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July 7, 2007 - London, England, U.K. - Tour de France fans from around the world gather in Trafalgar Square to give the cyclists a stylish send-off. Even the Devil, Didi Senfit from Germany, drops by to cheer on the world’s greatest cyclists as the race kicks off in London.
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Picture by Edward Linsmier/ZUMA June 28, 2007 - Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S. - A 27-year-old male prisoner at Warren County Jail visits with his four children as he waits to serve a 24-year federal prison sentence for manufacturing crystal meth, a highly addictive, illegal manmade stimulant. Methamphetamine poses a major drug threat to Warren County. It also poses a threat to families, as children who live in homes where methamphetamine is manufactured are at risk due to exposure to toxic fumes, chemicals and highly explosive gases.
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Guatemalas Silent Killer According to a USAID report, Guatemala continues to have the highest rate of chronic malnutrition (49% nationally) in this hemisphere, higher than many countries in Africa. The United Nations reports that 23% of Guatemalan children under age 5 are underweight, and one in two children under age 5 are stunted. Although it is not the poorest country in the region, Guatemala is the sixth hungriest nation in the world. A multiyear drought, combined with a collapse in the worldwide coffee market several years ago, which was a major agricultural employer, and a steep rise in the cost of corn is causing an increasing food crisis, particularly for children, who are always more vulnerable to illness and disease. The worst cases are in the eastern regions, where many indigenous Mayans live secluded in small, mountainous villages. Although some relief agencies are venturing into the hills to deliver desperately needed food, thousands remain hungry. There is one sector near Zacapa where doctors say at least 15 children are near death and 1,000 children could be equally bad within a few months. Another report from the World Food Program states that in the eastern part of the country nearly 60,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, with 6,000 close to death. (continued on page 11)
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Subsistence-farming practices that are at the mercy of the weather and a lack of land ownership among the poor are important factors in the food security crisis, however there is an ethnic component that compounds these problems. Guatemala has the highest percentage of indigenous people of any country in Central America, with 24 distinct Mayan ethno-linguistic groups, many of which do not speak Spanish or each other’s dialects. While it is often lauded that the Mayans have retained so much of their culture by maintaining a
distance from nonindigenous society, that distance keeps them from reaching out for help or even knowing that the help is available when their children become gravely ill related to malnutrition. It should also be noted that when the Mayans do venture into the towns and cities of nonindigenous society, they are often looked down upon and treated as unwelcome. This crisis demonstrates that the power and wealth in Guatemalan society still rests with the Hispanic majority, as it has since Europeans first arrived.
The United Nations reports that 23% of Guatemalan children under age 5 are underweight and one in two children under age 5 are stunted.
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Picture by Chris Matula/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Mar. 20, 2007 - Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. - Wellington High School warms up as they prepare to play in the Gary Carter National Grand Slam tournament. The game is at West Boca Raton High School, which has a modern lighting setup.
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Picture by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleon’s Eye/zReportage.com Mar. 20, 2007 - Sderot, Israel - The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) run through a mass-casualty scenario for a Kassam rocket attack in a schoolyard. For the past six years, the small border town of Sderot has borne the impact of Kassam rocket attacks from Beit Hanoun, a Palestinian Authority-controlled town across the Gaza border. This is the IDF’s largest civil defense exercise. Thousands of police officers and soldiers collaborate with security forces and emergency crews in response to simulated attacks on seven different locations, including a chemical attack on a school and a rocket strike on a Tel Aviv power station.
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Picture by Chang Liang/ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA Mar. 27, 2007 - Zhengzhou, Henan, China - Students stand among sand sculptures during a demonstration in Zhongyuan University of Technology. More than 3,000 students participate in the event, which is aimed at arousing interest in farmers.
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Picture by Andrew Wallace/Toronto Star/ZUMA Apr. 2, 2007 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - A form-fitting mask holds patient Ross Harrison in precise position during each post surgical radiation treatment he receives at Princess Margaret Hospital.
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Twenty-Four Hours and Counting...
Picture by Mark Murrmann/ZUMA
Apr. 17, 2007 - Blacksburg,Virginia, U.S. - Virginia Tech students, faculty and staff mourn during a candlelight vigil on campus 24 hours after student Cho Seung-Hui gunned down 32 people and then took his own life. The Virginia Tech massacre was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Cho, a native of South Korea, lived in the U.S. since 1992 and graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly,Virginia.
