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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels a 'flyer' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels a 'flyer' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses.]]
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A longhorn cow takes a break from eating grain in lot 916. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • An aerial photograph of the Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef cattle heads. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A longhorn cow takes a break from eating grain in lot 916. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • An aerial photograph of John Harris, owner of Harris Feeding Company, flying his Cessna over his Ranch in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[California's largest feed lot]] [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The desert near the landfill dump in El Paso, Texas is littered with plastic and paper blown from the dumpsite. Pollution, recycling.
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  • Man who has been drinking to excess, Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of Miguel Hidalgo by Jose Clemente Orozco in the Palacio del Gobernio stairway. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
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  • Boots and Coots prepare to attack their first oil well fire in the Rumaila Oil Field after a delay of a week due to security, sandstorms, and bureaucracy problems. They are taking a close look while shielding themselves with metal roofing pieces to block the intense heat of the fire. Rumaila is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Cyberspace hi-cycle: Carolyn Hedrich pedals an exercise bike through a virtual, computer generated landscape, projected into her eyes through two video screens in her headset. Riders are encouraged to pedal as fast as they are capable, because, on reaching a certain pedal speed, the computer creates the impression of take-off and flight. Model Released (1990)
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  • Rocket launch preparation. Technicians preparing several balloons for use in an amateur rocket launch. These helium-filled balloons will be used to lift a rocket on its launch platform to around 35,000 metres up. The rocket will then automatically launch, reaching a height of some 80 kilometers. JP Aerospace, an amateur rocketry organization, which aims to place the first amateur object in orbit, is doing this project. Photographed in the Black Rock desert, Nevada, USA.
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  • Some of the bread produced by the bakery where the Bread Queen works: Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner in Cologne, Germany. (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets)
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  • An elderly man with a prayer wheel and prayer beads at a small monastery near the Jokhang, Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A view of the mustard fields in bloom in the Dingha Valley on the Tibetan Plateau.
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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 Old City of Jerusalem and Jewish Cemetery seen from the Mount of Olives, Israel. The church at the center is the Russian church of Mary Magdalene.
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  • Rickshaw driver Munna Kailash's wife Meera prepares lunch for her husband in their courtyard in Varanasi, India.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A factory worker carries a stack of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Young boys and men sleep on a pavement outside the Central Train Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, in the kitchen of her rented house after a busy day at the factory. (Mestilde Shigwedha was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Crowds gather to listen to President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, during a  demonstration in favor of proposed constitutional reforms giving him more power in Caracas, Venezuela in November 2007.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez, Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.  Seen in various places with other workers. Model Released..
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  • Girls and two men play volleyball in the 12 de Octubre barrio in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Meat grilling on skewers at Mercado Quinta Crespo, Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • Bottles of honey for sale at Mercado Quinta Crespo, Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • A monkey scratches its head on the banks of the Solimoes River in Mancapuru, Brazil
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  • Vendors sell fish at a market in Mancapuru, Brazil.
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  • A biodiesel pump at a truck stop at the intersection of I-70 and I-57 in Effingham, Illinois.
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  • The Cross at the Crossroads in Effingham, Illinois. A 198 foot tall cross at the intersection of Highways 57 and 70.
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  • A typical Mexican dish of tacos and guacamole is served at Lourdes Alvarez's Mexican Restaurant El Coyote in Alsip, Chicago, Illinois.  (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Lourdes Alvarez prepares tacos at her Mexican Restaurant, El Coyote, in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago.  (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lourdes Alvarez, a restaurant owner, at her Mexican restaurant El Coyote in the suburb of Alsip, Chicago Illinois. (Lourdes Alvarez is featured in the book What I Eat;  Around the World in 80 Diets.)   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ironworker Jeff Devine at work at a construction site on 300 East Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois. (Jeff Devine is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ironworker Jeff Devine tightens bolts on an I beam at his fiftieth floor worksite in Chicago, Illinois, on highrise at 300 East Randolph St. (Jeff Devine is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The highrise at 300 East Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois, where ironworker Jeff Devine works. (Jeff Devine is featured in the book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • One of the actors in crisis simulations at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town at Camp Irwin in California.
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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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  • 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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  • Ricki the Chimp eats yogurt during a break in a shooting session on what he eats in one day at the Bailiwick Ranch and Discovery Zoo in Catskill, NY. (Ricky the chimp is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is owned by circus folk Pam Rosaire-Zoppe and Roger Zoppe.
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  • Ground meat is processed into hamburger patties and other finished products at the Rochester Meat Company, where meat grinder Kelvin Lester works, in Rochester, Minnesota. (Kelvin Lester is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Disabled due to his 500 pound weight and diabetes, Rick is dieting to reduce his weight by 100 pounds so that he can get gastric bypass surgery to lose another 200 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs barbed wire fences at his ranch in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a Pima farmer, milking a cow in a corral adjacent to his house in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. Milking is a chore that rotates among extended family members.   (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ferran Adrià, a chef at the famous El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in Northern Spain, eats with staff in the kitchen of the restaurant.   (Ferran Adrià is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ferran Adrià, chef of El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava in northern Spain, speaks to a colleague in the kitchen area of the restaurant.   (Ferran Adria is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A chef cooks with liquid nitrogen at El Bulli restaurant near Rosas on the Costa Brava, northern Spain on the Mediterranean.
