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  • It's polo season in India, and an Indian polo official waits patiently for the riders to score a goal  at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 10, 2002. Invented in South Asia hundreds of years ago, and refined by generations of colonial English cavalrymen, Indian polo had largely disappeared by the 1980s,in the past few years, polo has found new patrons in the magnates who have emerged since India opened up its economy. Elizabeth Dalziel
    INDIA POLO 04
  • Nepalese homes stand in a lush green valley of  rice fields spared by the raging lanslide waters next to the ravaged area of the natural disaster that is the single most deadly monsoon caused incident this year in South Asia, in the Nepalese village of Thapru Friday Aug. 23, 2002. 41 people remain missing and are presumed dead, 13 bodies have been rescued,  and only 28 villagers survived Wednesday's himalayan disaster that destroyed most of the foothill village.
    NEPAL LANDSLIDE 01
  • It's polo season in India, and the well-bred man and horse alike are again facing off on grassy fields, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 10, 2002. Invented in South Asia hundreds of years ago, and refined by generations of colonial English cavalrymen, Indian polo had largely disappeared by the 1980s,in the past few years, polo has found new patrons in the magnates who have emerged since India opened up its economy.
    INDIA POLO 05
  • The leading man in a film production performs a fight scene on the set of an action movie in film city in the outskirts of Bombay, India Dec. 7, 2004.Bombay's film industry may be the most prolific in the world, but unlike it's American counterpart, much of the work is done on a shoestring. The city churns out hundreds of films a year on its celluloid production line.
    INDIA BOLLYWOOD 12
  • hand made posters of Bollywood movies, now being replaced by machine made Action heros are depicted in a hand painted poster in Bombay, India Dec. 9, 2004. Rather than ripping down a poster once a film has stopped its run, Bombay's dwindling troupe of billboard painters simply cover their last masterpiece with the artwork for next week's big release.
    INDIA BOLLYWOOD 14
  • Dancers put on their make up as they prepare for their next dance routine in Bombay, India Dec 10, 2004. Bombay's film industry may be the most prolific in the world, but unlike it's American counterpart, much of the work is done on a shoestring. The city churns out hundreds of films a year on its celluloid production line.
    INDIA BOLLYWOOD 13
  • A Uygur ethnic minority man enjoys a bowl of  ìopkeî a broth made from stuffed intestines and goat bits including the head, at the famed livestock Sunday market bazaar in Kashgar, a major silk road hub for over 2000 years and the heartland of the Uygur ethnic minority in China, Sunday May 21, 2006.
    CHINA SILK ROAD 01
  • Protesters show letters detailing their complaints and asking for justice as they are taken away by police outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 01
  • A group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member are taken away by police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb.5, 2009.While the nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress met, rings of uniformed and plainclothes police sealed off Tiananmen and kept ordinary Chinese and the normal hordes of tourists away. Police detained about two dozen people.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 13
  • Chinese youth practice military drills outside of their school in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 03
  • Children play next to a large painting in the likeness of Communist ideologist Karl Marx in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, China, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 02
  • A statue of late chairman Mao stands in the central square of model village  Nan Jie Cun, China, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009.Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 01
  • A man commutes on the fast train from Tianjing to  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country. In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 13
  • Postings for real estate are advertised on the window of property agents in Shanghai, China, Friday, May 29, 2009.Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 06
  • Chinese gold medal Athletes, Wu Yunhun, left and Zhang Hongwei bear the Olympic torch    at the Paralympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing , China, Saturday, Sept.6, 2008.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 04
  • An usher clears tea cups from the stage where leaders sat, at the end of the  National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People, after the annual session's final day in  Beijing, China, Friday, March 13, 2009.The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 05
  • A young farmer trecks home in the Maoist controlled district of Rukum Friday April 23, 2004. Farmers in the lush rebel heartland of this poor Himalayan kingdom say they joined Maoists in their revolution to topple the monarchy as they yearn for their children to have more. That revolution began in the hills of Rukum and the three surrounding districts, which are among the country's poorest. There are no roads, few schools and people subsist on farming.
