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  • People throughout the Arab world show great interest in what the US calls "Operation Iraqi Freedom". In the old souk in downtown Kuwait City, men spent the afternoon hours of the first days of the war in a tea room, watching Al Jazeera Network on television, reading papers, drinking tea, and smoking tobacco..
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  • Tibetan nomads inside a handmade yak-wool tent, which serves as their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Tibetan nomads at home in their handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Brandon and Tyrone (left) watch television, "one of the downfalls," says Tyrone, "to getting exercise. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Revis family of Raleigh, North Carolina, 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Craig Caven enjoys a wrestling match with his son, while Andrea is watching cartoons on television. They are surrounded by debris from the Happy Meals they purchased at the drive-thru window of a McDonald's in Napa, California, on the way home from the weekly shopping expedition to Raley's, a California grocery chain. The high school where Craig teaches is on break this week, so the children are out of daycare and home with Dad. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • An American documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT police team show being watched by Soumana Natomo and other men and boys in the village of Kouakourou on the banks of the Niger River in Mali. There is no electricity in the village. The television is powered by a car battery that is charged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the pharmacy behind the men. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family 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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  • Control room with tourists at the Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Peter Menzel at the Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII.
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  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body at Burning Man. 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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  • Napa River Inn, Napa, California. Napa Valley. The Inn sits within the walls of the historic 1884 Napa Mill on the Napa River. The hotel is pet friendly: it allows dogs in the rooms.
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  • Seoul, Korea International Airport
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  • Family in their living room, Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, eats a late lunch while watching MTV  at his home before going to work in Bangalore, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, eats a late lunch while watching MTV at his home before going to work in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Shashi loves his mother's traditional southern Indian food at home, but when he's at work his dinner options are KFC and Beijing Bites, the fast-food restaurants on the ground floor of the high-rise where he works, located on the edge of Bangalore. Like many of his co-workers, Shashi relies on quick fast food meals, candy bars, and coffee, to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to westerners about various technical and billing problems. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kibet Serem's sister-in-law Emily dishes up pinto beans and rice as Kibet Serem's mother, Nancy, watches a Kipsigis music video. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).In the kitchen of their apartment in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, the Manzo family: Giuseppe, Piera Marretta, and their sons (left to right) Mauritio, Pietro, and Domenico, with their week's worth of food. The Manzo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 174)
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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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  • A karaoke lunch of chicken, crabs, soup, and spring rolls in Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 245).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Ukita family: Sayo Ukita, 51, and her husband, Kazuo Ukita, 53, with children Maya, 14 (holding chips) and Mio, 17; in their dining room in Kodaira City, Japan, with one week's worth of food. The Ukita family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 180).
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  • Peter Menzel at the Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Evan Menzel at the Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Displays of Manhatten Project that developed the world's first atomic bombs during WWII.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body. 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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  • Napa River Inn, Napa, California. Napa Valley. The Inn sits within the walls of the historic 1884 Napa Mill on the Napa River. The hotel is pet friendly: it allows dogs in the rooms.
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  • French family at home in Paris, France. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Watching Teletubbies TV show in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Virtual reality videogame: Jack Menzel wears a Nintendo Power Glove to interact with the fictional (or virtual) Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo characters) in the living room of his home in Napa, California. Model Released (1990)
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  • CRT (TV tube) implosion test at the Underwriters test Lab in Northbrook (Chicago) IL.
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  • CRT (TV tube) implosion test at the Underwriters test Lab in Northbrook (Chicago) IL.
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  • Kibet Serem having a lunch of pinto beans and rice here with his mother and sister-in-law. He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Inside the Moahis' family home in Kabakae Village, Ghanzi, Botswana. The family survives on food rations supplied by the government for an orphaned child.  (Marble Moahi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Momentarily suspending the wrestling match with his son, Craig tilts his head back to share a cartoon moment. They are surrounded by debris from the Happy Meals they purchased at the drive-thru window of a McDonald's in Napa, California, on the way home from the weekly shopping expedition to Raley's, a California grocery chain. The high school where Craig teaches is on break this week, so the children are out of daycare and home with Dad. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 263).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Dinner at the Costa home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Costa family of Havana, Cuba, 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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  • Watching inauguration of Barack Obama on TV at Menzel D'Aluisio home, Napa Valley, CA. January 20, 2009.
