 - Tuscany, Italy, Olive Oil, 1996
- 2002-07-01作者：：Ira Block 点击：7 评论：0
- "Century-old ceramic urns store Italian olive oil, made at this Tuscan estate for nearly 1,200 years. Valued through the ages for food, fuel, salve, and sacrament, the olive's liquid gold remains unsurpassed among oils."
—Photograph
 - Pennsylvania, Robot Operation, 1996
- 2002-07-02作者：：George Steinmetz 点击：7 评论：0
- "Off the factory floor and into the operating theater, a modified industrial robot hangs poised over an obliging skeleton in Pittsburgh's Shadyside Hospital. During hip replacement surgery, ROBODOC drills a cavity in the femur (held by steel bra
 - South Africa, Cape Town Waterfront, 1996
- 2002-07-03作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：6 评论：0
- Twilight settles on the renovated Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, where visitors find a lively mix of shops, restaurants, jazz clubs, and hotels, as well as a working harbor.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "The F
 - Nebraska, Patriotic Poodle, 1996
- 2002-07-04作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：7 评论：0
- These colors don't run: A poodle strolls through a Fourth of July parade.
(Photograph taken on asssignment for, but not published in, "Nebraska," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)
 - Ahmedabad, India, Weaving Class, 1997
- 2002-07-05作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：5 评论：0
- "In history's shadow, students unwind hand-spun yarn at Gujarat Vidyapith, a coeducational school founded by Gandhi in 1920. One key component of the school's program is weaving khadi, a coarse fabric that became a symbol of self-reliance during
 - India, Urban Traffic, 1996
- 2002-07-06作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：4 评论：0
- A young child catches a ride as Indian women pull a cart through urban traffic.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)
 - French Polynesia, Bora Bora Aerial, 1996
- 2002-07-07作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：6 评论：0
- "Lacy breakers lap the coral reef that rings Bora-Bora, an ancient sunken volcano 165 miles [266 kilometers] northwest of Tahiti. With sugar white beaches edging its electric blue-lagoon, the island fits everyone's image of a South Seas paradise
 - Denver, Colorado, Suburban Prairie Dog, 1997
- 2002-07-08作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：6 评论：0
- "Burgeoning Denver suburbs loom behind a black-tailed prairie dog. The long-persecuted species may be at a crossroads. [In March 1999] the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began a nine-month review to decide if blacktails are an endangered species
 - New York, Green Iguana, 1998
- 2002-07-09作者：：Erik Freeland 点击：8 评论：0
- "Ryoku, a green iguana, breathes anesthetic gas that keeps him asleep during surgery. The doctor successfully removed a cyst from the base of his tail. She also prescribed a diet of vegetables."
—From "Saving Lives in the Anima
 - Petra, Jordan, Nabataean Sands, 1998
- 2002-07-10作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：8 评论：0
- "Reclining on a rooftop carved two millennia ago, a Bedouin surveys the realm of the Nabataeans, whose ancient capital beckons from the sands of southern Jordan. Forgotten for centuries, Petra still echoes with mysteries of the past; this immens
 - Solomon Islands, Kolombangara Island Ferry, 2002
- 2002-07-11作者：：Ted Chamberlain 点击：9 评论：0
- Not far from the newfound wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109, a ferry closes in on Kolombangara Island's Ringi Cove.
On the night a World War II Japanese destroyer collided with Kennedy's boat, the island swarmed with some 10,000 Japanese troops. To
 - Botswana, Snacking Women, 1997
- 2002-07-12作者：：Chris Johns 点击：4 评论：0
- "Women farmworkers near Ghanzi, Botswana, still go into the bush to gossip and snack on wild plants. Gathering once provided 70 percent of the Bushman diet, but ancient scrubland has been converted to cattle ranches. Now government relief provid
 - Ferrara, Italy, Palio of Ferrara, 2001
- 2002-07-13作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：5 评论：0
- "Traditions abound along the Po [River], though not without a modern twist. During the Palio of Ferrara—A 700-year-old festival centered around a horse race—costumed locals parade to pay 'homage' at Este Castle."
—From &
 - Paris, France, Eiffel Tower Fireworks, 1988
- 2002-07-14作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：6 评论：0
- "Fireworks flash above the Eiffel Tower, finished in 1889 to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution."
—From "France: Bicentennial of the Great Revolution," July 1989, National Geographic magazine
 - Massachusetts, Athlete'S Foot Fungus, 1997
- 2002-07-15作者：：Darlyne A. Murawski 点击：6 评论：0
- "Thriving in the warm, moist environment created by shoes and socks, this fungus [Trichophyton mentagrophytes] is a common cause of athlete's foot."