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Sister City
Picture by Seung-Chul Baik
Apr. 17, 2007 - Seoul, Korea - Over 1,000 citizens gather in downtown Seoul during a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting. On Apr. 16, 2007, Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech English major from South Korea, killed 31 people in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
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Forty-Eight Hours Later...
Picture by Rick Madonik/Toronto Star/ZUMA
Apr. 18, 2007 - Blacksburg,Virginia, U.S. - A man quietly surveys the many signboards that have been erected on the drill field in memory of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.
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A Country Shamed
Picture by Seung-Chul Baik
Apr. 19, 2007 - Seoul, Korea - A Seoul citizen prays in front of an altar set up for the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting. South Korea native Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech senior, killed 31 people during a shooting rampage on the Virginia Tech campus on Apr. 16, 2007.
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Hanging On
Picture by Javier Cobollado/EFE/ZUMA
Apr. 19, 2007 - Zaragoza, Spain - Troupe members of la Fura dels Baus hang from cables during a presentation of their new spectacle, San Jorge: El Viaje de las Culturas.
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Saluting the New Wonder
Picture by Gregg Newton/ZUMA
Apr. 19, 2007 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - U.S. pilot Mike Mangold flies past the statue of Christ the Redeemer, located atop the 710-meter (2,330 feet) Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca Forest.The 38-meter statue (125 feet) was originally inaugurated in 1931. Christ the Redeemer is a leader in voting for the world’s seven new wonders, which be named on July 7, 2007, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Gaza School Rocked by Terrorist
Picture by Fady Adwan/ZUMA
Apr. 21, 2007 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinians investigate the damage at the American International School in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Masked gunmen stormed the private school earlier today and detonated a series of bombs inside, causing serious damage, witnesses and security sources said.
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Darfur’s Proud Defenders
Picture by Carsten Stormer/TCS/zReportage.com
Apr. 23, 2007 - Darfur, Sudan - Survivors in Darfur carry on with some protection from the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). The SLA spends exhausting days in the desert defending the “pride of black Darfur,” avenging family and friends who have died and suffered in ethnic-cleansing operations by the Janjaweed, the Arab militia.The Janjaweed is the only armed opposition to the SLA.
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Excalibur Found
Picture by Arne Hodalic/eyevine/ZUMA
Apr. 23, 2007 - Ljubljanica River, Slovenia - A diver reenacts the discovery of the sword Excalibur from Sir Thomas Malory’s (1400-1470) Le Morte d’Arthur. In this photograph, the diver is holding an authentic sword from the 13th century AD.
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Millions and Millions
Picture by Kursad Bayhan/ZUMA
May 1, 2007 - Nyala, South Darfur, Sudan - A Darfur refugee returns to his tent after receiving two apples from the Norway Red Cross Human Aid Service in Otash Camp. For over three years, the conflict in Darfur has torn apart the lives of almost 3 million people, mostly women and children. More than 200,000 people have been killed. Women and girls face the danger of being attacked and raped while performing daily acts of survival, such as gathering firewood. More than 1 million people have been internally displaced in Darfur by ethnic and political conflict in the region.
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Naked in Mexico
Picture by David de la Paz/EFE/ZUMA
May 6, 2007 - Mexico City, Mexico - Thousands of nude men and women gather at the Z贸calo to pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick, who is famous for photographing crowds of nude people around the world.
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Call for Monsieur Sarkozy, Monsieur...
Picture by Delphine Goldsztejn/Maxppp/ZUMA
May 6, 2007 - Paris, France - France’s new president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, calls for unity after a bitterly contested campaign. The conservative won a clear victory over his Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal, gaining 53% of the vote with a massive 85% turnout.
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Graduation Day
Picture by Fady Adwan/ZUMA
May 7, 2007 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Palestinian security forces demonstrate their skills at a graduation ceremony after completing their training in Gaza.
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Twilight Tattoo
Picture by Kate Karwan Burgess/ZUMA
May 9, 2007 - Arlington, Virginia, U.S. - Soldiers from the Old Guard march off to their buses to return to Fort Myer after participating in Twilight Tattoo with the U.S. Army Band in Washington, DC. The annual show has members from the U.S. Army Drill Team perform and over 100 Old Guard soldiers reenact Army history in period uniforms.
