Tuesday January 25, 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

The Real Rain Man

The real life 'Rain Man' has an incredible capacity for receiving and storing information. Kim Peek can read two pages of a book at a time, retaining about 98 percent of what he read afterwards. He is also knowledgable in more than a dozen different subjects, from world and American history to sports to telephone area codes and major zip codes. Peek, who is autistic, was born without a corpus callosum -- the connecting tissue between the left and right sides of the brain.

Kim Peek reviews the names and numbers in phone books at the public library.

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Monday January 10, 2005, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

Author Norman Mailer at home

Renowned American Essayist and Novelist Norman Mailer at his home in Cape Cod.

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Tuesday November 16, 2004, New York, New York, USA

News Corp. Chairman Murdoch plans to make a pact to protect shares

73-year-old Chairman of News Corp. Rupert Murdoch talks to members of the media following a meeting with shareholders. Liberty Media's self-professed "friendly" intentions to almost double its holding in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. could turn into a hostile bid for the rival media empire. Murdoch said he can live with Liberty Media Corp. being a large shareholder of the media conglomerate if Liberty Chairman John Malone signs a pact preventing his company from raising its stake.

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August 2003, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone National Amputee Football Team

Sierra Leone's National Amputee Soccer Team. Training Fourteen Sierra Leonean amputee football players departed for the United Kingdom in late August 2003 to play their English counterparts. The Players lost their limbs during Sierra Leone's brutal decade-long civil war. The team began two years ago as a soccer club founded by amputees who only wanted an opportunity to play the game they loved. It is evolving into a tool for self-empowerment in one if the world's poorest counties. All the players occupy their country's lowest financial strada, have little opportunity for employment, and have been stigmatized by society, thus further prohibiting economic and personal advancements. The tour's goal was to bring attention to their plight. The players also wanted victory on the pitch. The tour was organized by "Children in Conflict" an NGO wanting to increase public awareness of their activities in Africa. The NGO also viewed the tour as an opportunity to use sport as a therapeutic vehicle for victims of trauma. The team failed to defeat the UK's National Amputee team. Time will tell if the exposure they recived, both in the UK and in Sierra Leone, will lead the players, and by extension all amputees in Sierra Leone, toward a more promising future. Team captain, M'byo Conteh, center, scrimmages with fellow teammates during a downpour in Freetown. The team had a one week training camp before departing to the UK. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WON FIRST PRIZE IN THE 2004 WORLD PRESS CONTEST, SPORTS FEATURES, SINGLES.

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Wednesday September 24, 2003, Kigali, Rwanda

Rwanda Genocide Testimonies

Karoli Kayirango, genocidaire: "I am guilty. What I did was evil. I have been a bad man. Those whom I have killed have relatives. The moment I meet them I will ask for forgiveness." In the spring of 1994 an estimated 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda, victims of an ethnic genocide. The media played a major role in inciting extremists from the Hutu majority to carry out the 100-day slaughter of ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. An International Criminal Tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania has been judging and sentencing to severe prison terms Hutu leaders as well as journalists who used the airwaves to incite hatred against the Tutsis. One of the radio stations, RTLM, established in April 1993, became known as "hate radio" and many of its journalists were accused of preaching ethnic hatred and encouraging Hutus, who make up about 85 percent of the population, to massacre Tutsis. The president of AVEGA, a group of women widowed by the genocide said: "I cannot measure their punishment, but the important thing is that justice is being seen to be done and the accused must accept there was a genocide in Rwanda and that they are the ones who are responsible." The genocide ended when the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front, advancing from bases in neighboring Uganda, toppled the Hutu-led government. Hundreds of thousands of Hutus, including many Interahamwe (Hutu killing squads), fled into the Democratic Republic of Congo. Adam Nadel has photographed and interviewed Rwandans who have been touched by the genocide and continue to live with its horror.

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Monday December 8, 2003, New York, New York, USA

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean speaks during a campaign fundraiser at Roseland Ballroom. Former Vice President Al Gore intends to endorse Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination, a dramatic move that could tighten Deans grip on the front-runner position.

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Friday October 15, 2004, Dreshka, Darfur, Sudan

Victims of the Darfur Crisis Speak Out

The Darfurian crisis is described by the United Nations as the world's worst current humanitarian tragedy. These portraits of Darfurians and their testimonies provide a direct connection to the conflict as we read of their tragic experience in their own words. This conflict rooted in ethnic, religious, tribal and economic causes enters a second year without any hope of resolution. This photo essay uses the faces and voices of those most affected to illustrate the reality of Darfur at the most intimate and individual level. Over the last year and a half over 1.5 million people have been displaced and an estimated 70,000 have died of famine or been killed by Sudanese militias and regular army troops. Amam Bohiger is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced person in the Darfur region. The growing violence has over a million peoples homeless in the region and in the camps in Chad. "It is too dangerous to live near the water well in town, so I stay in the mountains under the trees with my children. I have lived in the mountains since the last attack. Over a month under the trees. It takes two and a half hours to walk here for the water. Then I must return."

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Wednesday February 16, 2000, New Hampshire, USA

Bush runs for President

George W. Bush projected prior to his speaking on TV during the Primaries in his successful run for President.

