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  • Indians bathe in the holy Ganges river December 9, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Indians wash in the holy Ganges river in the early morning fog December 10, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the holy city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Indians wash clothes along the holy Ganges river December 10, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the holy city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An Indian prays in the holy Ganges river December 9, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An Indian prays in the holy Ganges river December 9, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • The Ganges river is shown in the early morning fog December 10, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the holy city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An Indian prays in the holy Ganges river December 9, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • The Ganges river is shown in the early morning fog December 10, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the holy city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An Indian swims in the Ganges river December 9, 2001 in Varanasi, India. The late George Harrison, a longtime devotee of Hinduism, reportedly left over a million dollars to build a temple in the holy city of Varanasi according to Hare Krishna devotees. The news came as hundreds of Harrison fans still waited expectantly by the banks of the River Ganges for his ashes to arrive, amid confusion on how they were to be scattered. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Camel traders from India water ther livestock at the largest camel fair in the world in Pushkar, India in the state of Rajasthan November 27, 2001. Thousands of camels and traders come to the annual event which some say have been going on for centuries.. (Getty Images/Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Camel traders from India water ther livestock at the largest camel fair in the world in Pushkar, India in the state of Rajasthan November 27, 2001. Thousands of camels and traders come to the annual event which some say have been going on for centuries.. (Getty Images/Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • A young sorghum seed struggles to grow in the region of Affole in Mauritania where farmers who were once nomads built a dam. Successive droughts and the attractions of settled life have reduced that figure of nomadic herders to about 10%. Almost half of Mauritanians live in the capital, Nouakchott, which was no more than a coastal village fifty years ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Local Senegalesetraders prepare for the days harvest of fish to be brought by local fishermen in the town of St. Louis in Senegal. West Africa has suffered massive overfishing by foreign fishing fleets, with local small fishing boats forced to fish further and further out to sea or to concentrate their activities in sensitive coastal areas. In the last 45 years, foreign vessels, caught an estimated 80 percent of the fish taken from West African waters. The coastal nations took home the remaining 20 percent. And their share may get smaller..(Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Local Mauritanian and Senegalese fishermen bring in the days harvest near the capital of Nouakchott in Mauritania. West Africa has suffered massive overfishing by foreign fishing fleets, with local small fishing boats forced to fish further and further out to sea or to concentrate their activities in sensitive coastal areas. In the last 45 years, foreign vessels, caught an estimated 80 percent of the fish taken from West African waters. The coastal nations took home the remaining 20 percent. And their share may get smaller. (Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • A Mauritanian makes his way on one of the few isolated roads in a country primarily made up of low-lying desert. During the recurrent droughts of the 1970s and 80s, many nomads were forced into the urban capital of Nouakchott. Now nearly half the population resides there. (Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Senegalese traders feed their horses at sunrise before the local fishermen have brought in the days harvest in the town of St. Louis in Senegal. West Africa has suffered massive overfishing by foreign fishing fleets, with local small fishing boats forced to fish further and further out to sea or to concentrate their activities in sensitive coastal areas. In the last 45 years, foreign vessels, caught an estimated 80 percent of the fish taken from West African waters. The coastal nations took home the remaining 20 percent. And their share may get smaller..(Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Local Mauritanian and Senegalese fishermen bring in the days harvest to local traders who wait on the beach near the capital of Nouakchott in Mauritania. West Africa has suffered massive overfishing by foreign fishing fleets, with local small fishing boats forced to fish further and further out to sea or to concentrate their activities in sensitive coastal areas. In the last 45 years, foreign vessels, caught an estimated 80 percent of the fish taken from West African waters. The coastal nations took home the remaining 20 percent. And their share may get smaller..(Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • A Malawian fisherman shows off one of the bigger fish he caught after attempting to catch a miniscule amount of fish to feed his family in the village of Mtema Nyema in the Phalombe District which is east of Blantyre, Malawi, July 3, 2002. After the droughts and flooding in the last year, there is a massive ongoing food shortage in the region and many farmers have been forced to fish the small ponds in search of food. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • A Malawian fisherman stands on the parched earth near where he was trying to catch fish in the village of Mtema Nyema in the Phalombe District which is east of Blantyre, Malawi, July 3, 2002. After the droughts and flooding in the last year, there is a massive ongoing food shortage in the region and many farmers have been forced to fish the small ponds in search of food. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Angolan children attempt to surf on their hand made surf boards which they carved out of driftwood after they watched French foreigners surfing on the beaches outside of the capital of Luanda in this file photo. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has led Angola since 1979, said he would not run in presidential elections planned for next year. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An isolated canoe makes its way across Srinagar's Dal Lake in the troubled state of Kashmir Sunday, November 18, 2001. Kashmir's beauty is unmatched and once had a thriving tourism industry but because of the war, it has come to a virtual and complete halt. The war in Kashmir has been going on since 1989 when militant organizations chose to fight for secession from India and now the war in Afghanistan has made the region even more volatile . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Kashmiri men sell their vegetables at a floating market in the early hours before sunrise on Dal Lake in the troubled summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24, 2001. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Kashmiris take a Sunday afternoon "shikari" or gondola on Dal Lake with the Himalayas as a backdrop in Srinigar, February 10, 2002 in the Indian held state of Kashmir. India and Pakistan have already fought three wars over Kashmir and are the brink again as they amass their troops along the Line of Control. (Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Kashmiri men sell their vegetables at a floating market in the early hours before sunrise on Dal Lake in the troubled summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar India, November 24, 2001. In the background, echoing through the nearby mountains, gunshots and fighting could be heard. Kashmir was once a tourist hotspot but now vendors struggle to survive in a place that has seen nearly 1000 civilians killed this year alone and 1,765 wounded in a brutal conflict that the United Nations calls the most dangerous place in the world. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An isolated canoe makes its way across Srinagar's Dal Lake in the troubled state of Kashmir Sunday, November 18, 2001. Kashmir's beauty is unmatched and once had a thriving tourism industry but because of the war, it has come to a virtual and complete halt. The war in Kashmir has been going on since 1989 when militant organizations chose to fight for secession from India and now the war in Afghanistan has made the region even more volatile . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images) By photographer Ami Vitale
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