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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Image showing the small size of the micro- accelerometer used to trip a car 'air-bag' safety device. The micro-accelerometer is seen as the small black dot in the middle of the hand. In a collision, the micro-accelerometer detects the sudden slowing down of the car. This triggers a circuit, which rapidly inflates a plastic bag with air. The air bag deploys between the driver and the steering wheel, preventing serious facial injury as the driver is thrown forward. The air- bag inflates fully in about 0.2 seconds. Micro- accelerometers are mechanical devices made by the same processes that are used in the manufacture of conventional silicon microcircuits.
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  • David Scharf, US electron microscopist and photographer. He was educated in physics in New Jersey, and then worked at a variety of electronics and aerospace companies using conventional photography. He first used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) while at an aerospace company. Shortly after this he decided to become a photographer specializing in images of the very small. Scharf has his own SEM, linked to a computer for control and coloring of his images. He has been published in journals such as Life, National Geographic and Geo. He has published a book of his SEMs entitled Magnifications. Photographed at his home in Los Angeles, Model Released 1994.
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  • Small village near Avila, Spain.
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  • David Scharf, US electron microscopist and photographer. He was educated in physics in New Jersey, and then worked at a variety of electronics and aerospace companies using conventional photography. He first used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) while at an aerospace company. Shortly after this he decided to become a photographer specializing in images of the very small. Scharf has his own SEM, linked to a computer for control and coloring of his images. He has been published in journals such as Life, National Geographic and Geo. He has published a book of his SEMs entitled Magnifications. Photographed at his home in Los Angeles, 1994. Images on a light table in his basement lab.
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  • David Scharf, US electron microscopist and photographer. He was educated in physics in New Jersey, and then worked at a variety of electronics and aerospace companies using conventional photography. He first used a scanning electron microscope (SEM) while at an aerospace company. Shortly after this he decided to become a photographer specializing in images of the very small. Scharf has his own SEM, linked to a computer for control and coloring of his images. He has been published in journals such as Life, National Geographic and Geo. He has published a book of his SEMs entitled Magnifications. Photographed at his home in Los Angeles. Model Released. 1994.
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  • Nano Technology: Molecular bearing. Computer scientist Ralph Merkle models a molecular bearing designed on computer. Merkle is head of Computational Nanotechnology at Xerox Parc (Palo Alto Research Center) in California, USA. Using desktop simulations he builds tiny machines atom by atom, such as this frictionless bearing, which would be too small to see even with the world's most powerful microscope. Although still on the frontiers of science, nanotechnology could one day lead to a host of revolutionary miniature inventions, such as microscopic nanorobots that patrol the human body in search of cancer tumors. Model Released [1995]
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  • Nano Technology: Molecular bearing. Computer scientist Ralph Merkle models a molecular bearing designed on computer. Merkle is head of Computational Nanotechnology at Xerox Parc (Palo Alto Research Center) in California, USA. Using desktop simulations he builds tiny machines atom by atom, such as this frictionless bearing, which would be too small to see even with the world's most powerful microscope. Although still on the frontiers of science, nanotechnology could one day lead to a host of revolutionary miniature inventions, such as microscopic nanorobots that patrol the human body in search of cancer tumors. [1995]
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  • Nano /Micro Technology: Molecular bearing. Computer scientist Ralph Merkle models a molecular bearing designed on a computer. Merkle is head of Computational Nanotechnology at Xerox Parc (Palo Alto Research Center) in California, USA. Using desktop simulations he builds tiny machines atom by atom, such as this frictionless bearing, which would be too small to see even with the world's most powerful microscope. Although still on the frontiers of science, nanotechnology could one day lead to a host of revolutionary miniature inventions, such as microscopic Nan robots that patrol the human body in search of cancer tumors. Model Released [1995]
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Light micrograph of the detector 'teeth' of a micro-resonator. This is a tiny mechanical resonating structure, made by the same silicon deposition process used in the manufacture of microcircuits. The 'teeth' seen here detect the motion of the resonator, the central buff-colored object. The dark vertical lines running above and below the resonator are the strands of silicon connecting the sensor to the resonant masses. The strands are only two microns thick, but at this scale silicon has a greater mechanical strength than steel. Micro-resonators have a variety of uses in detecting very small amplitude motions. [1989]
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  • Dinner at Charles Mann and Ray Kinoshita's house in Amherst, MA
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  • Menzel and D'Aluisio house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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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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  • Poultry. Turkeys on a truck waiting to enter the slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Ft. Ross, near Timber Cove, N. Caliornia Coast
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  • Timber Cove, N. California house on rocky coast with friends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Menzel and D'Aluisio house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Lakeland, Florida
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  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • The Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time. In the port of Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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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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  • Kangaroo. Australia.
