Sunday May 27, 2007, Worthington, Minnesota, USA

Migrant workers in Minnesota

Worthington, a small town in south west Minnesota, is a center for immigrant labor, both "legal" and undocumented. Mexicans, Latin Americans, Laotians, and many others come to the area with their families to work in the meat processing plants, a job that many American born do not want.

Hispanic parishioners in Minnesota

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Sunday May 27, 2007, Worthington, Minnesota, USA

Migrant workers in Minnesota

Worthington, a small town in south west Minnesota, is a center for immigrant labor, both "legal" and undocumented. Mexicans, Latin Americans, Laotians, and many others come to the area with their families to work in the meat processing plants, a job that many American born do not want.

A Mexican resident of the town prepares tacos for people relaxing in the park on their day off.

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Wednesday July 11, 2007, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Massachusetts town holds on to Kerouac's memory

Jack Kerouac, the author of "On The Road" and many other novels, grew up in the 1920's and 30's in Lowell, Massachusetts, a former working class mill town north of Boston which he often referred to in his writings.

A local resident smokes a cigarette on Merrimack Street, the main downtown road where Kerouac spent time. In the background is the city's newspaper building, The Sun, where Kerouac worked as a sports writer.

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Sunday May 20, 2007, Washington, D.C., USA

Remembering the US fallen in iraq and Afghanistan

Senior military officers and families of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan attend a memorial ceremony for the dead called ""A Time of Remembrance" on the Washington Monument grounds. Many of dead men children attend the somber event.

A child wearing a medal salutes in honor of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Tuesday September 11, 2001, New York, New York, USA

A businessman who has just escaped from the falling rubble of the World Trade Towers arrives in fresh air a few blocks away to grab a cigarette and a bottle of water.

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Saturday July 14, 2007, Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

Hillary Clinton campaigns in New Hampshire with hopeful future First Gentleman Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton joins his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire to support her run for President.

Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton mingle with supporters and well-wishers.

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Saturday July 14, 2007, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Hillary Clinton campaigns in New Hampshire with hopeful future First Gentleman Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton joins his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire to support her run for President.

Hillary Clinton glad-hands well-wishers and supporters as Secret Service agents stand at-the-ready near her flanks.

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Sunday May 20, 2007, Washington, D.C., USA

Remembering the US fallen in iraq and Afghanistan

Senior military officers and families of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan attend a memorial ceremony for the dead called ""A Time of Remembrance" on the Washington Monument grounds. Many of dead men children attend the somber event.

Marine Commandant James Conway attends the ceremony for soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan wars

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Saturday March 17, 2007, New York, New York, USA

Giuliani marches in St. Patrick's day parade

Revelers came to watch the 246th parade, pressing against police barricades to cheer marching bands and men and women in uniform. The event typically draws 2 million spectators and 150,000 marchers.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani greets Cardinal Egan while marching in the 2007 St Patrick's Day Parade while campaigning for the Republican Party nomination for President.

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Friday August 17, 2007, New York, New York, USA

VIP watching at Brooke Astor's funeral

Power brokers and working class New Yorkers alike were drawn to the funeral of philanthropist Brooke Astor held at St. Thomas church on Fifth Avenue. The legendary New York socialite died Monday of pneumonia at age 105, following declining health and family infighting over her care and financial legacy. During her lifetime, Astor gave away nearly $200 million to the New York Public Library, Carnegie Hall, the Museum of Natural History, Central Park, the Bronx Zoo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, children's programs in Harlem and other causes.

Guests exiting St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue

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Sunday June 17, 2007, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, USA

The barren landscape of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve

The Kokalik river, in extreme north western Alaska, winds its way through the National Petroleum Reserve, thirty five million acres of untouched wilderness that was set aside by Congress in 1925 for future oil and mineral exploration. The area around the Kokalik river, in the Utokok uplands, is the calving grounds for the migratory western arctic caribou herd, which numbers around 500,000 animals. Both environmental activists and oil companies have their eye on the area, which is currently under BLM control.

Karen Jettmar, an environmental activist trying to preserve the area, watches with concern as a rare helicopter flies overhead, most likely chartered by an oil company.

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Tuesday June 19, 2007, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, USA

The barren landscape of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve

The Kokalik river, in extreme north western Alaska, winds its way through the National Petroleum Reserve, thirty five million acres of untouched wilderness that was set aside by Congress in 1925 for future oil and mineral exploration. The area around the Kokalik river, in the Utokok uplands, is the calving grounds for the migratory western arctic caribou herd, which numbers around 500,000 animals. Both environmental activists and oil companies have their eye on the area, which is currently under BLM control.

A canoer paddles down the river, towards the artic sea, which is just across from Siberia.

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Friday April 6, 2007, Bronx, New York, USA

Good Friday procession in the Bronx

On Good Friday, two days before Easter, St Joseph's Church in the Bronx leads a traditional procession through the streets of the Crotona neighborhood in which all twelve stations of the cross during the crucifixion of Jesus are reenacted.

Residents of the neighborhood watch the Good Friday procession pass by in the Bronx.

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Friday April 13, 2007, Three Points, Arizona, USA

Minutemen volunteers search for illegal migrants

Thirty miles from the Mexican border, Minutemen volunteers from across America spend time patrolling a large private ranch in the Altar Valley of southern Arizona, searching for "illegal" migrants making their way north through the harsh desert terrain. Although most of the Minutemen carry guns, they are under strict instructions to not chase or apprehend migrants, but instead to report sightings to the border patrol.

Patrols carry with them bright headlights, which they use to light up any migrants crossing through the desert.

