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  • At the cocktail hour, a naked woman rubs fire on her body as another woman dressed in long white outfit walks around with an empty glass and a camera 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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  • 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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  • A woman sits on a rickshaw with a child on her lap outside the Central train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A woman sells chickens at a market in the slums near the main train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Nearly 20 percent of Dhaka's more than seven million residents live in the slums.
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  • A woman walks on a busy street near the docks in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • A Maasai woman at a weekly market in Oldorko Maasai village,  several hours from Narok, Kenya. The jewelery worn by the Maasai is symbolic through its colors and patterns.
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  • A woman sells wursts at a stand in the central square at  Munsterplatz in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba woman who lives in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia, sits in her hut with her son. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Woman on a horse at the April Fair, Seville, Spain.
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  • A woman visiting the openhouse at 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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  • A Mohawk hair styled woman applies black lipstick to a friend 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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  • A man watches his girlfriend making it with another woman as the Burning Man burns. 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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  • A woman dances at dawn on the prow of the art installation "HMS Love", a sinking art ship in the desert. It is one of many art installations 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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  • Mural of a woman watering plants, with a bird sitting on the hose.  Downtown Palo Alto, California. USA.
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  • A woman in a white top hat picks lima beans near Cuzco, Peru.
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  • A young woman war games paintball combatant at Sad Sack's Paintball Park, near Los Angeles, California, USA. Her T-shirt reads: "Join the Marines. Travel to exotic distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people. And kill them." MODEL RELEASED.
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  • An elderly woman visits the site where she grew up in Nags Head Woods, North Carolina. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman soldier in the May 1 Worker's Day parade in the Zocolo. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Woman selling shrimp at the Mercado de Abastos Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Woman walking under a strip club billboard in Madrid, Spain.
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  • Woman on a horse at the April Fair, Seville, Spain.
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  • Large elderly woman sunbathes on the rocky beach, Amalfi Coast, Italy.
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  • A man and a woman carrying brightly colored umbrellas walk down a tree-lined path. Chenonceaux, France.
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  • A lone woman in black chador (tent) walks along one of the labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • A woman in front of the sacred Jain site of Sravanbelgola, 93km north of Mysore, consists of two hills and a large Tank. On one of the hills, Indragiri (also known as Vindhyagiri), stands an extraordinary eighteen meter high monolithic statue of a naked  male figure, Gomateshvara, which is the largest freestanding sculpture in India. The name of the other hill is Chandragiri, marking the arrival of Jainism in southern India..
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  • Woman smokes a pipe at the Menghan Sunday market, Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • A smiling woman in a pink shirt picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • A de-mining crew helping a woman whose cow had stepped on a landmine. The injured cow was dragged to a "safe" path, but had to be slaughtered.  Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war.
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  • A 50 year old Somalian woman being examined in Hargeisa, Somaliland, by Dr. Chris Giannou of the International Committee of the Red Cross, after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. 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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  • A 50 year old Somalian woman waiting to be fitted for a prosthesis in Hargeisa, Somaliland after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. 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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  • A woman carrying her listless child in a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, Somalia, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A woman at a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • "Pregnant Woman," a piece from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits. Body Worlds is a traveling exhibit of real, plastinated human bodies and body parts. Von Hagens invented plastination as a way to preserve body tissue and is the creator of the Body Worlds exhibits..
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  • A woman sells fish and other seafood delicacies at the Central Market in Latvia's capital, Riga. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Established in 1201, Riga is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Art restorer  Vyacheslav ?Slava? Grankovskiy (center)  enjoys supper with his family in their house, near on Lake Ladoga, in Shlisselburg, near St. Petersburg, Russia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of October was 3900 kcals. He is 53; 6a feet two inches and 184 pounds. The son of a Soviet-era collective farm leader, he was raised near the Black Sea and originally worked as an artist and engineer. Over the years, he's learned a few dozen crafts, which eventually enabled him to restore a vast number of objects, build his own house, and be his own boss. His travel adventures have included crossing the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, where he spent time with a blind hermit and dined with a Mongol woman who hunted bears and treated him to groundhog soup. His favorite drink: Cognac. Does he ever drink soda? ?No, I use cola in restoration to remove rust, not to drink,? he says.
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • Woman cleans a room in a grammar school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This is the school that Regzen Batsuuri's son Batbileg attends. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Portrait of young Palestinian woman in Dubai, United Arab Emirates..
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  • Indian woman weaving with a backstrap loom in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari listens to a woman in traditional dress while waiting to speak during a Presidential trip to the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • A young woman wearing traditional Mayan clothing, waiting for president Salinas to arrive in Kopoma, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • An elegant-looking young woman rides in a gondola during Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A gray haired woman airs bedding by hanging it out of a window in Weilheim, Bavaria, Germany.
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  • Punky young woman with her pet rat. Lyon, France.
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  • Tombstone with a woman's picture in a graveyard near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • A young woman guide at the Tsukuba, Japan science and technology expo.
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  • A woman scrapes a sheepskin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village. She will use the sheepskin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt. Her village is near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran.
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  • A lone woman in chador ('tent') walks in the old city, Yazd, Iran.
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  • A 50 year old Somalian woman waiting to be fitted for a prosthesis in Hargeisa, Somaliland after losing her leg to a landmine while herding her cattle. 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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  • A woman at a refugee camp near Merca, 100 km. south of Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A woman hangs her laundry out to dry on a barbed wire  fence near the home of José Angel Galaviz, a rancher of Pima heritage who lives 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.)
