 - Peru, Andes Mountains, 1995
- 2002-09-01作者：：Stephen Alvarez 点击：11 评论：0
- "As a cultural anthropologist, I [Johan Reinhard] have spent the greater part of the last 12 years studying high-altitude ceremonial sites in the Andes. During that time I have made more than a hundred ascents above 17,000 feet [5,182 meters], a
 - England, Oxford Rowing Crews, 1996
- 2002-09-02作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：9 评论：0
- "'[At Oxford University] everyone played on some team or other. [T. E. Lawrence, known later as Lawrence of Arabia,] was having none of it. I can almost see him sitting cross-legged on the floor smiling to himself while the other boys enthused a
 - Italy, Po River Plain, 2001
- 2002-09-03作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：9 评论：0
- "Sickle in hand, a seasonal worker culls weeds the hard way on the Po [River] plain, Europe's leading rice-producing region. Such hand labor is now rare on the plain, one of the few areas in Italy level enough for large-scale farming."
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 - Malheur, Oregon, Swimming Ducks, 1996
- 2002-09-04作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：9 评论：0
- Two ducks move across a lake "in a region [French-speaking] trappers called Malheur—'misfortune.' Here lakes appear and disappear, and the only break from silence may be the honking of snow geese or a distant coyote yelping into the wind.
 - Wichita, Kansas, Wolf Mom and Pup, 1997
- 2002-09-05作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：7 评论：0
- "Like humans, wolves display a variety of temperaments and psychological quirks. Their family structure more closely resembles ours than do those of many primate societies. Loyalty and affection toward kin are two of a wolf's most observable cha
 - Costa Rica, Katydid Shadows, 1998
- 2002-09-06作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：8 评论：0
- "Life comes to light when Piotr Naskrecki illuminates a sheet in the Costa Rican rain forest. The katydid he grasps is new to science. What do we know about biodiversity? 'We find new species every night.'"
—From "The Variety o
 - French Polynesia, Tiki Village Dancer, 1996
- 2002-09-07作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：5 评论：0
- A Polynesian dancer performs for guests at Tiki Village, on Moorea, "where the native culture is packaged for tourist consumption. With tourism now its main hope for economic self-reliance, French Polynesia must nearly triple its 170,000 visitor
 - San Diego, California, Trampoline Inventor, 1997
- 2002-09-08作者：：Karen Kasmauski 点击：7 评论：0
- "A handstand is child's play for lifelong gymnast George Nissen, entertaining his grandson Jake in San Diego. Inventor of the trampoline, he is still launching new products at age 83. 'People think I'm nuts,' he says. 'But gee, I could have 20 y
 - California, Sequoia Forest Fire, 1995
- 2002-09-09作者：：Raymond Gehman 点击：8 评论：0
- "Hot enough to burn surface duff so seeds can grow but not so hot that it kills large trees, a 13-acre [5.3-hectare] prescribed fire is just what the doctor ordered. 'We're trying to get fire back in the ecosystem,' says Steve Sackett, who did r
 - Africa, Bushman Trance, 1997
- 2002-09-10作者：：Chris Johns 点击：9 评论：0
- "Empowered by a trance, an old man lays hands on a girl to draw out what he sees as a spiritual sickness that drove her to hoard meat. Attended by tourists who pay to watch such ceremonies, this ritual helps sustain Bushman communities, bringing
 - New York, New York, Statue Of Liberty, 1954
- 2002-09-11作者：：David S. Boyer 点击：9 评论：0
- "'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ...'
"Since 1886 the Statue of Liberty, bearing Emma Lazarus's words of welcome on its base, has held aloft a torch in New York Harbor. Popular subscription by Frenchmen bought the stat
 - Kyoto, Japan, Moso Bamboo Grove, 1998
- 2002-09-12作者：：Sam Abell 点击：11 评论：0
- "My favorite place [at Saiho-ji Temple] became the quiet moso bamboo grove at the back of the garden. The vertical cylinders of bamboo rose from the forest floor in a clean, strong way. But the foreground was a dry blanket of dull bamboo leaves.
 - Maine, Drying Flowers, 1988
- 2002-09-13作者：：Sam Abell 点击：10 评论：0
- "Flowers hang in a drying attic at Sabbathday Lake, which has maintained an herb business since 1799. Shaker communities were primarily agrarian and, thanks to the care lavished on crops and livestock, exemplars of productivity."
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 - Virginia, Monticello Garden, 1991
- 2002-09-14作者：：Sam Abell 点击：11 评论：0
- "Masterful at gardening as well as statecraft, Thomas Jefferson tended plants from the Old World and the New. His garden at Monticello, restored in the 1980s, was his passion. 'No occupation is so delightful to me,' he wrote, 'as the culture of
 - Botswana, Okavango Cheetah Baby, 1998
- 2002-09-15作者：：Chris Johns 点击：9 评论：0
- "Still just a prince, a rare king cheetah (worth [U.S.] $25,000) is the result of a recessive gene. Except for darker elongated spots, kings are genetically identical to other cheetahs."