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Triangle of Death
Picture by Sean Smith/Guardian/eyevine/ZUMA
May 6, 2007 - Youssifiyah, Iraq - American soldiers from Alpha Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division out of Fort Drum, New York, perform a sweep with the Iraqi army near the so-called Triangle of Death.They are searching for three soldiers who are presumed captured by Sunni Arab insurgents after a weekend ambush of seven American soldiers south of Baghdad.
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Girl on a Swing
Picture by Chen Nan/Imaginechina/ZUMA
May 9, 2007 - Harbin, Heilongjiang, China - A Chinese girl swings from the top of the Heilongjiang Television and Radio Broadcast Center, 210 meters above the ground.
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Doctor Burn
Picture by Richard Sennott/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA
May 9, 2007 - Gunflint Trail, Minnesota, U.S. - A U.S. Forest Service helicopter flies along a ridgeline on the north shore of Gunflint Lake during a prescribed burn aimed at protecting the Gunflint Lodge area from the rapidly spreading Ham Lake fire.
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Wedgie
Picture by Edward A. Ornelas/San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA
May 11, 2007 - San Antonio, Texas, U.S. - Emergency personnel work to free the driver of a vehicle that became wedged between the IH-35 and IH-37 interchange.
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It is Just a Game...Right?
Picture by Thomas Cordy/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA
May 16, 2007 - Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S. - Tony Faso, a firefighter and paramedic with the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue team, fights off opposing players at a paintball competition as part of the Florida State Firefighter Games.
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One Last Look into Hell
Picture by Dan Chung/Guardian/eyevine/ZUMA
May 19, 2007 - Baghdad, Iraq - U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair makes a final visit to Iraq, a country whose future may define the legacy of his decade in power. Blair’s decision to join U.S. President George W. Bush and send British troops into Iraq in 2003 despite huge opposition at home was perhaps the defining moment of his rule. On May 10, 2007, Blair announced his intention to resign as Labour Party leader June 27, 2007. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will replace Blair as prime minister.
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The Hot Seat
Picture by Mark Murrmann/ZUMA
May 23, 2007 - Washington, DC, U.S. - The Justice Department’s former White House liaison, Monica Goodling, prepares to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about her role in the firing of U.S. attorneys in late 2006 and early 2007.
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Monk Fire Brigade
Picture by Matt Mai/Color China/ZUMA
May 15, 2007 - Jiuhua Mountain, China - Monk firefighters put out a fire during a training session. Founded in 1988, the Jiuhua Mountain monk fire brigade now has 40 members, including 38 monks and two nuns selected from temples on Jiuhua Mountain. In an effort to teach basic firefighting skills, local fire departments have organized training classes for the monk fire brigade since Apr. 24, 2007.
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Icelandic Windfall or Eco Disaster?
Picture by Floris Leeuwenberg/TCS/zReportage.com
May 27, 2007 - Kárahnjúkar, Iceland - An activist protests the building of a billion-dollar dam at Kárahnjúkar in the eastern highlands of Iceland. The dam, which has been completed now and cost more than $2.2 billion, was built to provide energy for the American company Alcoa’s aluminum smelter. Critics argue that the dam devastated eastern Iceland’s magnificent glacier landscape and claim it’s an environmental disaster and the first step to a polluted industrialized future, while supporters claim it will bring investment and jobs to the region. Various planned smelters worldwide would be powered by constructing new megadams that would flood large areas of unique wilderness.
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Kevorkian Born Again
Picture by Jim West/ZUMA
June 5, 2007 - Southfield, Michigan, U.S. - At a press conference a few days after his release from prison, Dr. Jack Kevorkian announces that his new mission is to educate and inform the masses about their rights as citizens. He insists on the need for laws that allow mentally competent people to end their lives with the assistance of a doctor. Kevorkian served eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder after helping a patient commit suicide. The doctor claims to have helped at least 130 others.
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Go Green
Picture by Graeme Robertson/Guardian/eyevine/ZUMA
June 7, 2007 - Heiligendamm, Germany - G8 protesters on the way to a demonstration. An estimated 10,000 people participate in antiglobalization protests at the G8 summit. Protesters injure eight officers with a hail of stones as police used water cannons to control the crowds. Officers arrested more than 140 demonstrators.
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NASA, We Have Liftoff!
