Re: 国家地理2004.11.21

Jerusalem, Israel 1984 James L. Stanfield Four Orthodox Jewish students color with crayons at school. They wear yarmulkes on their heads and their hair in traditional earlocks. (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Israel: Searching for the Center," July 1985, National Geographic magazine)

South of the Gulf of Ob, Siberia, Russia 1996 Maria Stenzel "Home to seven people and eleven dogs, the [Serotetta family's chum, or tent,] stays warm in subzero weather with the aid of an iron stove vented through a smoke hole above. Space and social life are highly regulated within the chum, and the sewing materials will be stored in a special area reserved for women." —From "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine

Richmond, Virginia 1986 Sam Abell "Patroling National Guardsmen take sounding at 17th and Main as the muddy James flows gently through the capital of Virginia. Richmond's old Shockoe Bottom district lay under as much as 12 feet [3.7 meters] of water when the flood of 1985 crested and rolled on to the sea." 桭rom the National Geographic book Nature on the Rampage, 1986

Altamaha River, Georgia 1997 Peter Essick "Wild creatures [like these sandpipers] find refuge all along the Altamaha, taking comfort in a river left to its free-flowing ways." (Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Easy Ways of the Altamaha," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea 1999 David Doubilet "Hopping along with clawlike fins, a sea moth probes with its long nose for food in the soft bottom, levitating briefly to scout its territory." —From "Coral Eden," January 1999, National Geographic magazine