    NEPAL MAOIST 07
  • Children follow their teacher as they head back to school, on the first day back to classes after the tsunami in the town of Panadura, Sri Lanka Monday Jan. 10, 2005.  Some 8,000 children will start lessons in makeshift school rooms _ some in tents pitched near their destroyed schools, some in buildings that did not fall and some using emergency "school-in-a-box" kits provided by UNICEF consisting of exercise books, pencils, chalk, teaching aids and some puzzles.
    SRI LANKA TSUNAMI
  • A camera man works on a film set in Mumbai, Tuesday Dec. 7, 2004.
    INDIA BOLLYWOOD 05
  • Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform herself through plastic surgery prepares to undergo her 22nd operation in Beijing, China Aug. 24, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 03
  • It's polo season in India, amid heavy fog and the well-bred man and horse alike are again face off on grassy field, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Friday Nov. 1, 2002.  When the heat of summer fades, and the winter haze settles over the Indian plains, the rich return to the playing fields of New Delhi, and the sport of the maharajas returns to this ancient city.
    INDIA POLO 06
  • A Chinese Protester wrestles with police as she tries to retrieve  letters detailing her complaints and asks for justice outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 19
  • A Chinese Protester cries over the death of a relative as he shows letters detailing his complaints and asks for justice outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 20
  • A Chinese paramilitary Police helps Chinese police clear the scene where petitioners threw written accounts of their grievances near Tiananmen square, in hopes to have their case seen and heard by a larger audience, after failed attempts to have their cases heard at the Petition's office  in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Many Chinese have come from around the country to Beijing seeking redress for problems with local officials, flocking to the capital to coincide with the annual National People's Congress session. Their numbers commonly increase ahead of the meeting, and they are often followed by local police to the capital and taken back home.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 17
  • Chinese petitioners start their day in the cramp quarters they share, as they prepare head out to air grievances in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Many Chinese have come from around the country to Beijing seeking redress for problems with local officials, flocking to the capital to coincide with the annual National People's Congress session. Their numbers commonly increase ahead of the meeting, and they are often followed by local police to the capital and taken back home.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 16
  • A Petitioner is taken away by police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2009.While the nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress met, rings of uniformed and plainclothes police sealed off Tiananmen and kept ordinary Chinese and the normal hordes of tourists away. Police detained about two dozen people. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 15
  • A middle-aged petitioner from the countryside his head and shirt bloody,surrounded  by police and paramilitary police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb.5, 2009. Police detained about two dozen people, among them a group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 12
  • Chinese Petitioners kneel before a car, blocking the vehicle's way, as they beg to display their petition letters near a local government office supposed to receive grievances in  Beijing, China, Friday, Feb.27, 2009.  Police have taken away more than 1,000 petitioners looking to air their grievances ahead of the annual meeting of China's legislature. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 11
  • A middle-aged petitioner from the countryside his head and shirt bloody, is carried away by police and paramilitary police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2009. Police detained about two dozen people, among them a group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 09
  • A homeless man with a broken arm lies at an alley where petitioners live as they wait to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Many Chinese have come from around the country to Beijing seeking redress for problems with local officials, flocking to the capital to coincide with the annual National People's Congress session. Their numbers commonly increase ahead of the meeting, and they are often followed by local police to the capital and taken back home.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 10
  • Chinese police arrive to the seen where petitioners threw written accounts of their grievances in the air at a busy shopping street, near Tiananmen square, in hopes to have her case seen and heard by a larger audience, after failed attempts to have their cases heard at the Petition's office  in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 08
  • Chinese petitioners throw written accounts of their grievances in the air at a busy shopping street, near Tiananmen square, in hopes to have her case seen and heard by a larger audience, after failed attempts to have their cases heard at the Petition's office  in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 07
  • A Chinese petitioner writes an account of his grievances in hopes to have his case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 06
  • Chinese petitioners prepare written statements of their of their grievances in the cramp quarters they share, as they in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 03
  • Li Shuzhen, who suffers of cancer and accuses her Doctors of medical malpractice shows her injuries in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTCE 04
  • A Chinese petitioner shows a written account of her grievances in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 02
  • Workers unload electronic waste from trucks as seen from a hidden position inside of a vehicle, in an area where much of the world's electronic waste _ from cell phone chargers to mainframe computers _ ends up in Guiyu and other small towns like it in eastern China, Thursday March 16, 2006. Workers, many of them poorly paid migrants strip, smash and melt down circuit boards, mainly to extract the copper and other precious metals inside. The business has created massive pollution from leaded glass and other toxic materials.Such pollution could be mitigated by moves to recycle and properly dispose of so-called electronic waste that are gaining ground in the West.