Picture by Meghan McCarthy/Palm Beach Post/ZUMA
June 8, 2007 - Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - The Space Shuttle Atlantis leaves a trail hanging above the Kennedy Space Center as it transports seven crewmembers into space.
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The Tribe Remembers
Picture by K.C. Alfred/San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA
June 9, 2007 - La Jolla, California, U.S. - Surfers paddle out from Windansea Beach to honor the memory of professional surfer Emery Kauanui, a 24-year-old professional surfer who was beaten to death in late May. Cynthia Kauanui, Emery’ s mother, spreads her son’s ashes from a San Diego Lifeguard boat during the memorial service. Emery, a Windansea local, passed away May 28, four days after sustaining multiple head injuries during a violent altercation with four men in front of his mother’s condominium. The fight began at the Brew House bar after Emery accidentally spilled his drink on one of his alleged assailants.
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Hands On
Picture by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA
June 14, 2007 - Minneapolis. Minnesota, U.S. - Mourners embrace outside a funeral chapel in Minneapolis where a visitation for 14-year-old Charez Jones was taking place. Jones was killed Saturday night outside a birthday party in north Minneapolis.
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Racing Dragons June 19, 2007 - Hong Kong, China - Dragon boats race in Aberdeen Harbor.
Picture by ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA
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Yellow River Cleaning
Picture by TPG/ZUMA
June 20, 2007 - Beijing, China - The annual operation of flushing silt into the Bohai Sea from the ailing Yellow River, China’s second longest waterway, begins. The operation, due to be completed on July 1, will enable the river water to flow at 4,000 cubic meters per second, said the Yellow River water resources committee in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province.
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Happy Birthday, America!
Picture by Craig Moore/ZUMA
July 4, 2007 - Apgar, Montana, U.S. - Stars streak over Clements Mountain on Logan Pass in Glacier National Park at 2 a.m.
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Blind City
Picture by An Ping/Imaginechina/ZUMA
June 20, 2007 - Beijing, China - A Chinese girl walks by a billboard with eye expressions. The 15-square-meter billboard with 48 pairs of eyes is an advertising signboard for the drama The Blind City, which was on show in Beijing June 6 through June 17.
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Cocaine Fire
Picture by Christian Lombardi/ZUMA
June 21, 2007 - Chapare, Bolivia - Chemical products used to produce cocaine are destroyed with C4 explosives. Chapare is the biggest coca production region in Bolivia. In recent decades, the Chapare province has become a haven for illegal cultivation of the coca plant, which can be used to produce cocaine.
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Come One, Come All
Picture by Will Rose/UPPA/ZUMA
June 22, 2007 - Glastonbury, England, U.K. - Concertgoers enjoy the 2007 Glastonbury Music Festival despite torrential rains.
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She-Pee
Picture by David Levene/eyevine/ZUMA
June 23, 2007 - Glastonbury, England, U.K. - Toilets have always formed the basis of 50% of Glastonbury conversations, and this year was no exception. So, just how bad were they? Actually, some were pretty good, or at least, unusual. Of the 2,500 toilets on site, most novel was the women-only She-Pee, which involved baring your behind and peeing standing up, like a man, except through a cone of cardboard. It took a leap of faith to put your trust in a bit of card that looked like a narrower, more tapered version of a carton for McDonald’s fries. It was rather liberating provided you didn’t lose your nerve, wobble the device at the last minute and end up with a wet leg.
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Carpets R Us
Picture by UPPA/ZUMA
June 26, 2007 - Antalya, Turkey - With temperatures reaching up to 47 degrees Celsius, Antalya has found a new industry, carpet fading. Antalya, which is known as a tourist resort, is now finding a high demand for its hot sun. People from Turkey, Russia, Moldova and other countries in the region have started sending their carpets to Turkey to get their colors faded by the sun. Thousands of carpets have been laid out under the sun and will stay there for two months. The reason Antalya has become so popular for this type of work is because the fading process usually takes four months.
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You Looking At Me?
Picture by Yossi Zamir/EFE/ZUMA
June 28, 2007 - Haifa, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reacts as a protester challenges him at the Caesarea Conference. Olmert had just given a speech in which he addressed poverty and other pressing socioeconomic issues.
