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  • Getting to work can be frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Motorcyclists approach a busy traffic intersection on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam. Motorcycles are the most common mode of transport in Vietnam.
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  • An intersection roundabout with a traffic cop in the perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander through the city. Varanasi, India..
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  • An intersection roundabout with a traffic cop in the perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander through the city. Varanasi, India..
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  • The perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander through the city. Varanasi, India.
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  • The perpetually busy and noisy streets of Varanasi, India have all kinds of transport. Cows also wander aimlessly through the city, foraging for food and water.
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  • A Segway motorized transport rider passes between the Frank Gehry-designed BP Bridge and the trellis of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also designed by Gehry in Millennium Park, Chicago, Il. USA. And downtown cityscape.
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  • Tangled electricity cables hang over a busy street in Hanoi. Vietnam's transport and communication infrastructure is weak but the economy is expanding rapidly.
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  • A haulage truck on the trans-Kalahari highway near the Botswana border in Namibia. With no comprehensive railway networks to move cargo between countries in southern Africa, haulage trucks serve as the primary means of transport for the bulk of regional trade.
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  • Travelers at the Cairo Train Station on Ramses Square in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Commuters disembark a train at a subway station in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • A woman pays a rickshaw driver at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A woman pays a rickshaw driver at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • After a hard day of work as a bike messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, Jun Yajima (left) takes a train ride home. Physically exhausted after a long day's work, he is able to catch a nap standing up on the hour long commute. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jun Yajima, who works as a messenger at T-Serv Bike Messenger service, relaxes at his home in his tiny apartment with a beer and takeout food outside Tokyo, Japan after a long day at work. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • FRA_040619_004_x.Olivier Dumont on his new motor scooter, Paris, France..
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  • Bus and train station in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, soldier at Fort Irwin, California speaks to one of his counterparts. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet.
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  • Young boys and men sleep on a pavement outside the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Haulage trucks on the Trans-Kalahari highway near the city of Ghanzi, Botswana.
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  • Conrad Tolby walks back to his truck with dinner in a bag at a truck stop at intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois.  (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Surfer Ernie Johnson grills fish on his 38 foot sailboat moored at Dana Point Harbor in California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Munna Kailash a rickshaw driver ferries his wife, niece, and son on a shopping trip in  in Varanas, Utta Pradesh province, India,. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. India has about 10 million cycle rickshaws, including passenger and cargo pedal carts. Although Munna owns his rickshaw, most rickshaw pullers rent from fleet owners for about $0.60 (USD) per day. A typical puller in a big city earns about $4 to $5 (USD) per day. Although slower than two-cycle smoke-spewing auto-rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws don't pollute the air, and the only heat they add to the atmosphere is from the bodies of their drivers.
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  • A man takes nap in a hammock on a riverboat in Manacapuru, Brazil. Riverboats ply the network of rivers that drain the vast Amazon basin which has very few roads. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Traffic on a busy street in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • The Potala Palace (right) towers over a section of the city of Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Fishing boats in the port of Suao, Taiwan.
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  • A busy street in Shibuya District, Tokyo, Japan. Shibuya district serves as the administrative and commercial center of Tokyo.
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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, rides his motor scooter near his home on a weekend in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Like many of the thousands of call center workers in India, he relies on fast-food meals, candy bars, and coffee to sustain him through the long nights spent talking to Westerners about various technical questions and billing problems. He took a temporary detour into the call center world to pay medical and school bills but finds himself still there after two years, not knowing when or if he will return to his professional studies.
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  • Lan Guihua's son, his dog, and a woman from the city of Chengdu ride a motorcycle he bought with proceeds from farming in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Motorcyclists wait as pedestrians cross a busy street in Shanghai, China.
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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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  • A rickshaw driver waits for customers at the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Alamin Hasan 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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  • A man sleeps on a canoe on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into it from different parts of the city.
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  • Vendors sell fruits and vegetables to travellers at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into it from different parts of the city.
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  • Tourists stop for a lion to cross the road near Okaukuejo restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.
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  • A busy street near Ramses Square in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Conrad Tolby, a long-distance truck driver and ex-biker at the Flying J truck stop in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Truck driver and former biker Conrad Tolby at a truck stop at the intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Din Memon, a Chicago taxi driver in his leased taxi on Devon Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. (Din Memon is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Military vehicles and tents used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • Military vehicles with Arabic calligraphy used for training soldiers during simulated combat conditions before deploying to Iraq at Medina Jabal, an Iraqi town at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert.
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  • Ernie Johnson cycles at the dock near his 38 foot sailboat at Dana Point Harbor, California. (Ernie Johnson is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Felipe Adams, a 30-year-old Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq in his wheelchair outside his home in Inglewood, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Filipe Adams, an Iraqi war vet who was paralyzed by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad, Iraq, wheels himself down a sidewalk near his home in Los Angeles, California. (Felipe Adams is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Felipe was shot in Baghdad while serving his second tour of duty in September of 2006 and his spine was shattered leaving him unable to feel his lower body, although he is still wracked with periodic pain.
