup, will be married today to her first cousin, Baba Nientao (at left holding green cup), who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai this morning by her father, as is the custom, and she is quiet as part of the ritualized mourning for her lost youth. Her mother, Pama, center, serves the children a grain drink and her mother's co-wife Fatoumata Toure is at right.
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned. Here his friend (to the right of the man with the beard) who was swimming with him tells the authorities how he drowned right after the boy disappeared beneath the murky waters of the Ganges. His teacher called his parents in Kathmandu but did not tell the reason why. When his father, Bhim Prasad Bastola, arrived in Varanasi on a bus, he was told of the death of his 15-year-old son Chudamani Bastola and the cremation ceremony was held shortly thereafter.
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  • (1992) Darting Right Whales, 40 miles south of Cape Sable Island. A bow and arrow are used to ?dart??take skin samples?from right whales for population management study through DNA analysis. Some blubber samples are taken with hollow-tipped arrows. Nova Scotia, Canada. DNA Fingerprinting.
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  • German National Research Center robot scientists pose for a group portrait in the main hall of the center's Schloss Burlinghoven (administrative building of GMD). Left to Right: Bernhard Klaassen holding "Snake2", Rainer Worst, Jurgen Vollmer (with hand on KURT, a sewer inspection robot prototype), Frank Kirchner, holding "Sir Arthur" a first generation walking robot, Ina Kople, Herman Streich, and Jorg Wilburg. (Three people on right in back of robocup-playing middleweight robots and soccer ball.) Bonn, Germany
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Mendoza family and a servant in their courtyard in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, with a week's worth of food. Between Fortunato Pablo Mendoza, and Susana Pérez Matias, stand (left to right) Ignacio, Cristolina, and a family friend (standing in for daughter Marcelucia, who ran off to play). Far right: Sandra Ramos, live-in helper. The Mendoza family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 156)
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  • (1992) Chris Slay darting right whales 40 miles south of Cape Sable Island from the 38-foot boat, "Lucky 7".  A bow and arrow are used to  "dart", take skin samples from, right whales for population management study through DNA analysis. Some blubber samples are taken with hollow-tipped arrows. Nova Scotia, Canada. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Robot surgery. Surgeon (lower left) performing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) on a patient's heart using da Vinci, a remotely-controlled robot surgeon (centre right). The surgeon views a three- dimensional image of the operation site in the black box at left. The robot arms are controlled using instruments under the box. An endoscopic view of the area from the robot is seen at upper right. Another surgeon is examining chest X-rays at upper left. The da Vinci system allows precise control of surgical tools through an incision just 1cm wide, with greater control than manual MIS procedures. Da Vinci was designed by Intuitive Surgical Incorporated, based in California, USA.
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  • The Mendoza family and a servant in their courtyard in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, with a week's worth of food. Between Fortunato Pablo Mendoza, 50, and Susana Pérez Matias, 47, stand (left to right) Ignacio, 15, Cristolina, 19, and a family friend (standing in for daughter Marcelucia, 9, who ran off to play). Far right: Sandra Ramos, 11, live-in helper. Not present: Xtila, 17, and Juan, 12. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • Pama Kondo's second eldest daughter, Pai, 18, at center in pink, has just been married to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai the morning of the marriage, as is the custom, and she took part in the ritualized mourning for her lost youth but is all smiles now. Her mother, Pama is in pink, at right, and her mother's co-wife Fatoumata Toure is at right, just behind her.
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  • Namgay with his daughter Zekom, right, and his granddaughter Choeden and baby grandson Wangchuck in the kitchen of their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's house is center, top. Their neighbor (to the right) is building a new house for his family directly in front of the old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Peter Menzel and Bjorn Thoroddsen in front of a Pitts Special in Reykjavik Iceland right before they went flying.