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  • Micromechanics: Motorola, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona - the design team works on MPX4100D pressure ex-ducer engine manifold p. [1990]
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics at the University of California, Berkeley. Micro fabrication Lab: Brett Warneck and Bryan Atwood (part of the Pister Group working on "smart dust".) Model Released
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  • Micro Technology: Tai Yu-Chong of U. C. Berkeley with a synchronous micromotor under a video microscope. Model Released.[1989]
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  • Micro Technology: At the University of Utah, Professor Michael Mladejovsky with an S.E.M. image of a micromotor in the background. Model Released [1990]
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  • Micromechanics: Motorola, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona - the design team works on MPX4100D pressure ex-ducer: a chip for measuring pressure in an engine manifold. Model Released [1990]
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  • Palestinian guide and driver Abdul-Baset Razem drinks coffee in his living room in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem. (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • 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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  • Tawanda Kanhema, jounalist from Zimbabwe, in Napa, CA
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  • Tawanda Kanhema, jounalist from Zimbabwe, in Napa, CA
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  • Menzel and D'Aluisio house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Menzel and D'Aluisio house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Menzel and D'Aluisio house, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Menzel compound, Napa Vallley, CA
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  • Menzel compound, Napa Vallley, CA
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  • Operation by a California veterinarian on a valued young Koi fish. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Grocery store in Redcrest, California on the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt County, California.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Monterey, California
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  • First Street East at dusk - downtown plaza of Sonoma, California.
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  • Menzel-D'Aluisio compound, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Menzel-D'Aluisio compound, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • In the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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  • Near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Park commemorating the Battle of Crysler's Farm in 1813 during the Anglo American War of 1812.
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  • Port of Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Two ships: the Vavilov and the World, a condo ship. The Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy of Science and still used occasionally by scientists, is now predominantly used for adventure touring in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The ship is currently operated by a Russian crew, and staffed with employees of the adventure touring company Quark Expeditions, and carries around 100 passengers at a time.
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  • Santuario Gauchito Gil, near Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Southermost city in the world. Legend has it that Gaucho Gil was a good-hearted outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Before his hanging, Gil is said to have pledged to become a miracle worker. Now more than 100,000 people come to visit a shrine at the spot of his death, where they leave offerings and seek miracles of their own ? from help passing a grade in school to cures for illnesses. (from NPR)
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark. Noma Restaurant. Voted number one in the world.
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  • Copenhagen, Denmark
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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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  • 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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  • Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Wat Xang Khong, 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.
    LAO_120125_124_x.jpg
  • 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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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • Thousand Buddha Caves on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos..
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula.  Kayaks launched near Pendulum Cove's thermal waters in Whaler's Bay, a protected harbor. Deception Island is the site of a circular flooded volcanic caldera. Conditions had to be perfect in order to kayak outside of the Bay, and they were. On the shore are rusting remains of Whaling operations (1911 to 1931) and the ruins of a WWII British base, Port Foster (1944-1967). Evacuated after a volcanic eruption, then closed permanently in 1969 after another eruption. Chinstrap penguins in the steam of the volcanics that are still warming the beach sand at Whaler's Bay.