—From "Body Beasts," December 1998, National Geographic magazine
 - Montana, Elk Refuge, 1999
- 2002-07-16作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：4 评论：0
- An elk surveys its territory in Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "The Missouri Breaks," May 1999, National Geographic magazine)
 - Kashmir, India, Daughters of Faith, 1998
- 2002-07-17作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：5 评论：0
- "Asiya Andrabi exhorts the Dukhtarani-Millat—Daughters of Faith—to press for Kashmir's union with Pakistan. She continues despite a year and a half spent in an Indian prison for such secessionist agitation."
—From "
 - Salt Lake City, Utah, Robot Paddle Practice, 1996
- 2002-07-18作者：：George Steinmetz 点击：5 评论：0
- "Obedient to its operator, a master-slave robot in a Salt Lake City warehouse draws back its paddle in tandem with engineer Jon Price, whose motions are measured by sensors and relayed via computer. SARCOS, Greek for 'flesh,' matches most human
 - Alaska Range, Mountain Bike Traverse, 1996
- 2002-07-19作者：：Bill Hatcher 点击：7 评论：0
- "Forced to dismount on soft ice and slog up a 6,000-foot-high [1,829-meter-high] pass, three adventurers press on in their effort to traverse the rugged Alaska Range by mountain bike. On their seven-week, 775-mile [1,247-kilometer] expedition th
 - Moon Walk, Earth's Moon, 1969
- 2002-07-20作者：：Neil Armstrong 点击：8 评论：0
- "At dawn of a two-week lunar day, Edwin Aldrin strides across a small crater near one of Eagle's foil-wrapped landing probes. Visor reflects his long black shadow, the solar wind collector, the Stars and Stripes planted by the moonwalkers, the w
 - Rome, Italy, Via Crucis, 1991
- 2002-07-21作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：8 评论：0
- "Torchlight guides the papal party along the Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, through the Colosseum. An athletic John Paul II carries the cross throughout the Good Friday procession, stopping at each of the 14 stations, which denote Christ's suf
 - India, Street Vendor, 1996
- 2002-07-22作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：5 评论：0
- A street vendor and her child sit surrounded by the statuary she sells.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)
 - South Africa, Cape Peninsula Fishing, 1996
- 2002-07-23作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：8 评论：0
- Fishers try their luck in the waters off Cape Peninsula. Table Mountain looms in the distance.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fairest Cape," March/April 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
 - Pendleton, Oregon, Tepee Village, 1999
- 2002-07-24作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：5 评论：0
- "Some rodeo cowboys are Indians and the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon celebrates them with a tepee village."
—Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Rodeos—Behind the Chutes," September 1999, National
 - Botswana, Cheetah Stranglehold, 1998
- 2002-07-25作者：：Chris Johns 点击：5 评论：0
- "Down for the count, an exhausted impala expires in a female cheetah's deadly stranglehold. Cheetahs' teeth are too small to use as daggers for large kill, but strong jaws lock around the throat of prey until the victim stops breathing."
 - Syria, Crac Des Chevaliers, 1997
- 2002-07-26作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：8 评论：0
- "[British officer T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia] succeeded in visiting 36 crusader castles, making careful notes, drawings, and photographs of what he saw. These he included in his thesis, which earned him a first class at Oxford&m
 - St. Augustine, Florida, Oceanarium, 1952
- 2002-07-27作者：：Luis Marden 点击：7 评论：0
- "A giant grouper may have looked like lunch to three resident kittens at Marineland, the world's first 'oceanarium,' opened in 1938 near St. Augustine, Florida, with the help of millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. Cats still roam the popul
 - New York, Homer Trout, 1998
- 2002-07-28作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "'My grandfather knew the man [artist Winslow Homer] well,' says Leila Wilson, nodding toward trout likely caught and mounted by Homer. ... 'Everyone has a story,' [she] recalls. 'I don't know if my Uncle Roy really baited Homer's hooks, but he
 - Sarawak, Borneo, Rappelling White Mountain, 1996
- 2002-07-29作者：：Stephen Alvarez 点击：10 评论：0
- "Big sky and deep horizons break the cave routine for Todd Burks, who rappels 300 feet [91 meters] down to the forest floor after a dramatic mountainside survey. ... Burks hoped to investigate two virgin caves he had spotted on an expedition in
 - Baena, Spain, Olives, 1996
- 2002-07-30作者：：Ira Block 点击：5 评论：0
- "The Mediterranean world has regarded the olive as sacred for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians credited the goddess Isis with teaching mankind its cultivation and uses. The Greeks believed that Athena, goddess of wisdom, bestowed the ol
 - Massachusetts, North End Traffic, 1999
- 2002-07-31作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：8 评论：0
- "Magnet for immigrants since its settlement in 1630, the North End is evolving from ethnic enclave to haven for young professionals who crave historic charm close to downtown offices."
—From "Boston's North Enders," Octobe
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