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Where: Victoria Land, Antarctica
When: 1996
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
Ice caves allow scientists to study glaciers from the inside. Tiny microbes—surviving in suspended animation beneath the ice—have been discovered within some ice caves.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Antarctic Dry Valleys," October 1998, National Geographic magazine)
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2004-6-15 03:29 上传
Where: Rural India
When: 2002
Photographer: William Albert Allard
"Upper caste aversion to killing cattle, eating beef, and handling animal hides gives Untouchables a monopoly in the tanning business. At a rural tannery (pictured) a member of the Chamar leatherworking caste softens water buffalo skin."
—From "Untouchable," June 2003, National Geographic magazine
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2004-6-17 01:56 上传
Where: Dos Palos, California
When: 1992
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
"Shaking bees from thriving hives to weaker ones, Jim Robertson of Dos Palos, California, needs a sturdy back as well as fluency in bee biology. Neither trait protects against beestings—or human barbs. 'A guy came up to me once and said, "I got a boy, he's not too bright, and he don't get along with people—but you ought to hire him. He'd make a real good beekeeper,"' says Jim with a laugh."
—From "America’s Beekeepers: Hives for Hire," May 1993, National Geographic magazine