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Tuesday May 15, 2007, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Guantanamo detention center

The US Navy base in Guantanamo, known as Gitmo, has become a detention center to deal with people who act as unlawful enemy combatants, operating outside any internationally recognized military, without uniforms, military ranks or other things that make them party to the Geneva Conventions. On June 4, military judges dismissed charges against a detainee accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The U.S. military's cases against the alleged al-Qaida figures dissolved because the government had failed to establish jurisdiction. They were the only two of the roughly 380 prisoners charged with crimes, and the rulings stand to complicate efforts by the US to try about 80 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban figures in military courts. The dismissal of the cases could end the war-crimes trial system hurriedly set up by Congress and President George W. Bush after the Supreme Court threw out the previous system. The dismissal has "huge" impact because none of the detainees has been found to be an "unlawful" enemy combatant. The Military Commissions Act specifically says that only those classified as "unlawful" enemy combatants can face war trials here. The Gitmo prison camps have been criticized by the international community for their harsh treatment of mostly Muslim prisoners.

A military policeman stands guard over a row of cells holding "enemy combatant" detainees in Camp 5 at Guantanamo Bay US Navy base.

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Sunday May 27, 2007, Worthington, Minnesota, USA

Migrant workers in Minnesota

Worthington, a small town in south west Minnesota, is a center for immigrant labor, both "legal" and undocumented. Mexicans, Latin Americans, Laotians, and many others come to the area with their families to work in the meat processing plants, a job that many American born do not want.

A Laotian refugee, and now a meat packer at the main employer in town, Swift, watches over his children in front of his house.

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Saturday April 14, 2007, Three Points, Arizona, USA

Minutemen volunteers search for illegal migrants

Thirty miles from the Mexican border, Minutemen volunteers from across America spend time patrolling a large private ranch in the Altar Valley of southern Arizona, searching for "illegal" migrants making their way north through the harsh desert terrain. Although most of the Minutemen carry guns, they are under strict instructions to not chase or apprehend migrants, but instead to report sightings to the border patrol.

Minutemen who have just called in a report of a group of migrants crossing through the desert waits for the border patrol to pick up their track.

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Saturday April 14, 2007, Three Points, Arizona, USA

Minutemen volunteers search for illegal migrants

Thirty miles from the Mexican border, Minutemen volunteers from across America spend time patrolling a large private ranch in the Altar Valley of southern Arizona, searching for "illegal" migrants making their way north through the harsh desert terrain. Although most of the Minutemen carry guns, they are under strict instructions to not chase or apprehend migrants, but instead to report sightings to the border patrol.

A Minuteman patrol inspects a large pile of trash and discarded clothes left behind in the middle of the desert by groups of migrants passing through on foot.

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Wednesday May 16, 2007, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Guantanamo detention center

The US Navy base in Guantanamo, known as Gitmo, has become a detention center to deal with people who act as unlawful enemy combatants, operating outside any internationally recognized military, without uniforms, military ranks or other things that make them party to the Geneva Conventions. On June 4, military judges dismissed charges against a detainee accused of chauffeuring Osama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The U.S. military's cases against the alleged al-Qaida figures dissolved because the government had failed to establish jurisdiction. They were the only two of the roughly 380 prisoners charged with crimes, and the rulings stand to complicate efforts by the US to try about 80 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban figures in military courts. The dismissal of the cases could end the war-crimes trial system hurriedly set up by Congress and President George W. Bush after the Supreme Court threw out the previous system. The dismissal has "huge" impact because none of the detainees has been found to be an "unlawful" enemy combatant. The Military Commissions Act specifically says that only those classified as "unlawful" enemy combatants can face war trials here. The Gitmo prison camps have been criticized by the international community for their harsh treatment of mostly Muslim prisoners.

A Louisiana National Guardsman stationed on Guantanamo Bay for at least a year walks past his newly constructed home on the base.

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Sunday May 20, 2007, Washington, D.C., USA

Remembering the US fallen in iraq and Afghanistan

Senior military officers and families of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan attend a memorial ceremony for the dead called ""A Time of Remembrance" on the Washington Monument grounds. Many of dead men children attend the somber event.

After the ceremony for soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan wars, a grieving Deborah Smith holds a poster of her son who was killed in Iraq.

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Wednesday July 11, 2007, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Massachusetts town holds on to Kerouac's memory

Jack Kerouac, the author of "On The Road" and many other novels, grew up in the 1920's and 30's in Lowell, Massachusetts, a former working class mill town north of Boston which he often referred to in his writings.

A marble staircase at the Lowell Public Library, where Jack Kerouac spent his teenage years reading as much as he could.

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Sunday December 9, 2001

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Wednesday July 11, 2007, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Massachusetts town holds on to Kerouac's memory

Jack Kerouac, the author of "On The Road" and many other novels, grew up in the 1920's and 30's in Lowell, Massachusetts, a former working class mill town north of Boston which he often referred to in his writings.

The reflection of the Boot Cotton Mills in the Merrimack River canal. The closed factory is now a federal museum, currently exhibiting the orginal scroll of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."

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Wednesday July 11, 2007, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Massachusetts town holds on to Kerouac's memory

Jack Kerouac, the author of "On The Road" and many other novels, grew up in the 1920's and 30's in Lowell, Massachusetts, a former working class mill town north of Boston which he often referred to in his writings.

A local resident crosses the Ouellette Bridge, a crossing Kerouac would have frequently made on his way to downtown from the Centraville neighborhood where his family lived.

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Saturday July 14, 2007, Keene, New Hampshire, USA

Hillary Clinton campaigns in New Hampshire with hopeful future First Gentleman Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton joins his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire to support her run for President.

Campaign buttons play up Bill Clinton's new role as the husband of a candidate.

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