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  • A Nestle poster displayed in a parking lot in the town of Pals, Costa Brava, Spain. Pals is a medieval town in Catalonia a few kilometers from the sea in the heart of the Bay of Emporda on the Costa Brava.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares teases a bull during the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (OscarHigares is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After a dozen more passes, he kills the bull on his first attempt, eliciting a standing ovation from the crowd, which awards him the bull's ears and tail. Oscar and the bull spend just under 15 minutes together in the ring (an anxious period in which Oscar must control not only the objective dangers, but also his fear).  Each bullfight ends with the killing of the bull by the matador (bullfighter).MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares guides his second bull of the day as it charges past his body at full speed at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (Oscar Higares is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After a dozen more passes, he kills the bull on his first attempt, eliciting a standing ovation from the crowd, which awards him the bull's ears and tail. Oscar and the bull spend just under 15 minutes together in the ring (an anxious period in which Oscar must control not only the objective dangers, but also his fear).   Each bullfight ends with the killing of the bull by the matador (bullfighter).  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares practices in a Madrid park before doing a photo-shoot of his food portrait in Miraflores, Spain.  (Oscar Higares is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The interior of the San Marcello al Corso Church in Rome, Italy, where Riccardo Casagrande, monk brother priest leads a morning mass.   (Riccardo Casagrande is featured in the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Casagrande is in charge of the kitchen, garden, and wine cellar for the brotherhood.
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  • The Bread Queen, Robina Weiser-Linnartz , at her parent's bakery in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Her mother is hanging out the windows as part of a once a year cleaning of the windows on the outside and the building.
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  • Professional bullfighter Oscar Higares guides his second bull of the day as it charges past his body at full speed at the annual village festival of San Juan in Campos del Rio, near Murcia in southern Spain.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Himba boy finishes cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • A Himba woman prepares a meal of cornmeal porridge in a vacant lot in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  They had come  to Opuwo from Angola to get medical care for a family member who fell out of a tree and broke his arm.
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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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  • A girl leans on a qat tree in a qat orchard near the city of Sanaa, Yemen. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Qat sellers make transactions and count money from their day's sales at a qat market near Rock Palace, near Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • A man milks a goat in a backyard in the town of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • Traditional knife seller Bashir Sabana pours himself a glass of tea while smoking a cigarette at his home in Sanaa, Yemen.   (Bashir Sabana is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A traditional dagger seller sews a belt used for fastening the jambiya around the waist at his market stall in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Fresh leaves of the much sought after qat at a house in Sanaa, Yemen. The men in the background were gathered for a Thursday afternoon qat chewing session.   Qat chewing is a favorite pastime among many Yemenis.
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  • A man chews qat at an afternoon qat chewing session at Karim's house in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Qat chewing is a popular diversion for many Yemenis.
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  • A boy with a bag of qat leaves from  street vendors in Sanaa, Yemen in the old city souk. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • The daughter-in-law of rice farmer Nguyen Van Theo cooks lunch at their shared homestead in Tho Quang village, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Nguyen Van Theo and his family still eat traditional Vietnamese foods.
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  • Nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife Phurba in the kitchen of their home in the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Artists paint Buddhist mandala paintings in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Some of Taiwan's finest seafood delicacies are displayed at a neighborhood street market in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Jun Yajima, a bike Messenger, powers down a busy street in the Shibuya Ward (district) of Tokyo, Japan. (Jun Yajima is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Professional sumo wrestler Takeuchi Masato (ring name Miyabiyama- Graceful Mountain), practicing for a tournament in Nagoya, Japan.  (Takeuchi Masato is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi, a Reform rabbi at his home in Tzur Hadassah 15 minutes southwest of Jerusalem, Israel. (Ofer Sabath Beit-Halachmi is featured in 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 October was 3100 Kcals. He is 43 years of age; 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 165 pounds. Ofer's town, located in the Judean Hills, is a communal settlement where residents lease land and houses from the state of Israel for a 99-year period. On Friday evenings Ofer leads the Shabbat service in a small portable building that is kindergarten by day and synagogue at night and on weekends. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed at the Zayandeh River bridges in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • A man operates a henna mill in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Millie Mitra, an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, holds a glass of urine that she drinks everyday. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Mitra has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Widowed farmer Lan Guihua enjoys lunch at a small restaurant in a market town near Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, trains with an instructor in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • A vendor waits for customers at the Santinagar Market in   Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Ruma Akhter (far right with folded arms in blue sari) lives with her family of six in a rented 10-foot-by-10-foot square room in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where they share a communal kitchen and latrines with 8 other families. (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A vendor sells fish at the sprawling Sonargaon market in Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A boy prepares to carry his next load of bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Factory workers carry bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • A child receives a token for carrying bricks at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • Workers mold bricks at JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns. After being fired, the bricks turn red. A foreman keeps tally, handing the workers colored plastic tokens corresponding to the number of bricks they carry past him. They cash in the chips at the end of each shift, taking home the equivalent of $2 to $4 (USD) a day.
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  • The children of one of Shahnaz Hossain Begum's neighbors at their home in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh.   (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)   Shahnaz got her first micro loan several years ago, from BRAC, Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, to buy cows to produce milk for sale. She repaid her initial loan and has since gotten new ones over the years along with thousands of her fellow Bangladeshis. This mother of four was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home. She and her tenants share a companionable outdoor cooking space and all largely cook traditional Bangladeshi foods such as dahl, ruti (also spelled roti), and vegetable curries. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income.
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  • A young porter Alamin Hasan, smokes a cigarette at the Kamlapur train station in Dhaka, where he earns a living by offering to carry passengers' bags.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Himba woman carries an ehoro (traditional wooden bucket) filled with milk after milking cows in a corral in the village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk. During the rainy season there is plenty of grass for the animals to eat but the mud and manure of the corral are problematic.
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  • A Himba boy with his mouth covered with cornmeal porridge in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia , sits inside her home with her child. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shopping with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend..
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