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Purple Rain
Picture by Altaf Zargar/ZUMA
July 10, 2007 - Srinagar, Kashmir, India - Social welfare department workers run for cover as the police spray colored water to disperse the crowd during a protest in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. The workers are protesting against the government and demanding permanent jobs and pay raises.
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God Is Your Enemy
Picture by Grant T. Morris/ZUMA
July 14, 2007 - Pasadena, California, U.S. - Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper of Topeka, Kansas, pickets the memorial of Army Pfc. Cory F. Hiltz on the corner of Los Robles Avenue and Colorado Road.The Topeka-based church members picket the funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq war because they believe their deaths to be examples of the wrath of a vengeful God.
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Hold the relish
Picture by Stephen JB Kelly
July 15, 2007 - London, England, U.K. - Police officers stop and question two youths on Tottenham Court Road in central London. Many of London’s black youths have become the targets of constant stop-and-search tactics by the Metropolitan police following the recent rise in shootings and stabbings within the capital.
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Swept Away
Picture by CQWB/Imaginechina/ZUMA
July 17, 2007 - Chongqing, China - Local residents walk down a flooded street in Chongqing Municipality. Since Monday, floods, landslides and mudflows caused by thunderstorms have killed at least 37 people. Chongqing received 266.6 mm of rainfall between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon, the largest volume since records began in 1892. The previous record was set on July 21, 1996, when the city received 206.1 mm of rainfall.
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TAM 3054
Picture by Agência Estado/ZUMA
July 17, 2007 - São Paulo, SP, Brazil - Nearly 200 die after Tam Linhas Aéreas flight 3054 crash-lands and bursts into flames at Congonhas, Brazil’s busiest airport. The Airbus 320 was en route to São Paulo from Porto Alegre when it attempted to land in driving rain on a runway criticized as being too short. The plane skidded and then traveled across a busy road at the height of the evening rush hour, slamming into a petrol station and erupting into a fireball. A federal court in February briefly banned takeoffs and
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Picture by Nigel Iskander/UPPA/ZUMA
July 23, 2007 - Tewkesbury, England, U.K. - Tewkesbury Abbey is surrounded by floodwaters from the River Severn and River Avon.The flooding crisis in central and western England continues with thousands of homes losing water and electricity. Up to 500,000 people in Gloucestershire are left without water as the River Severn’s water levels rise. The Environment Agency says water levels in the county have surpassed the devastating floods of 1947.
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Real Superheroes
Picture by Dulce Pinzon/eyevine/ZUMA
July 30, 2007 - New York City, New York, U.S. - Bernabe Mendez, aka Spiderman, works as a professional window cleaner in New York and sends $500 a month to his home in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Immigrants have always injected a dose of vitality into the city. These brave and determined men and women somehow manage to withstand extreme labor conditions in order to help their families back home. It is common for a Mexican worker in New York to work extraordinary hours in harsh conditions for very low wages, which are saved at great cost and sacrifice and sent to families and communities in Mexico who rely on them to survive.
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Morning After
Picture by Brian Peterson/Minnesota Star Tribune/ZUMA
Aug. 2, 2007 - Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. - Officials inspect the damage the morning after the I-35W freeway bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during rush hour. The bridge had been under repair when it broke into several huge sections, causing over 50 vehicles to plunge into the water or crash onto the ground below. Many are either missing or dead, and dozens more are injured.
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Information Washing Machine
Picture by Kfir Bolotin/UPPA/ZUMA
Aug. 2, 2007 - Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. - In this scene from the engaging Fuerzabruta, a theatrical production that overloads the senses, women writhe and glide in an overhead pool, which is colorfully lit from above.
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SUDAN no war but still a fight July 4, 2007 - Kolmerek, Sudan -
Every morning, 18-year-old Paul Maluk wakes up under a cow-skin he uses as a blanket. Thousands of towering horns, mounds of burning cow dung and the overwhelming sound of cattle surround him. At 7 a.m., the temperature is already 97 degrees; the air is filled with hot, suffocating ash. Maluk and 80 other boys at a cattle camp in southern Sudan near the Ethiopian border begin the day’s routine by collecting, spreading and burning cow dung. Before the cows are taken out to graze, the boys rub the powdery ash on themselves and the cows for protection from the unrelenting sun, 125-degree heat and the incessant tsetse flies. By 8:30 a.m., the sea of cattle begins flowing out of camp. Maluk and five others in the Dinka tribe shoulder their AK-47s as they head out in search of grass for the cattle to graze on. As the temperature continues to climb, they stay on alert for anyone who might steal the cows. Three weeks ago, three other boys were killed trying to protect the cattle from thieves. After walking for miles and guarding the cattle, Maluk and the others head back to the camp. There was no trouble this day. The cows pour into the dirt camp by sunset and systematically make their way back to the same spot, a wooden peg in the ground where they are tethered for the night. The boys at the camp, who spent their day caring for calves or taking milk to families in neighboring villages, greet ( continue d on page 119)
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Dinka are excited about living without war, and this gives them hope.
