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  • A Chinese worker with a SinoHydro helmet flashes the peace (V) sign for a photo at the construction site for Dam #5 on the Nam Ou River, Laos.
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  • A worker at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, throws sheep skin leathers into a pile. They are coated in lime to make the hair easier to remove.
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  • A worker further cleans the duck carcasses of remnants of feathers as they pass by on a conveyor belt at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on Octoer 11, 2008. Mexican music booms from the stereo - most of the employees in the factory are Mexican immigrants.
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  • A worker pushes a cart down the aisle between the duck pens carrying buckets of grain used for force-feeding the birds at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Migratory birds, including ducks, are capable of storing large amounts of fat in their liver. Forced overeating replicates the effect, producing the enlarged, fatty livers used for Foie Gras.
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  • A worker holds the large blade which he uses to file down the rough side of yellow dyed sheep skins at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, on October 31, 2007.
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  • A worker uses a special machine to force-feed ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York. Migratory birds, including ducks, are capable of storing large amounts of fat in their liver. Forced overeating replicates the effect, producing the enlarged, fatty livers used for Foie Gras.
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  • A worker at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, pulls sheep wool off skins coated with lime on October 31, 2007. Chemical lime reacts with the wool, making it easier to remove. The wool is washed in the drainage canal behind the tannery.
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  • A worker places foie gras (enlarged duck livers) into a red pale at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008.
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  • Workers stack stockfish pulled from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • Workers stack stockfish pulled from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • Workers pull stockfish from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • A man watches the sun set from inside his home at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • A young man pulls stockfish from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • An off-duty fish factory employee (who came from Poland looking for work) hooks a fish at the commercial port in Sorland, Vaeroy Island, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • Eduardo Leon leaves for work as his wife Marcela watches television in their studio apartment in Swan Lake, New York on October 11, 2008. Leon, who immigrated from Puebla state, Mexico to upstate New York to join his parents and siblings, works every day at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale while his wife, expecting a child, stays home.
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  • Eduardo Leon dresses for work at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 12, 2008. Leon, who immigrated from Puebla state, Mexico to upstate New York to join his parents and siblings, works every day at the factory to support his wife who stays home while expecting a child.
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  • The appearance of a rainbow startles men working outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Electrical engineer Jacek Renkas scrubs rust from the hull of a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle still in use at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A young man pulls stockfish from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • A man pulls stockfish from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • A young man pulls stockfish from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • A man inspects the quality of the sheep leather skins hanging to dry on a wall in the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco.
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  • A man works on the remodeling of the community center in Santa Martha Latuvi, part of the Pueblos Mancomunados, a network Zapotec villages in the Sierra Norte Mountains of Oaxaca state, Mexico on July 14, 2008. The Pueblos Mancomunados, literally "joint villages", welcome low-impact tourism with cabins, home stays and a large network of signposted trails and forest roads throughout the spectacular landscape which the communities share.
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  • Gardener Jose Razo waters plants on the roof of CICEANA (Centro de Información y Comunicación Ambiental de Norte América), or Centre for Information and Environmental Communication of North America, set in the Viveros de Coyoacan (Coyoacan Nurseries) in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. CICEANA's mission is to promote sustainable development and stimulate initiatives to solve and prevent environmental problems.
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  • An airport employee fixes an outdoor light fixture at Boise International Airport in Boise, Idaho as the sun sets on September 11, 2007.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki rolls a fuel drum, pushed inland by high winds during a violent storm, back towards the shore at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki rolls a fuel drum, pushed inland by high winds during a violent storm, back towards the shore at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Rafal Flieger walks past as electrical engineer Jacek Renkas scrubs rust from the hull of a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle still in use at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A man carries out stockfish pulled from drying racks in Å, Lofoten Islands, Norway.
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  • A man cleans wool pulled from sheep skins in the tanning pits at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco.
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  • A man works in the tanning pits at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco.
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  • A man walks among the lime pits at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco.
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  • Eduardo Leon, a Mexican immigrant from Puebla now living in Swan Lake, stands in a passageway holding out the blade he uses to cut out the duck livers at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 12, 2008.
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  • A woman works in her plot at the Salinas salt pans of Maras, Sacred Valley, Peru on September 22, 2005. Natives of Maras own and harvest the salt pans for sale to the cooperative which distributes it to the region's markets as industrial to table salt.
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  • Workers at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, carve and clean the edges of sheep skins on October 31, 2007.
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  • Workers sweep garbage collected by garbage trucks from the streets of the city into piles at the Estacion de Transferencia de Residuos Solidos, or ?Solid Waste Transfer Station in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. Organic and inorganic, recyclable and non-recyclable waste is currently collected all at once by the same garbage trucks, making it necessary to sort the garbage on site at the transfer station.