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  • The lock and dam on the upper Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where head lock and dam number 1 operator John MacQuiston works.
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  • A barge ferries a load of gravel on the upper Mississippi river in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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  • A Walmart truck on highway in coal mining country, Kentucky.
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  • Todd and Cristy Kincer entering the Millstone Methodist Church, near Whitesburg, Kentucky, where coal miner Todd Kincer works. (Todd Kincer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The pastor of the church is Todd's father, Harold Kincer, himself a retired coal miner and county employee.
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  • Icelandic cod fishermen drain water from a fish storage container on a fishing boat near the small port of Sandgerdi on the western side of Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland. Although their craft is small their large nets are mechanized. They monitor the casting then drink coffee and eat bread and fruit in the boat's galley until it's time to  haul in the bounty. They clean the fish in the belly of the ship, toss the guts, and then, after repeating this cycle many times for 8 hours, head for port.
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  • An aerial view of the city of Reykjavik, Iceland from a Pitts Special biplane.
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  • A Ganter beer sign marks Ganter Brewery's beer hall in the Muensterplatz, in the center of the old town in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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  • Vietnamese veteran Nguyen Van Thuan makes a delivery on his motorized cart in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Nguyen Van Thuan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo cycles through the rice fields near his home in Tho Quang Village, Vietnam. (Nguyen Van Theo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A disabled Vietnamese War veteran friend of Vietnamese veteran Thuan Nguyen Van drives his motorized cart in Hanoi, Vietnam. ( Thuan Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Today, as war veterans, they have special dispensation to operate motorized carts on the streets of Hanoi. They use them to haul goods from one place to another around the city.
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  • Motorcycle traffic yields to pedestrians on a busy street in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
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  • A woman paddles a raft made of discarded lightweight refuse in the Banani Lake slum district. She gathers water in plastic jugs and bottles from a public spigot on the other side of the lake to bring back to her slum home on an island in the lake.
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  • Alamin Hasan with fellow very young child porters on the platform of the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan walks on the platform 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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  • A woman sits on a rickshaw with a child on her lap outside the Central train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Rickshaw drivers tout for customers outside the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps 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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  • Alamin Hasan sleeps 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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  • Alamin Hasan pushes a trolley 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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  • Travelers crowd on top of a train at the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Travelers disembark from a ferry at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into it from different parts of the city.
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  • Travelers crowd onto ferries at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into it from different parts of the city.
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  • Travelers crowd onto ferries at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into the river.
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  • A woman walks on a busy street near the docks in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Vendors sell fruits and vegetables to travellers at the Sadarghat dock on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The river acts as both a highway and a sewer, with 80 percent of the city's raw sewage draining into it from different parts of the city.
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  • A section of the Katutura suburb in Windhoek, Namibia, near the rented house of Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds.
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  • Munna Kailash, a bicycle rickshaw driver, with his typical day's worth of food outside the small home that he and his wife Meera share with their children in Varanasi?in India's Uttar Pradesh province. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 2400 kcals. He is 45 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches; and 106 pounds. When he comes home for lunch he normally drinks a cup of tea, takes a short nap, and then heads back out into the steamy heat to find other patrons to cart from one location to the next, a job he does seven days a week.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alamin Hasan, a porter at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with his day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The bridge in Maracaibo, Venezuela to the port area, at dawn.
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  • Peter Menzel, co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, photographs truck driver Conrad Tolby at sunrise at a truckstop in Effingham, Illinois. (Conrad Tolby is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Military vehicles with Arabic calligraphy used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Medina Jabal, an Iraqi town at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Military vehicles patrol the streets of Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • A motorcyclist carries a child in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Alamin Hasan (left) confronts rival porters on the platform of 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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  • Alamin Hasan (left) 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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  • Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge photographed from Yerba Buena Island. City lights of San Francisco seen in the background. Time exposure of car lights.
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  • US department of agriculture Jonathan Saito with beagle, Joice, checking a Northwest Airlines flight from Guam for brown tree snakes. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Ermelinda Ayme buys food at the coop in Simiatug, Ecuador, which she says sells goods at  "the best prices for indigenous people." (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 110). The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats with a weeks' worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Making the long return trip to their home in Tingo, Ecuador from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109).
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  • Corn roasted over charcoal and sold by the piece near the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • GRE04.0379.xf1brw		(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Madsen family on a day of dogsled travel. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won’t break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) /// The Madsen family of Cap Hope village, Greenland is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks’ worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Emil Madsen, 40, his wife Erika, 26, and their children Abraham, 12, Martin, 9, and Belissa, 6. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 144-145 for a family portrait [Image number GRE04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks’ worth of food, and the family’s detailed food list with total cost.)
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Restaurant along the Mekong Riverside.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Restaurant along the Mekong Riverside.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos. Nam Song River toll bridge.
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  • Train station, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Ferry from Gudvagen to Flam along the Naeroyfjord, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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  • Aker Brygge, castle and harbor, seen from the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Subway trains cross an overpass over rush hour evening traffic in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Pilgrims jamming the trains in Hardiwar station. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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