DTzine.com 119 Maluk and the others. Maluk finally lets his guard down and hangs up his AK-47. Half a dozen younger boys who admire Maluk and the others for their courage follow them as they head to a water hole to cool off. After a dinner of milk, rice and beans, the best part of the day begins for those in the camp. Under the stars, the sound of laughter, drums and music is everywhere. The cattle camp, like dozens of others in southern Sudan, is the most important aspect in the culture of the Dinka, the largest tribe in the country, numbering several million. They are a pastoral people with cattle representing their monetary system. The camps are the hubs of Dinka society, a place to reinforce cultural traits and pass down traditions from one generation to the next. For the Dinka, the cattle camps are a very positive place. But laughter and music have not always been an aspect of the camps. When the last civil war broke out in 1984, the camps became a safe haven for children fleeing the war. The children disappeared among the thousands of cattle, surviving for months, even years. The camps of boys and cattle became targets of the northern government of Sudan. Many camps were destroyed and thousands of children were killed in the 21 years of civil war that ended in 2005. More than 2 million people were killed and 4 million displaced in what the United Nations described as “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.” Even though war continues to rage in the Darfur province in the north, the southern Sudanese refugees are beginning to make their way back to their homeland after a peace agreement in January 2005, albeit a tentative agreement. But two years after the peace agreement, recovery from the war in southern S u d a n is slow. There is a lack of infrastructure, medical facilities and clean water, and gas is $8 a gallon. Recently, Empowering Lives International, a faith-based organization from California, is helping youths like M a l u k a n d t h e o t h e r s . The organization is providing education to more than 120 children and supporting more than 24 orphans. The war has left an educational void two generations deep in the Dinka tribe. Relief aid has focused on supplying basic needs for survival, but there has been no opportunity for children to get an education. And the children are hungry for knowledge. They practice math by smoothing out the dirt and performing math equations with their fingers on the ground. Maluk says he “hopes to one day go to school.” But for now, Maluk will rise each morning and begin his daily routine at the camp, as he has for years. He and other Dinka exhibit a resiliency forged from hard life, a resiliency that spans generations and a resiliency that inspires others. The Dinka are excited about living without war, and this gives them hope. There is a confidence that despite the enormous challenges the Dinka face, Maluk and other Sudanese like him will move forward with certainty in a new era of Sudan.
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DT: Where did you hear about the fistula center, and what attracted you to this story? Mary Calvert: Last year, I was given the assignment to cover the Palestinian elections in the territories and Israel. Our foreign editor decided to send us on a side trip to Ethiopia to do a piece on the political situation. I wanted to find something that I could work on while I was there, so I threw out my research net into Internet land. I think I started my search with “women’s issues/Ethiopia.” I kept getting references to a hospital that treated women suffering from obstetric fistula and was moved by the stories of theses poor women who had suffered so terribly. I had never heard of this and thought it would be a compelling story to work on.
