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A decade after the demise of the Soviet Union and its immense bioweapons industry, vials of plague germs are still kept in an old pea can at a biological institute in Kazakhstan. Until recently, the facility had little security.

Children hunt for wood scraps at a brick factory iin Kabul Febuary 9, 2002.

Praying vigil to cleans the evil spirits of the island in the wake of the Sari Club bombing bombed on October 12, 2002, in Kuta, killing nearly 200 and injuring over 300, most of whome were foreigners. Bali, Indonesia.

A patient at the Marastoon Mental Hospital in the Afshar area of Kabul, Afghanistan. Other than some financial assistance from the ICRC little other funding is available for the twenty women in the only metal hospital in Kabul. Nearly all the women…

Refugees. Zahra, 28, and her daughter Maleka, 6 months, sit among the 800 year old ruined minarets where they will sleep for the night. Having just arrived on a truck from Nemroaz, Zahra and her family of five where left in Herat and are homeless. As…

Portrait of laborers who work in the Khojak Tunnel in Shela Bagh, Pakistan, when doing repairs to the Chaman - Quetta line through the Khojak Pass.

RIDING THE BIG WHEEL. PHOTO TOM PIETRASIK BOMBAY, INDIA. JUNE 22ND 2002 EVERY EVENING, LOCALS TOGETHER WITH TOURISTS FROM ACROSS INDIA, GATHER AT BOMBAY'S FAMOUS JUHU BEACH. AT A TIME OF NATIONAL COMMUNAL TENSION, THIS COSMOPOLITAN GATHERING…

ONE OF THE MANY ATTRACTIONS THAT LINE THE BEACH. BOMBAY, INDIA. DECEMBER 28TH 2002 EVERY EVENING, LOCALS TOGETHER WITH TOURISTS FROM ACROSS INDIA, GATHER AT BOMBAY'S FAMOUS JUHU BEACH. AT A TIME OF NATIONAL COMMUNAL TENSION, THIS COSMOPOLITAN…

Pagan festivals, held annually, have Christian overtones. There are no priests or working churches in the valleys. Every village has an elder with priest-like powers.

This is the highest settlement in Europe and these people live in 12th century medieval towers. There is only one road in and it is covered with bandits. This road is only open for a few months because winters last 8 months.