"With helicopter fuel scarce in the post-Soviet economy, firefighters who get left behind when the job is done may have to wait days for a ride out. But even after budget cuts have halved their ranks, an uncertain future doesn't scare men who drop from the sky to do battle with fire."
—From "Russian Smokejumpers," August 2002, National Geographic magazine
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Where: Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii
When: 1997
Photographer: William R. Curtsinger
“First flight is the last flight for one out of ten fledgling [albatrosses]. The unfortunate novice fliers are often the scrawniest ones or those that try to ride whispers of wind too weak to carry them over the danger zone.”
—From “Tigers: In for the Kill,” November 1999, National Geographic magazine
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Where: Bembe, Benin, Africa
When: 2001
Photographer: Jodi Cobb
"Though forced marriage has been denounced as a form of slavery by the United Nati##被过滤##, and though virtually all countries have established legal minimum ages for marriage, local customs continue in defiance of the law. In the village of Bembe, in the West African nation of Benin, women and children gather before their chief. 'Few of the girls in the village will reach 18 before they're married,' says Hector Gnonlonfin, founder of Tomorrow Children, a shelter for exploited children. 'We found a ten-year-old schoolgirl here who already had a husband.'"
—From "Inhuman Profit," September 2003, National Geographic magazine
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