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  • Tiffany Whitehead,(at right), a student and part-time ride supervisor at the Mall of America amusement park, goes on a routine check of the mall with a colleague in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Mall of America is the largest among some 50,000 shopping malls in the United States. In addition to a huge amusement park, it houses over 500 stores, 26 fast-food outlets, 37 specialty food stores, and 19 sit-down restaurants, and employs more than 11,000 year-round employees. In excess of 40 million people visit the mall annually, and more than half a billion have visited since it opened in 1992. Tiffany's job involves a lot of walking. Her main beat is the amusement park area, where she responds to radio calls regarding stalled rides and lost children and answers visitors' questions.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Khorloo Batsuuri (far right) and her fellow students listen to their teacher at school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • The Baintons celebrate Deb's mother's seventieth birthday. Enjoying some ice cream and pie is Deb's mother, Val, standing with her grandsons, Josh and Tadd, to her right and Deb to her left. Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Bainton family of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, England, 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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  • Jörg Melander (at right), shops at the Famila supermarket. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Melander family of Bargteheide, Germany, 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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  • The Mustapha family in their courtyard in Dar es Salaam village, Chad, with a week's worth of food. Gathered around Mustapha Abdallah Ishakh, 46 (turban), and Khadidja Baradine, 42 (orange scarf), are Abdel Kerim, 14, Amna, 12 (standing), Nafissa, 6, and Halima, 18 months. Lying on a rug are (left to right) Fatna, 3, granddaughter Amna Ishakh (standing in for Abdallah, 9, who is herding), and Rawda, 5. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • Jimi Hendrix playing his electric guitar and singing right after dawn at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on August 18, 1969.
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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from the top of the tunnel that goes through Yerba Buena. City lights of San Francisco seen on the right.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge at sunrise; view from Marin Headlands. San Francisco is in the background on right. San Francisco, California. Construction of the bridge began in January 1933 and was completed in April 1937.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho), pays for some flour he bought from a vendor in the weekly market in Simiatug (his wife, Ermalinda is by his side on the right, also with red poncho. His youngest son is on his wife's back and Alvarito, 4 is in the blue sweater eating an orange.) He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family. ((Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Dusk scene of Moscow with the Moscow River. On the left is a huge statue of Peter the Great on a sailing ship, and on the right is the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
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  • The burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait right after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. Some abandoned cattle are silhouetted by the burning oil well. They all died within a few weeks. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Madru Choudhary (right), is the chief custodian of the Harishchandra cremation ghat in Varanasi, India. He was 45 at the time the photo was taken and his family has been "in the business" for generations.
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  • Phnom Penn, Cambodia. Central market. Fried crickets on the left, with small fried chickens on the right.
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  • Pherin Pharmaceutical in Mountain View, California. Company founders left to right: Jennings, White and Louis Monti, MD, PhD. MODEL RELEASED (2002)
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson (on wave at right) surfs on the Pacific near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California.  (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Chef Dan Barber (right) with a colleague at his Blue Hills Restaurant in New York City.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ferran Adrià, (at right)  a chef at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain helps another chef prepare a meal. (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen (right) carries a seal after a day of hunting in Cap Hope Village, Greenland. (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Ironworker Jeff Devine tightens bolts on an I beam at his fiftieth floor worksite in Chicago.   (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 the month of September was 6,600 kcals. He is 39; 6'1" and 235 pounds. He carries a cooler of ready-to-eat food from home rather than eat at fastfood restaurants and vending trucks. At right: Jeff tightens the bolts on an I beam.
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  • Delayed for a day by offshore winds and cracks that threatened to push new islands of ice out to sea, seal hunter Emil Madsen (far right in black) readies his small plywood skiff on this calm, sunny day in Cap Hope village, Greenland.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Alamin Hasan (right) confronts a rival at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED..
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  • The Potala Palace (right) towers over a section of the city of Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Takeuchi Masato (inside ring, right), a professional sumo wrestler whose ring name is Miyabiyama (meaning Graceful Mountain), at practice in Nagoya, Japan, just before a tournament.  (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Part of a labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran. The grafitti on the wall on the right says "battle-axe".
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  • A traveller hires Alamin Hasan (right) to carry his luggage at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he works as a porter.  (Alamin Hasan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Airborne infrared astronomy. Alan Meyer (left) and Roger Hildebrand seen during a flight of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The screen displays show the image made by the alignment telescope (left) and the infrared telescope (right). The KAO is a converted Lockheed C-141A Starlifter aircraft, containing a 90-cm infrared telescope. Flying at up to 12,500 meters, the KAO can cruise well above most of the atmospheric water vapor,, which absorbs far-infrared radiation. The KAO also contains computerized data reduction and analysis stations. Operated by NASA, the first flight of the KAO was in January [1992] NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Infrared telescope looking at gas clouds. [1992]
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  • AeroVironment engineers (left to right) Marty Spadaro, Paul Trist Jr., Tom DeMarino, and Carlos Miralles cluster around the working prototype of the Mars glider, Otto. NASA sees an airplane as an important tool for exploring Mars early in the 21st century, and AeroVironment is seeking the honor of building the plane. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 158 top.