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  • Martin Yan, chef, at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts. Martin Yan gave a cooking demonstration of 'fire cracker chicken' at Copia's Meyer Food Forum cooking amphitheater. Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Barraca Bar night club, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Martin Yan, chef, at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts. Martin Yan gave a cooking demonstration of 'fire cracker chicken' at Copia's Meyer Food Forum cooking amphitheater. Napa, California. Napa Valley..
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  • Kazuo Ukita's breakfast of coffee, cigarettes and television before work. There is a vitamin commercial on the TV. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Televisions of the World page 36. Food. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • High school student Katherine Navas and her family eat dinner at their home in Caracas, Venezuela.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Dinner at Katherine's house is a family affair. Her mother is the chief cook, but everyone helps. Tonight's dinner is fresh fried fish from an uncle's shop. During meals, the television is turned off and the day's events are recounted by even the youngest.
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  • The ghoulish host for Secrets of the Crypt Keeper's Haunted House, a Saturday-morning television show for kids, is an animatronic; that is, lifelike electronic-robot. Built by AVG, of Chatsworth, California, the Crypt Keeper can show almost every human expression, although it must first be programmed to do so. Larger gestures of head and hand are created not by programming, but by electronically linking the robotic figure to an actor. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 207.
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  • A soccer match, and later a TV crime show from Los Angeles, on a black and white car-battery-powered television holds a large, rapt audience of village men outside the barber's area in Kouakourou, Mali. The car battery is recharged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the barbershop. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. Africa.
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  • Euripedes Costa watches television during a rare peaceful moment when his grandchildren are not running through the house or playing their music loudly. Marianao district of Havana, Cuba. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • Students seen inside the Napa Computer Bus. In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. The lab sessions were 45-minutes each and occurred three times within two weeks. (1984)
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  • Napa Computer Bus: In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. Seen here in rural Napa County.
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  • The ghoulish host for Secrets of the Crypt Keeper's Haunted House, a Saturday-morning television show for kids, is an animatronic; that is, lifelike electronic-robot. Built by AVG, of Chatsworth, California, the Crypt Keeper can show almost every human expression, although it must first be programmed to do so. Larger gestures of head and hand are created not by programming, but by electronically linking the robotic figure to an actor. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 206.
    USA_rs_375_qxxs.jpg
  • Buaphet Khuenkaew, 35, avoids working during the heat of the afternoon and dozes on the teak floor in front of the television that is showing one of her favorite Thai soap operas. 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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  • Buaphet Khuenkaew avoids working during the heat of the afternoon and dozes on the teak floor in front of the television that is showing one of her favorite Thai soap operas. Published in Material World, page 84. 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.
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  • Sayo Ukita asks her daughter Mio what she would like for breakfast in the kitchen/dining room. Maya continues her morning wakeup at the table as their father Kazuo Ukita enjoys his morning cigarettes while watching television before leaving for work. The house is unheated. There is an electric heater under the table, covered by a quilted blanket. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 50. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Saturday night meal at the Ukita house, always accompanied by the fifth member of the family: the television. Japan. Material World Project. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
    Japan_Jap_mw_11_xs.jpg
  • High school student Katherine Navas and her family eat dinner at their home in Caracas, Venezuela.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Dinner at Katherine's house is a family affair. Her mother is the chief cook, but everyone helps. Tonight's dinner is fresh fried fish from an uncle's shop. During meals, the television is turned off and the day's events are recounted by even the youngest.
    VEN_071102_430_xxw.jpg
  • Napa Computer Bus: In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. Seen here near an elementary school; traffic patrol guards return to campus from their traffic duty. (1984)
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  • Saturday night meal at the Ukita house, always accompanied by the fifth member of the family: the television. Japan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages, 52-53. The Ukita family lives in a 1421 square foot wooden frame house in a suburb northwest of Tokyo called Kodaira City.
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  • Video control room of (closed-circuit) televised cardiac conference in Leipzig, Germany enabling surgeons to view the latest techniques during live parallel surgical procedures which are transmitted to a nearby hotel conference center for viewing on huge screens by doctors attending the conference.
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