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  • Workers file down the rough side of yellow dyed sheep skins at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, on October 31, 2007.
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  • Workers at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, carve and clean the edges of sheep skins and coat them with lime on October 31, 2007. Chemical lime helps separate the wool from the leather.
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  • Alfonzo Romero relaxes with his family outside his home at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. The company provides free housing to some of its employees, particularly to those who work shifts around the clock force-feeding the ducks. Romero, originally from Puebla, came to the United States walking across the border, arriving in Ferndale to become one of the original four employees who started building the factory farm in 1989. His family has since joined him, the factory now employs about 120 workers (many from Puebla) and thus a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills. After twenty years living in the United States, Romero still does not speak any English.
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  • The home of Alfonzo Romero, a long-time employee who lives with his family at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. The company provides free housing to some of its employees, particularly to those who work shifts around the clock force-feeding the ducks. Romero, originally from Puebla, came to the United States walking across the border, arriving in Ferndale to become one of the original four employees who started building the factory farm in 1989. His family has since joined him, the factory now employs about 120 workers (many from Puebla) and thus a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • Workers process the duck carcasses, removing the foie gras (enlarged duck liver) at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on Octoer 11, 2008. Mexican music booms from the stereo - most of the employees in the factory are Mexican immigrants.
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  • Workers rub yellow dye onto a sheep skin at the Berber leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco, on October 31, 2007.
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  • Eduardo Leon, left, picks up his friend Henry (last name not given) and others every morning on his way to work at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. This morning, Leon had to go searching for Henry, who often oversleeps, still exhausted from his night shift at another factory.
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  • Young men sit down at a market eatery to eat a quick lunch in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas state, Mexico.
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  • Coworkers at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, socialize during their break on the expansive roof garden of the government building in Mexico City on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • Employees at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, Araceli Maya and Mayta Landa (l-r), work among the flower pots on the expansive roof garden of the government building on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • Men work in red dyeing pits at a leather tannery in Fes El-Bali, Morocco on October 31, 2007. Yellow sheep skins dry on the surrounding rooftops.
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  • Alberto Favela, right, garden coordinator at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, inspects the health of lettuce seedlings in the expansive roof garden of the government building in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
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  • A construction worker shovels wet concrete at a house site in Paracho, Michoacan state, Mexico.
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  • A construction worker's chest harness and carpenter tool belt sits in a pile besides a Honey Bucket portable toilet at a new housing development in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • Alfonzo Romero walks down the road with his family to a neighbor's house to begin celebrating the Fiesta de la Hispanidad, commemorating the coronation of the Virgen de Guadalupe as queen of the hispanic world at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • Duck carcasses, dripped, feathered and washed, lay in a pile in the cutting room where workers manually remove the enlarged livers (foie gras) at the Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008.
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  • Robert Hahn (center) chats with Vietnamese workers, while drinking a Vietnamese beer, on a mechanical gold dredge floating on the Nam Ou River, Laos. Six men live on the vessel for months, rotating throughout the day and working in pairs to keep the machine in constant operation.
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  • A woman tenderly kisses a statue of the Virgen de Guadalupe during the Fiesta de la Hispanidad, commemorating the coronation of the Virgen de Guadalupe as queen of the hispanic world at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. The shrine of balloons and flower in honor of Mexico's patron saint was built inside the factory. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • People crowd into a neighbor's house to begin celebrating the Fiesta de la Hispanidad, commemorating the coronation of the Virgen de Guadalupe as queen of the hispanic world at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • Children play together outside their homes at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • Children play together outside their homes at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • A traveling salesman sells Mexican food products, clothing and other items from his truck to residents at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • Fans circulate the air in the large hangar where the ducks, held in pens, are force-fed meals by workers a few times daily at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Migratory birds, including ducks, are capable of storing large amounts of fat in their liver. Forced overeating replicates the effect, producing the enlarged, fatty livers used for Foie Gras.
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  • Construction workers put the finishing touches on a new housing development in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • A young boy leads the candle-lit procession down the road to the factory for the Fiesta de la Hispanidad, commemorating the coronation of the Virgen de Guadalupe as queen of the hispanic world at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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  • Families crowd into a neighbor's house to feast and begin celebrating the Fiesta de la Hispanidad, commemorating the coronation of the Virgen de Guadalupe as queen of the hispanic world at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in Ferndale, New York on October 11, 2008. Some of the workers and their families, practically all Mexican immigrants, live on the grounds of the factory in company provided housing; a small, isolated Mexican community flourishes in the Catskills.
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