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  • China, Taiyuan, 2003. A farmer's bike holds the last of the day's pickings of "bai cai," or cabbage, near an abandoned railway in Taiyuan..
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  • China, Taihuai, 2003. In a spring scene that has not changed much over the years, a farmer guides a rudimentary plow through the cold soil of his fields near Wutai Shan..
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  • China, Datong, 2007. Autumn in the fertile fields south of Datong sees many seasonal activities. This farmer was threshing grain using a traditional ox-team to crush the stalks..
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  • Niger, Boubon, 2007. A farmer puts in a last half hour before the sun sets on his plot along the banks of the Niger River.
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. Summertime welcomes thousands of watermelons into Chinese homes. Farmers devote a lot of their precious irrigation resources to this popular fruit..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Fields shown empty in October, 2007 are under construction by March, 2008. Ping Fang Xiang's farmers are compensated for their land and offered cut-rates on the new development..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Shown in March, 2008, a channel carrying toxic gray water through Ping Fang Xiang village is now covered over, one of the improvements brought to residents by the government..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A German shepherd does his best to guard the open borders of a Ping Fang Xiang brick construction site..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A testament to individual drive, and the need for a consistent income, this laborer well into his sixties carts a load of mortar to bricklayers in Ping Fang Xiang.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Bricklayers work from early morning until well into the night on Ping Fang Xiang's new construction projects. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A coal brick stamping machine in Ping Fang Xiang requires a number of laborers to both feed it and remove the finished pressed form from the area..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Curiosity gets the better of this young village boy next to the coal brick yard, as he watches the action outside..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. New construction and an old graveyard contrast between Ping Fang Xiang and Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Workers demolish their temporary homes now that the Ding Fu Jia Yuan development next to Ping Fang Xiang village is complete..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A mother sits in the doorway of her home in Ping Fang Xiang. Though new housing will soon be available, they are unlikely to be able to afford even the low prices offered by the central government..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Coping with year-round construction is the unfortunate lot of these Ping Fang Xiang families close to new developments. .
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  • China, Luyashan, 2007. Early morning with a shepherd near Luyashan in Shanxi Province. Such work has remained virtually changeless over time..
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  • China, Xi'an, 2007. Everything from noodles to fresh meats can be cooked on the spot along back streets in China..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. TISCO, or Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company, glows in the setting winter sun. Complete with its own railroad, "Tai Gang" is one of Shanxi's biggest employers..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2005. Freshly-cooked chickens are available daily in Jian Cao Ping's local market, courtesy of the vendors who work here most of the day..
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  • China, Datong, 2003. Street vendors head toward busier thoroughfares as the sun sets in Datong, an industrial city in northern Shanxi Province..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. New bricks are being used on this project in Ping Fang Xiang, as demolition and recycling of old structures cannot keep up with the pace of construction here.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Beautiful if one doesn't look too closely, a waste-water channel runs blue and gray as it mixes with pollution. This waterway, shown in October, 2007 was covered over permanently by March, 2008..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Screened off for good reason, this runoff channel of toxic water in the village center is being covered over - one of the many improvements that are being made..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Children play right in the middle of one of Ping Fang Xiang's numerous construction sites. This project is utilizing recycled bricks to improve local housing..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. In this neighborhood, pollution is a serious unaddressed problem. To its credit, the government has begun to tackle the cleanup of toxic areas like this reservoir in Ping Fang Xiang. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. On the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, a coal delivery woman observes the brick stamping process..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Coal brick delivery men laugh as they jockey their three-wheelers in front of the yard on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A poor part of Ping Fang Xiang seen in the light of late afternoon. A coal brick yard works next door. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A brick delivery three-wheeler takes a break near new construction on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. North of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, a new housing community takes shape on former Ping Fang Xiang fields..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Skeletons of new houses rise behind the rubble of old businesses north of Chao Yang Bei Lu..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Slowly but surely, teams of men using little more than pickaxes and sledgehammers destroy a swath of housing to make way for new development in Ping Fang Xiang..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. An industrious metal forager strips eveything down to its essential parts in order to sell it in the Ping Fang Xiang receycling yards..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Everything has value in this carefully maintained recycling yard in Ping Fang Xiang.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Parents stream into the local kindergarten to pick up their children. China's tremendous efforts to educate its population means Ping Fang Xiang will probably get a new school..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Along Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, evidence of progress, but also of lives in transition..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Lime lines mark what is to be preserved and what is to be re-made. Much of the village's land has been sold or appropriated for development..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. New materials for temporary walls lie in the narrow strip of land between new construction and traditional housing..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. The new red buildings of Ding Fu Jia Yuan rise above Ping Fang Xiang residences still being torn down.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Alone amid demolished housing surrounding it a residence remain intact, the owner perhaps resisting offers to move elsewhere..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Temporary walls and a gravel road meant for heavy duty trucks make rough going for residents. New housing is being offered to locals for heavily discounted prices..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Power lines criss-cross the neighborhood on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. Machines idle for now, a metalworker takes in the view from his roadside shop near the outskirts of Taiyuan..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. After school is time to stay with mother at the local market. Vegetable sellers in Taiyuan are open early and stay late..
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  • China, Taihuai, 2007. A clear twilight at 3,000 ft predicts a cold night in Taihuai, high in the Wutai Shan area of Shanxi Province. Coal is still used for heating in a great majority of lower-income homes..