DT: How did you convince the paper into letting you go to shoot this, and how many hoops did you need to jump through? Did your editors embrace this story, or did you have to prove to them it was a story worth telling? MC: I mentioned the story to my boss, who said to go for it. At the time, I don’t think they would have sent me to Ethiopia just to work on the story. It certainly helped that I was already going to be in Ethiopia and it wouldn’t cost very much to do. Gotta keep the bean counters happy. I made contact with the appropriate people at the hospital in Addis Ababa. Sister Ruth was encouraging to a point but told me that they would be hosting a group for a conference at the hospital and they wouldn’t be able to escort me around very much. As our emails went on, it wasn’t looking good for me to visit. She told me that I could have a two-hour visit at one of their smaller hospitals in the northern part of the country on a Saturday morning. By this time, I was in Israel trying to cover the elections and convince the reporter what a great, meaningful story was waiting for us in Ethiopia. Betsy Pisik, our ace United Nations reporter, and I bonded on our first trip together, and over a bottle of wine one windy, cold night in Gaza, I managed to get her excited about the story. By the time we checked into our hotel in Addis Ababa, wild horses couldn’t have dragged me from the fistula story. Little did I know that Sister Ruth had sent me an email saying basically, “Sorry, maybe on the next trip?” I called her when I got into town and finally just asked, “Is there anyone else who can show me around?” She sort of sighed and paused then told me that Dr. Andrew Browning would be meeting with another doctor at my hotel and that I could meet him and ask if I could go along with him to the north to the hospital in Bahar Dar. Sometimes you just have to crack the code, and that was it. Dr. Andrew was wonderful, said yes and even dropped me off at the travel agent to get tickets for Betsy and I. Two days later, we were on a small plane heading north. DT: Was the access difficult? What did it take to gain their trust? It looks like you were unrestrained in what you shot. MC: The hospital in Bahar Dar has only 30 beds as opposed to the large hospital in Addis with 120 beds. It was naturally a more intimate place to work. The people who worked there were great
and didn’t really restrict anything I did. I did my best to be very respectful and kind to the ladies. I learned a few words in Amharic, like hello, good morning, thank you, etc. And that seemed to break the ice. The nurses are very protective of the patients, and I know that if I was anything less than respectful, they would have sent me packing. Dr. Andrew told me not to shoot close-ups during the actual surgery. I could not use a picture like that and didn’t think I needed a picture like that to tell the story, so that was okay. DT: Emotionally, was this a hard story? How do you separate the photographer from the human? MC: It was a difficult story to do. I had never really done a story that actually made such a difference to someone. I could really sense that this one did and was very humbled by that. These women had suffered so terribly, but they were the lucky ones. While the treatment would give many of them their lives back, there were still so many women out there in living in misery. DT:What was the hardest part of telling this story? MC: The hardest part was telling the story with dignity. I mean, on the surface, this is a story about women who drip urine and/or feces wherever they go. I think you have to go beyond that and tell this story of the human condition…women who have been beaten down by a traumatic event in their lives but have whatever it takes to go on. DT:What was the best part of telling this story? MC: When I have told people about this story, I hear over and over, “I have never heard of this.” The best part was making people aware of this debilitating condition. DT: How long did it take until you felt you had all the images you needed? Was there an aspect of this story you were not able to cover? MC: I probably had about 10 visits to the hospitals in Bahar Dar and Addis Ababa. I would have liked to spend more time in the villages showing the roots of the problem. DT: Did you form any relationships with your subjects? MC: Not so much with the women being treated, but yes with Dr. Andrew and one of the nurses. DT:What stories do you have on tap for the future? MC: I want to do more evocative journalism stories like this. DT: Congrats on a fine essay, and keep up the good work.
FISTULA Suffering Mary F. Calvert of The Washington Times was a finalist in 91st annual Pulitzer Award in Feature Photography for her haunting depiction of sub-Saharan African women afflicted with fistulas after childbirth. A fistula is a tiny channel or tract that develops in the presence of inflammation and infection. It may or may not be associated with an abscess, but like abscesses, certain illnesses such as Crohn’s disease can cause fistulas to develop.The channel usually runs from the rectum to an opening in the skin around the anus. However, sometimes
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the fistula opening develops elsewhere . For example, in women with Crohn’s disease or obstetric injuries, the fistula could open into the vagina or bladder. Since fistulas are infected channels, there is usually some drainage. Often a draining fistula is not painful, but it can irritate the skin around it. An abscess and fistula often occur together. If the opening of the fistula seals over before the fistula is cured, an abscess may develop behind it.
Mary F. Calvert
Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert has worked at The Washington Times since 1998. Calvert was recently awarded 2007 Photojournalist of the Year, Smaller Markets in the National Press Photographer’s Association, Best of Photojournalism contest and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography. She also won First Prize Portfolio in the White House News Photographer’s Association 2007 Eyes of History competition. Calvert has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Militar y Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade for the last 11 years. Before working at The Washington Times, Calvert spent nine years covering the Bay Area for The Oakland Tribune and The Hayward Daily Review. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She makes her home in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband Joseph M. Eddins Jr. and 17-year-old daughter Mary Stone.
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