    CHINA E-WASTE 11
  • A Japanese woman dressed in a Kimono smokes a cigarette outside a metro station in Kyoto, Japan May, 4, 2009.
    JAPAN DAILY LIFE 02
  • A worker polishes the security cordon surrounding a very large chair set as decoration at the entrance to the plenary session room for the World Economic Foum in Dalian, China, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 07
  • A Uighur minority man offers a horse's head at his butcher shop in the Sunday Bazaar in Hotan, China, Sunday, July 12, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 09
  • Private forms of commerce, not seen in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, as people peddling food in the streets line up outside the walls of the city, a stone throw away from the model village in China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 12
  • A worker operates machinery at a factory in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 11
  • Workers dressed in communist style uniforms sing revolutionary songs ahead of a day's work in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 10
  • Images from revolutionary China adorn a wall in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 09
  • Chinese youth dig in to their books during a lesson at a school in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 08
  • A Child eats free noodles at a communal dining hall in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 07
  • A worker waits for a free meal at a communal dining hall in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 06
  • Model workers are shown on a board at the entrance of a factory in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 05
  • A home is decorated with Mao memorabilia in the model village Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 04
  • Pedestrians walk along side high rises in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country. In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 14
  • Statues line up the entrance to an apartment building in Chongqing, China, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country. In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 14
  • An add for an urban development is advertised at the entrance to a building in Chongqing, China, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline.Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 12
  • A poster showing the projected view of an urban development on display at the site where investors plan to build it Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 09
  • A couple walks along a street lined with apartment buildings, seen through the window of a taxi cab, in Chongqing, China, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 08
  • A man works out in a common green area at an apartment complex in Shanghai, China, Saturday, May 30, 2009. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities
    CHINA MEGACITIES 04
  • Workers in an office speak in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 03
  • A young woman commutes across the city of Chongqing in a cable car in  China, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities
    CHINA MEGACITIES 02
  • A man looks out from the window of his home at his apartment complex in Shanghai, China, Saturday, May 30, 2009. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 01
  • Denmark's Peter Rosenmeier, left, shows his gold medal as Netherland's Nico Blok bites his bronze medal, at the medal award ceremony for Singles Standing Class 6 Table Tennis at the Paralympic Games in against  Beijing , China, Thursday, Sept.11, 2008.
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  • France's Christophe Durand, listens to the French national anthem aftere winning the gold medal for Singles sitting Class 4-5 Table Tennis during the medal award ceremony at the Paralympic Games  Beijing , China, Thursday, Sept.11, 2008. Durand won the Gold medal.
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  • France's Christophe Durand celebrates a point scored against Korea's Jung Eun-Chang during the gold medal Singles sitting Class 4-5 Table Tennis match  at the Paralympic Games in Beijing , China, Thursday, Sept.11, 2008. Durand won the Gold medal.
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  • Ukraine's Dmytro Kryzhanovskyy, center prepares to start the leg of his relay for the  men's 4X50 medley at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics in Beijing , China, Monday, Sept.15, 2008. China went on to win the gold.