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Saturday March 4, 1995, Guatemala

Train in Guatemala

Guatemalans wait for their train to depart after track work slowed their progress.

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Sunday May 25, 2003, New Mexico, USA

Horse patrol at the United States / Mexico border

Mounted US border patrol agents ride near the US/Mexico border. The mounted agents are called out when tracks are found and tracking is needed. The horses are trained to use their senses to find the illegal aliens. Agents say that the horses are much better at locating the illegals then humans.

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Sunday July 6, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA

Motorcycle in desert

People ride a motorcycle through the desert.

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Saturday April 6, 2002, Ramallah, West Bank, Israel

Palistinian boy with bullet

A boy holds a bullet that he had just picked up off the street in Ramallah he believes was dropped by a member of the IDF.

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2002, Jenin, West Bank, Israel

Torn poster of Prime Minister Arafat

A torn poster of Prime Minister Arafat lies on the ground in the West Bank city of Jenin following a withdraw of the IDF. Israel's current ruling coalition refuses to negotiate with Arafat and a significant number of previously sympathetic nations currently view Arafat as becoming more and more irrelevant.

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

Vietnam Vet cries

A man claiming to be a Vietnam Vet cries at a touring memorial wall on Memorial Day.

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2002, Ramallah, Israel

Operation of Defense Shield in Ramallah

The IDF arrest Palestinians following a stand-off in the center of the West Bank town of Ramallah during the first round of major IDF movement into area A, B and C in the spring.

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Tuesday April 2, 2002, Ramallah, West Bank, Israel

IDF arrests a Palestinian in Ramallah

A Palestinian man is taken into custody in Ramallah by a member of the IDF.

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Monday September 9, 2002, Dead Sea, Israel

Lifeguards of the Dead Sea

Lifeguards smeared with mud from the Dead Sea are hit by the last rays of sunlight as bathers float. The Dead Sea offers one of the only violence-free havens for those living in Israel and the West Bank.

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Saturday May 4, 1901, Borneo, Indonesia

Orangutan extinction

An orangutan in Borneo. Some experts predict the orangutan will be extinct in less then half a century.

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Sunday August 8, 1999, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Religious Jews

Religious Jews listen to speeches.

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Thursday February 20, 2003, Dallas, Texas, USA

Woman skates

A skater at the American Figure Skating Championships.

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Monday April 30, 2001, Pardes Hanna, Isreal

Mentally ill Holocaust survivor

A mentally ill Holocaust survivor at his hostel at Saar Menashe Hospital.

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2001, New York, New York, USA

Pulitzer Prize Winner Wynton Marsalis

Pulitzer Prize Winner Wynton Marsalis plays his horn.

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Tuesday August 20, 2002, New York, New York, USA

Artist Barton Benes

Artist Barton Benes in his studio. The drawers are filled with objects, some found and others given to him, that Benes uses to create his art.

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Monday October 11, 2004, East Darfur, Sudan

Crisis in Darfur

Members of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) wait during sunset for their broke-down truck to be fixed. The SLA is fighting the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed. It has been estimated that 50,000 have died over the last two years and hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced.

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Monday August 30, 2004, New York, New York, USA

Day one of 2004 National Republican Convention

Delegates in suits stand on the floor of the Republican National Convention which has been covered with a red carpet for the event. Republicans belittled Democratic Senator John Kerry as a shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House, opening their national convention four miles from Ground Zero of America's worst terrorist attack.

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Thursday July 29, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Final Day of the 2004 Democratic Convention

People walk past a photograph of John Kerry and John Lennon at the Democratic Party's 2004 convention. A unified and determined Democratic Party ended its convention with a ringing call to battle in November.

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Friday July 9, 2004, Beaver, West Virginia, USA

John Kerry and John Edwards campaign in West Virginia

Democratic presidential candidate supporters raise their hands at a campaign rally. Kerry and Edwards will be formally nominated later this month at the Democratic convention in Boston as the party's challengers to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the November 2nd election.

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Thursday January 1, 2004, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Senator Joseph Lieberman campaigning in New Hampshire

Senator Joseph Lieberman (Democrat-Connecticut) hosts his house warming party. Lieberman is running for the Democratic nomination for president. He is campaigning for the New Hampshire primary election on January 27.

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Thursday January 15, 2004, Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA

John Kerry campaigns in Iowa

Voters listens to Democratic presidential contender Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Kerry's poll numbers in Iowa have improved greatly over the last few days. The Iowa caucuses are to be held on January 19.

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Adam Nadel

Born 1967. Adam Nadel graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Anthropology. Adam joined Polaris in 2002, working freelance since 1999. He was previously employed as a staff photographer for the Associated Press in New York.

Adam has received national and international awards for his journalistic photography, including First Place at World Press Photo in both 2003 and 2004 for Sports Feature and Portrait Story, First in 2002 and 2004 at Pictures of the Year International for News Picture Story and Campaign Picture Story as well as Third Place Sports Picture Story in 2001 and 2003.

In 2004 Adam has had four one-man shows at locations such as The United Nations Headquarters and the Counsel on Foreign Relations. 2005 will host Nadel's first solo museum show at The William Bennett Museum of Art. The work is part of his ongoing project on civilians and warfare.

Adam lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently working on a number of projects ranging from circus to environmental landscape. He has used digital cameras since 1997.

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