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  • China, Beijing, 2007. Repairmen are crucial to China's disappearing bicycle culture. An inner tube hung on a tree or a pump standing up on the street helps people find these important and frequently cheerful laborers. .
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  • China, Datong, 2007. Most small-scale demolition work is done by sledgehammer. This team is packing up at last light in the industrial city of Datong..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. A fruit seller counts his change towards the end of a long day. Sales are good during Chinese New Year as many people buy fruit for family gifts..
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  • China, Luyashan, 2007. Early springtime is sheep-shearing season. This procedure was carried in the middle of an empty country road..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company, or "Tai Gang," is Shanxi's largest employer. The main steel plant has its own railroad and dominates the area..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A bricklayer in Ping Fang Xiang breaks into a wide smile at being photographed. Despite a glut of office spaces in Beijing, the pace of new construction has brought thousands of necessary jobs to Chinese craftsmen..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Laborers demolish the brick facing of a Ping Fang Xiang runoff channel, in preparation for covering it over permanently..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Sunset will not stop these workers in Ping Fang Xiang from continuining their labor well past dark. They are rewarded for early completion of a project..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. On the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, economic progress has been slow to come to these residents..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. This coal brick stamping machine in Ping Fang Xiang can turn out hundreds of bricks per hour, provided it is fed by hand. Workers stand by to load three-wheel carts for neighborhood delivery.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. The air outside the center of Beijing's has a markedly different quality at night. Polluting coal bricks like these, made in Ping Fang Xiang, are the only way many villagers have to heat their old brick homes.  Power lines criss-cross the neighborhood on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A delivery man's hand, seen at his Ping Fang Xiang coal factory on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. On the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, bricklayers set a fuious pace on a new building..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Ping Fang Xiang has several recycling yards, where everything useable is collected and sold to resellers..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Sunset along one of Ping Fang Xiang's outlying streets, with the new development of Ding Fu Jia Yuan in the distance..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Temporary walls mark new construction sites right next door to a part of Ping Fang Xiang village, which has been slowly segmented..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Low-slung traditional brick housing is demolished by hand, while reasonably-priced new housing rises all around..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. The new red buildings of Ding Fu Jia Yuan are part of a massive building expansion within the village of Ping Fang Xiang. All of the empty fields shown here in October, 2007 were under construction by March, 2008..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A mother and child walk along a side road, newly paved, in transition.  The stream beside them is blue and gray with toxic runoff but will soon be covered.
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  • China, Gyalthang, 2007. Looking much like a Vermeer painting set in Europe, a Tibetan makes yak butter using a method unchanged for a thousand years..
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  • China, Xi'an, 2007. Sitting out the summer heat in Xi'an, an artisan creates beautiful butterflies and grasshoppers out of wet, green palm fronds..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. Water is carried in by hand to the homes of factory workers making concrete forms near Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company, one of Shanxi's biggest employers..
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  • China, Shaanxi, Huang Shan, 2007. Twice a day, porters carrying tourist supplies climb the tortuous path to the summit of Huang Shan in Shaanxi. An cable car too expensive for poor vendors to use is on the far side of the mountain..
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  • China, Beijing, 2003. Plying his noisy trade throughout the day, a veteran pot maker hammers out aluminum kitchenware in one of Beijing's fast-disappearing "hutongs," or traditional neighborhoods..
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  • China, Luyashan, 2007. Early spring is shearing time in the rolling countryside near Luyashan. Villagers tend their sheep year round and make use of almost every byproduct of their herds..
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  • China, Shaanxi, 2003. A porter on the grueling climb up to the summit of Huang Shan takes a simple lunch break in the sun..
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  • China, Dengfeng, 2003. A factory worker heads home down a virtually abandoned street. Electricity cooling towers loom over more and more towns each year as China searches for ways to generate power..
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  • China, Emei Shan, 2007. Mountain-top temple maintenance is hard work for this stonemason, working in the cold and mist that envelops Emei Mountain in summer..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. A worker looking for day work waits patiently alongside the road near Luyashan in Shanxi Province..
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  • China, Beijing, 2003. Looking much as they did during the Cultural Revolution, women actively participate in the recycling of virtually everything on Beijing streets..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2004. An important but neglected part of China?s labor force, a worker moves on carrying the tools of his trade..
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. Paper decorations welcome the New Year in a farmer's home. Doorways and entrances are considered good places for both blessings and protective messages..
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2008. Each fall close to the September full moon, a successful Shanxi farmer pays for free Chinese opera performances in this Taiyuan neighborhood.
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2008. Partners from dawn until dusk, these Juewei mountain apple farmers rotate their duties - one manages the horse and hand-plow, the other tends the trees that are their livelihood.
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  • Farmers sign a letter on Tuesday to the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) in Salinas which protests a new marketing agreement with management.
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  • BURMA (MYANMAR) Shan State, Kalaw. 2006. In a variation on slash and burn agriculture, rural farmers in the hill country surrounding Kalaw rotate their plantings every season. This burned hillside is beginning to recover.
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  • Sandra Alcala, center, reads a letter on Tuesday from Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) farmers protesting a new marketing agreement with management.  The signs say, from left,  "Fair Prices," "Yes to Justice," "No Threats," "No Intimidation" and "Support Us."
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