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  • Painted pink to give competitors a false sense of its harmlessness, Mouser Catbot 2000 has two deadly sawblades in its nose and tail and a hidden flipper on its back for overturning enemy robots. Built by Californians Fon Davis and April Mousley (left to right), the machine deftly trounced Vlad the Impaler, a larger machine with a hydraulic spike that shot from its snout  at Robot Wars, a two-day festival of mechanical destruction at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. California. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 205.
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  • The H7 robot walks without a safety harness at the Inoue-Inaba Robotics Lab. A joystick operating student, seated at right maneuvers the robot. Research Associate Satoshi Kagami (wearing a suit in the photo) walks with the robot, armed with its "kill switch" in case the robot malfunctions. Its predecessor, H6 hangs at left, near another student who is ready to step in, in the event that the robot falls. The researchers are fairly relaxed during the demonstration compared to those in other labs. University of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).Every week, the Revis family (foreground, Brandon curling weights; background, left to right, Rosemary, Tyrone, and Ron) faithfully trekked to the health club in the Wakefield Medical Center, a hospital complex in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two-hour exercise sessions. They enjoyed the workouts, but found them so time-consuming that they wound up eating more fast food than ever. Fearing its potential impact on their health, they ultimately gave up the club in favor of dining and exercising at home. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 268).
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  • Jumping for joy, Andrea Caven (second from left) works through the routines in her ballet class at the American Canyon Community Center. Parents (Regan on right, in UCSD sweatshirt) benevolently supervise from chairs along the wall. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 265).
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  • Nine-year-old Visith Khuenkaew, (at the blackboard on the right), and his fellow third grade classmates work on math problems at school near their village of Ban Muang Wa, 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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  • A woman and her children dressed in traditional Bhutanese clothes, (Woman and girl in a kira, and boy at right in a gho) which have been mandated by the country's king to be worn by all adult citizens. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Namgay and Nalim's family in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. (Some of their children, from left to right): Their grandson Chato Geltshin, and daughter Bangam (holding her younger sister Zekom). From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Especially fond of the children, Uncle Kinley Dorji (seated at right) has given up marriage to help with childcare in his sister Nalim's house. A typical task: feeding a weekend breakfast of sweet, thick rice soup to Tandin Geltshin, one of the two-year-olds. His namesake and nephew, Kinley (standing at left) observes the jumble of children from the lofty distance of his 17 years. A student at a boarding school an hour's walk away, he is home only for weekends. Namgay and Nalim's family lives in Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages76-77.
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  • In the kitchen of their apartment in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, the Manzo family: Giuseppe, 31, Piera Marretta, 30, and their sons (left to right) Mauritio, 2, Pietro, 9, and Domenico, 7 stand and sit around a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Ayme family in their kitchen house in Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, with one week's worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, and Orlando Ayme, 35, sit flanked by their children (left to right): Livia, 15, Natalie, 8, Moises, 11, Alvarito, 4, Jessica, 10, Orlando hijo (Junior, held by Ermelinda), 9 months, and Mauricio, 30 months. Not in photograph: Lucia, 5, who lives with her grandparents to help them out. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Costa grandsons, Javier (right) and Ariel, exercise daily on the roof of the family home in Havana, Cuba. Behind them are a blackboard with math homework and cages for the family's pigeons. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A "no dog pooping" sign in the town square of Bargteheide, Germany, stands right next to the 13th Century Lutheran Church in the town square. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). For this Sunday brunch outside Hamburg, Germany, Jörg Melander rode his bicycle through late-November snow to get rolls and pastries from a bakery near home. His wife Susanne has just finished an all-night nursing shift, and is making the effort to enjoy the family meal, instead of going right to bed. But the bread, cheese, and jam washed down with tea, coffee, and hot chocolate are worth it. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 19).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Dudo family in the kitchen/dining room of their home in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with one week's worth of food. Standing between Ensada Dudo and Rasim Dudo are their children (left to right): Ibrahim, Emina, and Amila. The Dudo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 46).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family in their living room in Cap Hope village, Greenland, with a week's worth of food. Standing by the TV are Emil Madsen, 40, and Erika Madsen, 26, with their children (left to right) Martin, 9, Belissa, 6, and Abraham, 12. The Madsen family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 144).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers in their living room. Left to right: Safiye Çinar, her mother Emine, and father Mehemet. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Batbileg Batsuuri (right) in his Russian class at school. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 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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  • Batbileg Batsuuri (right) battles with his reading in his Russian class at school. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 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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  • Pachinko parlors in Japan are packed and popular with the older set. Osaka, Japan. (The girl holds a sign that says: "right now all of the machines have 'no panku'," which means they have turned off the part of the machine that randomly stops you from getting balls when you've started getting them. (The point of the game is to collect more and more balls, but sometimes when you get a ball somewhere, that makes them start streaming out, there is a function of the machine which will stop them after some random amount, so you usually get fewer; they've turned that function off). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Many restaurants and markets in China hew closely to Western models, right down to the workers offering samples. Here a worker is offering samples in a faux-Mongolian outfit. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 80). This image is featured alongside the Dong family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The day after the electrifying celebration in the village, life returns to normal. Singing as they walk, Bangam (third from the right) joins other village girls in collective women's work: cleaning out the manure from the animal stalls under the houses and spreading it on the fallow fields before the men plow. All wear the traditional kira worn by all Bhutanese women: a rather complicated woven wool wrap dress. Men wear a robelike wrap called a gho. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 45).  The Namgay family living in the remote mountain village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, 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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  • The Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week's worth of food. D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, 40, holds her daughter Hawa, 2; the other children are (left to right) Acha, 12, Mariam, 5, Youssouf, 8, and Abdel Kerim, 16. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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The Biosphere 2 Project’s twenty-seven foot test module seen with star trails at night in a long exposure. The building to the right is an atmospheric chamber used to equalize the air pressure in the module. The Biosphere was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at the possibility of future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson Arizona, and is entirely self-contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water- tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life over their two-year stay in the building, producing all of their own food and supporting the whole environment in five 'biomes'; agricultural, rain forest, savannah, ocean and marsh.  1986
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Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Russian doctor Elena Yakhnina (left) and researcher Allen Haberstock (right).  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity.1990
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  • Khorloo Batsuuri uses her brother Batbileg's leg as a cushion on the sofa as she studies in the room they share with their parents Regzen Batsuuri (at right) and Oyuntsetseg Lhakamsuren (not in image). From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2001.
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  • Market day in Koukourou, Mali. Africa. Grain trader Soumana Natomo (at right in blue) opens a sack of grain at the Saturday market in his village of Kouakourou, on the banks of the Niger River, between the market town of Mopti, and Djenne. One of his two wives, Pama Kondo (in yellow) measures rice for a customer. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Rice: Dick Harter (left), organic rice farmer with Richard Skillin (right), non-organic rice farmer. Butte County, Northern California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1990.
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  • A runner, bottom right, takes an early morning run on eroded hills. Seen from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
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  • Daryl Sattui and wife Yana Albert's kitchen of their Victorian house in Calistoga, California, Napa Valley, California. Faith D'Aluisio at right. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Quixote Winery, owned and built by Carl Doumani and designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian designer. Quixote Winery, Napa Valley, CA seen below the vineyard reservoir. The Carl Doumani and Pam Hunter house on the Quixote winery vineyard reservoir is to the right, unseen.  Napa Valley, CA.
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  • The bar/lounge of NV Restaurant in Napa, California. Drinks left to right are: Tantaliziång Mandarin, Un-tie My-tie, and Rick's Perfect Pineapple.
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  • A local Ecuador photographer talks with Carol Guzy (right) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Crop dusting. Spraying orange orchards with pesticides at Cameo Ranch, Lancaster, California, USA. The helicopter is landing on a platform on top of the tanker trunk to reload. A flagger, who keeps track of the rows that have been sprayed, is at right.
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  • Ocotillo cactus near Gates Pass, Tucson, Arizona desert at sunset. Saguaro cactus is at right.
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  • Arizona. Lightning. Time exposure image of lightning strikes over Tucson, Arizona, USA..The silhouette of a giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is in the foreground at right and left. Car tail light trails are also seen in the foreground. Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Photographed in Tucson, Arizona, USA. .
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, right, with the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, right, with the Thoroddson family at home in Hafnarfjordur, near Reykjavik, Iceland. A revisit, after the family was profiled in Material World in 1993. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • At a dinner party at the Reykjavik, Iceland, home of Thordis (with plate at right), Keith Bellows yaks it up with guests. On left is Keith's wife Melina, standing is Annie Griffiths-Belt, and seated center is Linnea Cahill, Tim Cahill's wife..
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