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  • Sugui Kriss, second left, cheers along with her team mates, Hope Lewellen, first left, Kari Miller, center, Brenda Maymon, second right and Alexandra Gouldie, first right, as her American team scores against China during a sitting volleyball match  at the Paralympic games in Beijing , China, Tuesday, Sept.9, 2008. Sugui Kriss always wanted to return to China to find a few of her roots and, perhaps, to leave her mark on the country She's done both She marched into the National Stadium _ the Bird's Nest _ last weekend for the opening ceremony of Beijing's Paralympic Games, representing the U.S. as a member of its sitting volleyball team. How different this was from her early life in southern China; an abandoned infant who was raised in an orphanage in Kunming until she was adopted 13 years ago by the American couple Charles and Marilyn Kriss. If Paralympic organizers are looking for a poster girl, SuGui Kriss would be a perfect choice.
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  • Gold medalist Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson, center, celebrates along side Silver medalist Zhang Cuiping, left and bronze medalist Dong Chao during the award ceremony for the mixed R-6 50 mm Free Rifle Prone SH1 Shooting competition at the Paralympics in Beijing , China, Friday, Sept.12, 2008.
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  • China's Wang Yafeng gets ready to take a corner during the  Football 5-A side match between China and Spain at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics Games in Beijing , China, Saturday, Sept.13, 2008. China won 1-0.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
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  • A soldier dressed as an usher yawns before the third plenary session of the National People's Congress, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday, March 10, 2009.  The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
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  • A guest to a celebration of the 99th Anniversary of the International Women's Day at the Great Hall of the People poses for a souvenir snap shot next to a flower pot in Beijing, China, Friday, March 6, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
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  • An Usher waits for delegates at the Great Hall of the people  Beijing, China, Friday, March 6, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
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  • Delegates head to a National People's Congress plenary session at the great Hall of the peopleBeijing, China, Monday, March 9, 2009. China's National People's Congress is a largely powerless body but it represents one of the country's last displays of old style communism. Ethnic minority delegates from around the country attend the meetings wearing traditional costumes, a conceit which allows the government to argue that the nation's different cultures co-exist harmoniously. Little is decided at these gatherings though. The NPC functions largely as a rubber stamp body for policies put forward by the Communist party's elite.
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  • Troops from the 2nd Battalion dance alongside villagers after descending from the mountains in to the valley to take part in a cultural program and remembrance ceremony in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Thursday April 22, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • A villager shows a picture of the late King Birendra of Nepal, who was murdered in alongside 10 other members of the royal family in 2001, is seen in  a heart shaped window in the wallet of a villager in the district of Rukum, viewed as the Maoist heartland Friday April 23, 2004. The Maoists, who say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been battling since February 1996 to replace the monarchy with a communist state. The current Nepali King Gyanendra, faces besides tackling the insurgency, daily protests in the capital for dumping a democratically elected government in 2002.
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  • Villagers and Maoist soldiers dressed in civilian clothing play carrom ball after some troops belonging to the 2nd batallion made descended from the mountains  in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Wednesday April 21, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • A Nepali farmers rest under a tree as they treck their way along the narrow paths that lie between villages instead of roads in the Maoist controlled district of Rukum . Among the conditions that Nepal offers for a revolution, not only is there no democratically elected government, but farmers still have few roads or schools and live under a feudal systemwhere a handful of rich landlords exploit millions of poor. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
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  • A statue of the late King Birendra of Nepal, who was murdered in alongside 10 other members of the royal family in 2001, stands in the a roadside town in the district of Dang, Saturday, April 24, 2004. Although more than 600 people have been injured in battles with the police and the street protestors, the five major political parties continue their demonstrations, demanding that King Gyanendra dismiss the government appointed by him, and allow new elections or form a government led by the major parties in the last Parliament.
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  • A little girl, right, peers at a man in a protective suit a couple of hundred meters away from the farm in the northern grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region in Tengjiaying, China in this Thursday Nov. 3, 2005 file photo. China said Sunday it can't rule out bird flu in the death of a 12-year-old girl last month and has called on the World Health Organization to help with diagnosis.
