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20070610

India, 2003
  William Albert Allard

Festive lights bring a bit of sparkle to a slum in an Indian city.
Although India’s constitution forbids caste discrimination, Hinduism’s rigid social codes continue to govern daily life for 80 percent of the population. One out of six Indians is born to the achuta, or Untouchable caste, which governs where they live, what work they perform, and with whom they may socialize.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Untouchable, " June 2003, National Geographic magazine)

印度,2003
节日的彩灯给印度城市的贫民区带来了一丝光彩。
虽然印度的宪法禁止等级歧视，但印度教严格的教条还是继续支配着80%的人口。六分之一的印度人
出身是achuta或贱民，这决定了他们的人生：从事什么样的工作，以及能与哪些人交往。

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20070611

New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000
  Bob Sacha

An infrared view of a New Orleans street gives this cemetery scene a psychedelic air.
Burials in New Orleans demand creative solutions due to the city? high water table. In the past, New Orleanians weighed coffins with stones or even bored holes in them to keep them from floating to the surface. Today, caskets are usually placed in above-ground-vaults, like the ones pictured here.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, ?pirits of New Orleans,?October 2000, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

新奥尔良,路易斯安那,2000
这张拍摄于新奥尔良街道的红外感光的相片，给这处墓地景观营造了一种迷幻气氛。
由于这个城市的较高的水位，需要一种创新的方法来解决墓葬的问题。
在过去，新奥尔良人会用石棺来安葬，甚至还会在石棺上打洞以防止棺材浮出水面。
现在，棺材通常会安置在拱顶之下，如相片中所示一样。

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20070612

Sydney, Australia, 2000
  Annie Griffiths Belt

Storm clouds paint the sky over Circular Quay, the heart of Sydney Harbor and the gateway for many of the city’s waterside attractions, including the Sydney Opera House, at right. A sequence of nested concrete shells forms the roof of this iconic structure, which opened in 1973 after almost three decades of planning and construction.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Sydney,” August 2000, National Geographic magazine)

悉尼,澳大利亚,2000
暴风雨的乌云图染了环形码头（Circular Quay）上的天空，这里是悉尼港的中心，也是通往这个城市众多水上景观(其中包括画

面右边的悉尼歌剧院)的门户。
顺序嵌套的混凝土外壳形成了这个标志性建筑的屋顶，悉尼歌剧院在经历近乎三十年的计划和建造后，于1973年对处开放。

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20070613

Armenia, 2004
  Alexandra Avakian

An Armenian tightrope walker steadies himself with his balance pole as he prepared to perform a trick.
Throughout its history Armenia has walked a sort of geopolitical tightrope of its own, situated as it is on one of the region's most venerable trade routes?he land bridge between Europe and Asia. Centuries of invasion and foreign rule have shaped and reshaped this tiny republic's borders and hammered an ethic of resilience into its people.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Rebirth of Armenia, " March 2004, National Geographic magazine)

亚美尼亚(前苏联加盟共和国),2004
一个亚美尼亚走钢丝者手握平衡杆稳定地走着，正准备表演一个特技。
溯及亚美尼亚的历史，它也象是在走一条地理政治学的钢索，它位于众多古老商道区域之一--联系欧洲与亚洲的陆桥。几世纪以

来的入侵和外族统治，不断地形成和再形成着这个小小共和国的边界，也使它的人民锻炼出一种有弹性的伦理观。

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20070614

Vallejo, California, 1995
  Michael Nichols

Water flies as a young white tiger shakes itself dry in a pool at California’s Marine World Africa USA. (Now called Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.)
White tigers are extremely rare in nature, and many seen in zoos today are produced through controversial inbreeding. White tigers can be born to normal-colored tigers if both parents carry the recessive gene for white coloring.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Making Room for Tigers,” December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

瓦列霍,加利福尼亚,1995
加州的美国非洲海洋公园(现被称为：Six Flags Discovery Kingdom)中，一只白虎在水池中在把身上的水甩干。
白虎在自然界中很难见到，现在在动物园中所见到的白虎基本上是近亲繁殖的产物。如果两只普通老虎都携带白色的隐性基因的话，它们所生的baby就会是白色的。