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  • A woman scrapes a sheep's skin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. She will use the sheep skin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman adjusts  the wedding gown of a bride at a ceremony in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman leans over the top of the Berlin Wall. Germany. In the spring of 1990, the Berlin Wall was a tourist destination before it was completely dismantled. People used hammers and chisels to take pieces for souvenirs. Germany.
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  • A young woman nude sunbathing on the rocky Mediterranean beach at Fabregas, France.
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  • The disfigured hand of a Dani woman. In Dani culture, the fingers of women are severed from the first knuckle at an early age as a tribute to family members who have died. Amuloke: "My older sister died and my mother cut them (my fingers) off when I was five years old with a sharp stone axe, all of them at once. Now I feel a bit angry with my mother because she cut them. When I see the other fingers complete, I feel bad about it. The cut fingers aren't good for holding. They don't work very well." Soroba, Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 82)
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  • Pilar Sanchez giving a cooking demonstration (lobster soufle) at her restaurant called Pilar in downtown Napa, California. Napa Valley.
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  • Shot for a New Age story written by Bernard Zekri for Actuel Magazine. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. .MODEL RELEASED.
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  • USC fighter for General Aidid with his girlfriend and a watermelon in Mogadishu, war-torn capital of Somalia. March 1992.
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  • California. Central Valley, California near Fresno, salt deposits resulting from over-irrigated farmland. MODEL RELEASED. 1980.
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  • Jill McTighe, a mother and school aide, sits on a couch at her home in Willesden, London, United Kingdom. (Jill McTighe 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 "bingeing" day in the month of September was 12300 kcals. The calorie total is not a daily caloric average.  Jill is 31 years old; 5 feet, 5 inches tall;  and 230 pounds. Honest about her food addiction replacing a drug habit, Jill joked about being a chocoholic as she enthusiastically downed a piece of chocolate cake at the end of the photo session. Her weight has yo-yoed over the years and at the time of the picture she was near her heaviest; walking her children to school every day was the sole reason she didn't weigh more. She says this photo experience was a catalyst for beginning a healthier diet for herself and her family.  MODEL RELEASED.  [Use of Jill McTighe images must be used contextually only and use cleared with Peter Menzel Photography on a case by case basis.]
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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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  • Roseline Amondi (right), a microloan recipient and mother of four, fries tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets in front of the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, during a December snow storm. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets surrounded by camels at the  Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. Contrary to popular belief, camels’ humps don’t store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets with fisherman João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva at his floating house on a branch of the Solimoes River near Manacapuru, Brazil. (João Agostinho Cardoso da Silva is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Photo was taken after the food portrait. MODEL RELEASED.  PJM
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  • The Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany at the city garden small house that they rent. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm,  and son, Malte Erik at the stove. Preparing white asparagus for supper. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. At supper, Astrid Hollmann, 38, and Michael Strum, 38, and their three children Lenard, 12, Malte Erik, 10, and Lillith, 2.5 Model Released.
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  • The Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany at the city garden small house that they rent. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany preparing salad dressing for supper in her kitchen. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food. At supper, Astrid Hollmann, 38, and Michael Strum, 38, and their three children Lenard, 12, Malte Erik, 10, and Lillith, 2.5 Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, who fell off her bike in front of their apartment. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight, fixes one of her daughters' hair outside her adobe house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs or stove, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Riverboat passengers relax in a web of hammocks on the Solimoes River upstream from Manacapuru, Brazil.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy eats dinner with his family in the kitchen of their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Art restorer Vyacheslav Grankovskiy at the kitchen table with his family at their home in Schlisselburg, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. (Vyacheslav Grankovskiy is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aivars  Radzins, a forester and beekeeper, with his wife at their home in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (Aivars Radzins is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The Bread Queen Robina Weiser-Linnartz, a master baker and confectioner, cooking at her home in Cologne, Germany.  (Robina Weiser-Linnartz is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food in March was 3700 kcals. She is 28 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches and 144 pounds. At the age of three, she started her career in her father's bakery, helping her parents with simple chores like sorting nuts. Her career plan is to return to this bakery, which has been in the family for four generations, in a few years. She will remodel the old premises slightly to allow customers the opportunity to watch the baking process, but plans to keep the old traditions of her forebears alive.   MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, award-winning authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at the Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. (From 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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  • Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, eats breakfast at his home in Bangalore, India. (Shashi Kanth 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 on a day in December was 3000 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds. 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, oversees the cooking of lunch for 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.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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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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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua 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.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, cooks at her home in the small village of Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a microloan recipient and mother of four, prepares tilapia for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.   (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi (right) a mother of four and microloan recipient speaks to  a friend outside her small restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. (Roseline Amondi is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kibet Serems' grandmother who lives near their farm by herself in a small house.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibet, who is 25 years old, 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. 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. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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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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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at Khan al-Khalili souq (market) in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Customers use their laptops for email and talk on cellphones at Cilantro, a coffee and internet shop in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside the house at her father's village with her youngest son and her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Model Released.
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  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia with her day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roseline Amondi, a mother of four and microloan recipient with her day's worth of food outside her restaurant in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, a farmer and mother of eight with her typical day's worth of food in her adobe kitchen house in Tingo village, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of September was 3800 kcals. She is 37 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 119 pounds. With no tables or chairs, Ermelinda cooks all the family's meals while kneeling over the hearth on the earthen floor, tending an open fire of sticks and straw. Guinea pigs that skitter about looking for scraps or spilled grain will eventually end up on the fire themselves when the family eats them for a holiday treat. Because there is no chimney, the beams and thatch roof are blackened by smoke. Unvented smoke from cooking fires accounts for a high level of respiratory disease and, in one study in rural Ecuador, was accountable for half of infant mortality.  MODEL RELEASED.
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