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The Brutal Hills Of Sicily
In the small Sicilian farming town of Niscemi, old women wear black shawls and men carry shotguns in the trunks of their cars. Most of them are used for hunting.
Giuliano Rotondi
1.2.09
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My Obama Hajj
As someone raised on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I have to report that the actual invitation to the 2009 presidential inauguration looked a tad underwhelming.
Sam McPheeters
1.2.09
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The Dusty Ground And The Dying Koalas
Australia’s the driest inhabited country in the world, and many parts have been in a state of perpetual drought since the mid-1990s.
Dave Martin
1.2.09
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The Welsh Suicide Contagion
Bridgend rose to international fame in 2008 when a 17-year-old girl, Natasha Randall, was found hanged shortly after the new year.
Bruno Bayley
1.2.09
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Flatliner
It’s 1994 and I’m lying on a cold, hard X-Ray table in the cardiac catheterization room of the Methodist Hospital in Houston.
Anthony Perrico, Md
1.2.09
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Tears Of A Porcelain Clown Egg
Out of the blue, photographer Luke Stephenson emailed us 34 photos of eggs painted with the faces of famous clowns.
Luke Stephenson
1.2.09
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Stuck In Saskatoon
The corner of Avenue C and 20th Street West in the heart of Riversdale, Saskatoon, is in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Canada.
Lindsay Coleman
1.2.09
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Protest By Fire
Everything starts to look a bit unremarkable once you stumble upon a hospital ward full of girls who have tried, and failed, to kill themselves.
Bruno Bayley
1.2.09
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Illegal Operations
In 2006, David Matas, a prominent human rights lawyer, released a report claiming that the Chinese government was using imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners as an organ transplant supermarket.
Julian Christie
1.2.09
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An Arctic Wave Of Teenage Suicide
Relative to the size of its population, the suicide rate here is the highest on earth. And the most disturbing part of the stats? It is children and teenagers who are driving the numbers up.
Camilla Stephan
1.2.09
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Who's Hungry?
On the afternoon of June 12, 1981, a Japanese man named Issei Sagawa walked into the woods in Bois de Boulogne, France, carrying two suitcases.
Tomokazu Kosuga, Translated by Lena Oishi
TOMOKAZU KOSUGA
1.2.09
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Comfort Food
As with everything else they do, the girls in Japan take it just that little bit too far, right up to the point where it’s basically obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Tomo Kosuga
TOMOKAZU KOSUGA
1.2.09
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