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20070615

Chiyoda, Japan, 1977
  H. Edward Kim

During a rice planting festival in Japan, the women of Chiyoda stoop and plant in unison while drummers and bamboo-clacking musicians set the tempo for the accompanying pipers. As the dance master leads the troupe, he calls out, "What flower blooms in the front field? Rice flowers, money flowers, flowers of perfect virtue."
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Day of the Rice God," January 1982, National Geographic magazine)

Chiyoda,小日本,1977
在小日本的一个种稻节上，Chiyoda的女人排队整齐，在鼓手、敲竹手和风笛手的伴奏下种稻子。领舞者唱道：“什么花在前面地里开放？稻花、钱花、美德花”

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20070616

Siberia, Russia, 2002
  Mark Thiessen

A Russian smokejumper leaps from an Antonov An-2 biplane to battle wildfires in a Siberian forest.
Every summer 4,000 smokejumpers from Avialesookhrana, Russia’s aerial forest protection service, patrol two billion acres (809 million hectares) of the largest coniferous forest in the world extinguishing thousands of the region’s 20,000 to 35,000 annual wildfires.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Russian Smokejumpers, " August 2002, National Geographic magazine)

西伯利亚,俄国,2002

一位俄罗斯空降森林灭火员从一架Antonov An-2双翼飞机上跳下，要去扑灭西伯利亚森林的野火。

每年夏天，俄罗斯的航空森林保护局的4000位来自Avialesookhrana的空降森林灭火员，巡逻着8.09亿公顷的世界上最大的针叶林，扑灭了上千起野火。

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20070617

Madagascar, 2000
Photograph by Lynn Johnson
Like the pillars at the entrance of an ancient Roman ruin, a stand of baobab trees frames a dirt road in Madagascar.
Found in the savannas of Africa and India, the baobab is a godsend to locals who use nearly every part of the tree for food, medicine, and even shelter.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Nature’s RX,” April 2000, National Geographic magazine)

马达加斯加，2000

就象古罗马废墟入口处的立柱一样，一排面包树框出一条马达加斯加的泥路来。

源于非洲和印度的面包树，对当地是一种天赐之物，它的每个部分可以被使用起来：食物、药物甚至作为蔽身处。

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20070618

Denmark, 1998
Photograph by Sisse Brimberg
Graffiti covers the side of a ship in one of Denmark's many harbors. Vandalism is rare in this exceptionally peaceful, orderly society where a mere 2 percent of the national budget is spent on police, prisons, and courts. A common saying in the patriotic nation holds that "Denmark is a land where few have too much and even fewer have too little," a fact that they attribute to keeping the crime levels low.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Civilized Denmark," July 1998, National Geographic magazine)

丹麦,1998

丹麦的众多港口之一，涂鸦覆盖了一条船的一侧。恶意破坏的行为很少会这种意外的平静，有序的社会会用起码2%的国家预算用于警务、监狱和法院。在这个民族爱国国家里有一种普遍的说法：“丹麦是一个很少有人会拥有太多，更少一部分人会拥有太少的地方”（很绕口的说法，意思是说明贫富分化不严重），这是他们归结于犯罪率不高的一项事实。

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20070619

Paris, France, 1989
  James L. Stanfield

A man sits in Paris's Tuileries Garden flanked by colorful model sailboats, which are rented out and sailed in the park's picturesque fountains.

Located in downtown Paris along the banks of the Seine, the gardens are built on the site of an old quarry where clay for tiles, or tuileries in French, was once mined.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “The Great Revolution,” July 1989, National Geographic magazine)

巴黎,法国,1989

一个人坐在巴黎Tuileries花园里，旁边是一些五彩缤纷的模型帆船，这些是拿来出租到这个公园独特的喷泉里航行的。

坐落于巴黎市中心赛纳河畔的这个公园，所建造的地方原来是一个制造砖瓦的采石场(法语称tuileries )