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  • A single Chinstrap penguin living among Gentoos on Cuverville Island. Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds that try to eat the eggs and chicks..
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  • Pisac, Peru, seen from the Inca ruins on the hill overlooking the town in the Urubamba Valley, the Sacred Valley of Incas. Sunday market is in full swing in central plaza of the town. Wide view of town.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA..
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  • Church in Tonala, Mexico.
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  • Evan Menzel, a young American tourist, talking to taxi drivers who are taking a break. Maya ruins trip. Corozal, Belize.  Central America.
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  • Dog on a leash protects owner and her friends on a park bench in Valencia, Spain.
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  • Graveyard and church in Arnedillo, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Adult and baby black-faced sheep gaze before grazing near Ballynahinch, West Ireland (Connemara). The mama sheep is marked with paint for identification of owner.
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  • Harbor of Cherbourg, France, on the Atlantic coast.
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  • Abandoned bullets in the sand by the Jahra Road from Kuwait City to Basra, Iraq. American forces chased and trapped retreating Iraqi forces north of Kuwait City on the night of February 25 and the day of February 26, 1991. These units withdrew via the Jahra road on the way to Basra, an escape route that has become known as the "highway to hell." They were attacked by coalition aircraft and it is estimated that several thousand retreating Iraqis died..
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  • A member of the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team, mine-clearing and bomb disposal troops, points out a mine on the beach in Kuwait. 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. July 1991.
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  • 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.
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  • Foreign aid workers (NGO's) on their day off go to the beach with armed guards.  Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. (1992).
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  • A young man with a gun overlooks the old port area destroyed by fighting in the old Arab quarter in Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • An armed guard in a food warehouse. The port was looted after a firefight the night before, resulting in the deaths of dozens of people. Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Nano / Micro Technology: Eric Drexler. Portrait of US nanotechnologist and author Eric Drexler. Drexler developed the concept of nanotechnology in his books The Engines of Creation and Nanosystems. Model Released [2002]
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics at the University of California, Berkeley, Cory Hall. Display of micrographs of micro electrical manipulators at the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) lab. [2000]
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a mite (Acarimetaseiulus occidentalis) on the surface of a silicon micro-resonator 'chip'. The micro- resonator, or 'semaphore structure', is a product of micromechanics. Micro-resonators are use to make tiny vibration sensors for engineering use. The comb-like detector ends of the micro- resonators are seen here, a thin strand of silicon running from the left detector toward top left is attached to a large resonant mass. The absence of a resonant mass fixed to the right detector indicates a fault in manufacture. To give an idea of scale, the silicon strand is 2 microns thick and 2 microns wide. Reid Brennan's semaphore structure with mite. [1990]
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics at the University of California, Berkeley. In the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) lab at Cory Hall a researcher at a micromanipulator probe station testing a micro machined chip. Model Released [2000]
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: A processed silicon wafer containing hundreds of micro mechanic pressure sensors. Tweezers are being used to remove faulty sensors, labeled by an automatic test device with a black dot of ink.
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics at the University of California, Berkeley. Brett Warneck with autonomous sensing communication device built on a watch battery. Model Released. [2000]
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  • At U.C. Berkeley, graduate student Bill Tand holds a wafer with thousands of micromotors like the one he designed seen on the video and rear-screen projected behind him: a 200 micron linear resonator. Model Released [1990]
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  • Professor Richard Muller, head of the micromechanic engineering department at U.C. Berkeley, with a blow-up of a 1-millimeter linear switching element. Model Released.[1990]
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  • Ralph Hollis of IBM at Yorktown Heights, N.Y. demonstrates a tele-nanorobotic manipulation system with atomic scale force feedback. A scanning tunneling microscope that is probing the surface of gold is linked to a force-feedback "magic wrist" which moves as the microscope probe maps out the atomic structure, enabling the user to "feel" the atoms. In the background is a color image of the gold's atomic surface structure. The other two researchers who worked on the system are (Tim).S. Salcudean, and David W. Abraham. Model Released
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