—From "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands
 - Papua New Guinea, Huli Warrior, 1998
- 2002-09-16作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：8 评论：0
- "Ready to rumble—or at least looking the part—a Huli warrior ... glowers during a festival in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. 'Here men are objects of beauty,' says anthropologist Nancy Sullivan. 'To be masculine is to be well mad
 - Virginia, Misty Reenactment, 1997
- 2002-09-17作者：：Sam Abell 点击：11 评论：0
- "A fog of uncertainty hung over the Union when soldiers—like this horseman in a reenactment near Cedar Mountain, Virginia—returned from the nation's bloodiest war. ... The peace held, and artists like Winslow Homer filled their work
 - South Africa, Sick Child, 1997
- 2002-09-18作者：：Chris Johns 点击：8 评论：0
- "Losing the peace as well as the war, veterans who fought with the South African Army against Namibian independence languish in 'a place of stones and thorns,' a tent city in Schmidtsdrift. At the camp clinic a girl bundles a child sick with TB
 - Alaska, Noatak River Valley, 2000
- 2002-09-19作者：：Sam Abell 点击：13 评论：0
- "[Walking across the tundra] an owl and I surprised each other. It flew up abruptly but then didn't fly off. Instead, it silently circled my head several times at close range. I didn't move until the owl flew away to the horizon."
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 - Canada, Bucking Bronco, 1999
- 2002-09-20作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：7 评论：0
- Saddle bronc riding is one of the classic events of the rodeo. A cowboy must have balance and stamina to remain on the bucking bronco.
—Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Rodeos—Behind the Chutes," Septembe
 - South Africa, Cape Peninsula, 1996
- 2002-09-21作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：9 评论：0
- The Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet at the end of the Cape Peninsula, a popular tourist attraction in South Africa.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "The Fairest Cape," March/April 1997, National Geographic Tra
 - Denton, Montana, Football Team, 1999
- 2002-09-22作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：8 评论：0
- The Denton High School football team huddles during the homecoming game. "'It's nothing to drive 250 miles [402 kilometers] to a game or dance,' says a Missouri Breaks resident. 'That's how you find things out here.'"
(Photographed while
 - Agra, India, Taj Mahal Reflection, 1996
- 2002-09-23作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：12 评论：0
- "Reflecting the passions of Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, the Taj Mahal in Agra was built in the mid-1600s as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Later he was buried beside her. Covering most of India—and known under Shah Jahan's grandfather Akb
 - Maui, Hawaii, Maui Watershed, 1998
- 2002-09-24作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：11 评论：0
- "Defenseless natives, lobelias and greenswords flourish in Maui's Pu'u Kukui Watershed preserve, where they're protected from introduced pigs, goats, and deer. Hawaii's plants evolved in the absence of indigenous browsing mammals and therefore b
 - Congo, Léfini Faunal Reserve, 1998
- 2002-09-25作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：11 评论：0
- "A gentle bite by Kola, leader of a group reintroduced to the wild at Léfini, is a message that rehabilitator Despina Chronopoulos understands to mean: Leave us alone now. Chronopoulos sees her role as 'something between a mother and a bo
 - New York, Bunny X-ray, 1998
- 2002-09-26作者：：Erik Freeland 点击：10 评论：0
- "Veterinarian Shannon Parsons studies abdominal x-rays of a rabbit with bloody diarrhea. After diagnosing an intestinal infection, she prescribed medicine and fluids. Four days later Snowflake was fine."
—From "Saving Lives in
 - Pennsylvania, Aspen Farms, 1991
- 2002-09-27作者：：Sam Abell 点击：9 评论：0
- "The corn is high at Aspen Farms, a 1.5-acre [0.6-hectare] oasis in West Philadelphia, where a mural painted on an abandoned warehouse adds a bucolic touch. More than 350 such community gardens flourish under the Philadelphia Green program. Furn
 - Petra, Jordan, Bedouin Lookout, 1998
- 2002-09-28作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：11 评论：0
- "Lookouts on a ledge, Bedouins watch as a group of tourists admire Al Khazneh (the Treasury), whose function in Nabataean times is still unknown. Spurred by Jordan's peace treaty with Israel, tourism to Petra is up tenfold since 1991, boosting t
 - China, Foot Binding, 1998
- 2002-09-29作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：9 评论：0
- "A small foot on a woman is a beautiful foot, said an ancient Chinese tradition. That aesthetic led millions of parents, including those of 79-year-old Xiao Xou-Xiang, to bind their daughters' feet. The practice, now illegal, required breaking t
 - Massachusetts, North End Alley, 1999
- 2002-09-30作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：9 评论：0
- "North End alleys that once rang with the shouts of immigrant children are quieter now, as the area's Italian-American community dwindles and ages."
—From "Boston's North Enders," October 2000, National Geographic magazine
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