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            description: 'Angkor, Cambodia 2006. A young boy helps a blind monk ascend the steepest stairs of Ankor Wats main temple. ',
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            description: 'Angkor, Cambodia 2006. A visitor adds burning incense sticks to a shrine in Angkor Wat.',
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            description: 'Angkor, Cambodia 2006. An elephant driver waits for customers who want to ride up the steep incline to watch the sun set over Angkor Wat.',
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            description: 'Angkor, Cambodia 2006. A monk walks briskly through the ruins high above the forests of Angkor.',
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            description: 'Siem Reap, Cambodia 2006. A truck carries a full load of passengers to their homes in the countryside.',
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            description: 'Angkor, Cambodia 2006. A woman stands in the doorway of Banteay Srei. The intricate carvings are so small it is said that only the hands of a woman could have made them.',
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            description: 'Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2006. A man sells electronics at the French designed Art Deco central market.',
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            description: 'Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2006. A woman works in the area immediately surrounding "The Killing Fields." The graves are bordered on all sides by fields still being worked by the local farmers.',
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            description: 'Angkor, Cambodia 2006. Worshippers line up to offer fresh jasmine flowers to a Buddhist statue.',
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            description: 'Yangshuo, China 2006. A village once supported by fishing now presents a nightly spectacle designed by Ang Lee on the Li River to hundreds of tourists.',
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            description: 'Beijing, China 2006. An artist waits by his samples to carve the name of a customer into a stone seal or "chop."',
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            description: 'Beijing, China 2006. Shadow puppet figures carved from animal hide hang on display above their vendor.',
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            description: 'Beijing, China 2006. A view from within one of the many temples of The Forbidden City. They have undergone extensive renovation for the upcoming Olympics.',
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            description: 'Beijing, China 2006. Workers build scaffolding high above Beijing in order to renovate the aging roofs of The Forbidden City.',
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            description: 'Beijing, China 2006. The sun sets through a thick haze next to the moat surrounding The Forbidden City.',
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            description: 'Miyun County, China 2006. Hikers navigate the steep and crumbled section of The Great Wall 120 km northeast of Beijing.',
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            description: 'Shanghai, China 2006. A cat awaits its fate on the cramped side streets of Shanghai.',
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            description: 'Hong Kong, China 1997. A worker builds scaffolding out of bamboo. The sturdy but light material can be seen engulfing any construction project.',
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            description: 'Xia He, china 1997. The lunch time rush has monks carrying porridge made in large, sunken vats to the temple as quickly as possible.',
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            description: 'Hong Kong, China 2006. A seaman working on The Star Ferry Line waits to unteather a boat full of passengers headed back to Kowloon from Hong Kong Island.',
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            description: 'Hoi An, Vietnam 2006. Women talk amidst a public market. The conical hat or, “non la” is common and very practical given its weight and sun blocking ability. It can also be dipped in the water to create a cooling effect as the water evaporates. ',
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            description: 'Hoi An, Vietnam 2006. A soldier waits on the streets of “Ancient Town.” The influence of China on the port city can be seen in the streets of this downtown area recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ',
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            description: 'Central Vietnam 2006. A farmer works a field in what used to be a bombed out wasteland that comprised The Demilitarized Zone. This piece of land near the 17th parallel used to separate North Vietnam from South Vietnam.',
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            description: 'Central Vietnam 2006. A sprout grows bringing new life to an area of land that after years of being ravaged by the effects of napalm has only recently begun to support farming. ',
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            description: 'Central Vietnam 2006. An old US Army bunker riddled with bullet holes is almost completely overgrown by the vegetation that has begun to take over the once desolate area of The Demilitarized Zone. ',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. Tired and dirty after working during the rice planting season, boys relax on a concrete slab.',
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            description: 'Central Vietnam 2006. An unused round of ammunition lies near a rusty piece of barbed wire. There are still many pieces of live ammunition that litter the fields of Vietnam and present a danger to all who live and work there.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. Mud drives on a water buffalo as it waits for the return of a farmer who will drive the old wooden plow through the deep mud of the rice paddy.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. Women and mothers of the Black Mong tribe have no time to rest during rice planting season in the mountains of North West Vietnam.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. A Mong girl travels with a load on her back down one of the many steep and muddy paths that link together the many farming villages in the mountains.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. A water buffalo takes a short break to inspect the camera lens. These animals are responsive for much of the work that goes into rice farming on the hill sides.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. A young girl reaches the top of a steep hill on her way to the village where she will sell the contents of her basket at market.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. Three Mong children hitch a ride on water buffalo that are already headed in the direction they plan to go.',
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            description: 'Sapa, Vietnam 2006. A Red Mong woman embroiders cloth that she will attempt to sell at the nearby market.',
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            description: 'Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2006. Different varieties of rice and their cost are displayed at a city market.',
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