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  • An Indian woman wearing a traditional Indian Sari sips her tea at the end cocktail party for the Pizza hut Polo tournament at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. "The chiffon and pearl brigade, we call it," said Asmita Agarwal, a tough-talking polo and fashion writer for the Hindustan Times. "Women in chiffon saris dripping with huge diamonds ... They're all royalty, or at least they're trying to be royalty."  In many ways, that's what modern Indian polo is about joining the new royalty.
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  • Polo players line up with their Pizza Cup trophees, big and small, at the official award ceremony following the final match at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002.   "Polo was a team game before," said Maharani Gayatri Devi, the 85-year-old queen mother of the former royal state of Jaipur, India's polo capital.  A 21st-century magnate may be a mediocre player, but he can ride with the best by hiring professionals "assassins," polo's old guard calls them
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  • -It's polo season in India, and the well-bred man and horse alike are again facing off on grassy fields, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. There are galloping horses imported from Argentina and grooms in bright maroon turbans to care for them. There are wealthy players shouting in Hindi, Spanish and the most refined Oxford English. There are flocks of model-thin women in tight jeans and flashy jewelry.
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  • Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform herself through plastic surgery greets the media as she prepares to undergo her 22nd operation in Beijing, China Aug. 24, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
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  • A Chinese woman who underwent a leg streching operation shows the ammount of leg growth she is hoping to achieve in Beijing, China May 15, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
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  • Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform herself through plastic surgery shows off her buttocks implants to her doctors before undergoing her 22nd operation in Beijing, China Aug. 24, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 05
  • A Plastic surgeon looks at an eyelid surgery procedure done on a young inner Mongolian immigrant in Beijing, China Oct. 26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. .Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947..
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 02
  • A North Korean soldier wears a pin showing the late President of North Korea Kim Il Sung on his uniform, as he stands outside of the house where the military armistice treaty was signed on the demarcation line in Panmunjon, on the border between North Korea and South Korea Tuesday Aug. 7, 2007.
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  • Chinese swimmer Li Hanhua, center, rests  after the final for the men's 4X50 medley at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics in Beijing , China, Monday, Sept.15, 2008. China went on to win the gold.
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  • A Protester is approached by police after voicing his complaints and asking for justice outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
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  • A Chinese Petitioners approach a car, blocking the vehicle's way, as they plead to show their grievances, near a local government office supposed to receive petitions in  Beijing, China, Friday, Feb.27, 2009. Police have taken away more than 1,000 petitioners looking to air their grievances ahead of the annual meeting of China's legislature, supporter of the petitioners said. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
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  • A Chinese petitioner takes a  2 hour ride to the city to air her grievances in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 05
  • Chinese play football in a green area set against the back drop of apartment buildings in Shanghai, China, Saturday, May 30, 2009. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
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  • Apartment blocks are seen from the window of a facing building in Chongqing, China, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008.
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  • A woman looks outside of her window in Chongqing, China, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 07
  • USA's team makes their entrance to the court  for the gold medal final wheelchair rugby match between the USA and Australia at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in Beijing , China, Tuesday, Sept.16, 2008. The USA took the gold medal winning 53-44 against Australia.
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  • USA's Roy Perkins prepares to leave at the end of the final for the men's 4X50 medley at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics in Beijing , China, Monday, Sept.15, 2008. China went on to win the gold.
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  • Brazil's Ricardo Alves, left, Damiao Ramos, center and Sandro Soares, listen the the Brazilian national anthem moments before the start of the Football 5-A side match between Brazil and Great Britain at the Paralympics in Beijing , China, Saturday, Sept.13, 2008. Brazil won 5-0.
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  • A Chinese worker polishes the floors of the Great Hall of the People ahead of the annual meeting of the Chinese legislature next week  in Beijing, China, Saturday, Feb.28, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
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  • Chinese men smoke and play cards by the side of the river in the outskirts of Shanghai, China May 10, 2005.
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