- Los Angeles Police Department and street gangs- LAPD
- LAPD gang unit officers question a confirmed Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13, street gang member outside an apartment building in the Rampart area of Los Angeles, California. The gang member was later taken into custody for violating his probation for narcotics possession.
- LAPD gang unit officers question a possible street gang member about his tattoos in Los Angeles, California. The 21-year old Hispanic man was arrested after police stopped a group drinking alcohol on the sidewalk. He was later found to be carrying a false California driver's license which carries a felony charge.
- LAPD gang unit officers question a confirmed MS-13 street gang member's girl friend in the Rampart area of Los Angeles, California. The gang member was later taken into custody for violating his probation for narcotics possession. The young woman on the left was detained again the following day for violating an anti-gang injunction.
- LAPD gang unit officers question a confirmed MS-13 street gang member in Lafayette Park in the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha 13, a street gang originally started in Los Angeles by refugees from El Salvador fleeing the 1980's civil war, has members in 33 US states. The gang member was released though she was questioned the previous night for associating with other MS-13 members.
- Loving County has one of the highest per capita incomes of any US county.
- A road sign marks the Loving County line along Highway 302 outside of Mentone, Texas. Loving County's 84 residents are reported to have one of the highest per-capita incomes in the US of $89,471.
- The Boot Track Cafe sits along Highway 302 in Mentone, Texas, the county seat of Loving County. It is Mentone's only restaurant.
- Skeet Lee Jones, the Loving County Judge, checks one of his petroleum pump-jacks for daily maintenance in rural Mentone, Texas.
- Starr County has the lowest per capita income of any county.
- ROMA, TEXAS APRIL 9: A view of the Rio Grande River from Roma, Texas across to Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico shows a rising river after days of rain.
- A tractor-trailer crosses into Starr County, Texas along Route 83. The south Texas highway runs along the Texas-Mexico border and follows the path of the Rio Grande River. Starr County has the lowest per capita income of any US county at $11,362 per year.
- Mexican laborers harvest #10-15 yellow onions in Rio Grande City, Texas. The onion's name comes from it's annual planting date, roughly around October 15. The Mexican crew is from Tabasco State and will work the US agricultural harvests for nearly 10 months. Workers are on a contract giving them $10 - $12 per hour. A team of 4 can normally harvest 900-1000 pounds of onions per hour.
- The war in Iraq
- The California - Mexico border
- Two armed agents from Customs and Border Patrol are dropped from a helicopter for a night operation to intercept Mexican nationals illegally crossing the U.S. border in the Otay Mesa, California area.
- Mexican nationals who illegally crossed the California border are apprehended and handcuffed 3 miles inside U.S. territory by Customs and Border Protection agents in Campo, California. They wear woolen booties over their shoes to hide their tracks from CBP agents.
- Mexican nationals who are about to be deported back to Mexico wait in a special bus operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the San Ysidro, California border station.
- The war in Afghanistan 10th Mountain Division
- US Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division sit with their gear on a CH-47 helicopter flight from a forward operating base in Kamdesh, Nuristan to nearby Kunar Province.
- A US Army CH-47 helicopter flies over a reservoir in Nangahar Province on a resupply flight from Bagram Air Base to a final destination in eastern Afghanistan.
- US Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division and an Afghan National Army soldier work around a Long Range Acquisition System imaging device at an observation post in Kamdesh, eastern Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan's Zabul province.
- A US Army Humvee drives by an Afghan boy in Qalat, Zabul Province, in south central Afghanistan. Security is an issue as an influx of Pakistan-supported Taliban fighters has slowed reconstruction of rural areas in Zabul province.
- US Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 1-4 Infantry regiment search a group of Afghans whose pick-up truck mysteriously stopped along a resupply route to Forward Operating Base Lane north of Qalat, Zabul Province. The Afghans were later released.
- US Army soldiers setting off in an armored Humvee on a local patrol refer to their position on an electronic topographic map from a Blue Force Tracker outside the nearby Forward Operating Base Mizan in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. The black area follows the Arghandab River valley. An influx of Pakistan-supported Taliban fighters has slowed reconstruction of rural areas in Zabul Province.
- The gang activity of MS-13 and other Los Angeles area gangs.
- Police from Maryland's Prince George's County Anti-Gang Unit detain a confirmed gang member of Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13, in Langley Park, Maryland. The gang member, Juan Bonilla, had an outstanding warrant out for his arrest for 1st degree assault from a stabbing incident against a rival gang member. Bonilla shows all the signs of a decked out MS-13 gang member: MS-13 tattoos, MS-13 belt buckle, cut eye brows with the '1' and '3' number and the trademark blue and white clothing (the main colors of the Salvadoran flag). MS-13 was originally formed in South Los Angeles in the early 1980's following a mass exodus from El Salvador of families fleeing the country's violent civil war. It formed for neighborhood protection after Salvadorean immigrants were preyed upon by well organized Mexican street gangs. There's an estimated 10,000 MS-13 members in the U.S. in approximately 33 states. MS-13 is involved with drug smuggling, extortion and prostitution. If they commit a felony or deportable offence, gang members not born in the U.S. are deported back to Central America. The policy of deporting criminals has come under attack for serving only as a short term solution to a failed immigration policy.
- Using his street name, Cholo, 19 years, shows off his gang tattoos and hand signs in Durham, North Carolina. Cholo, an American-born citizen of Salvadoran heritage, is a member of Mara Salvatrucha-13, the violent street gang formed by refugees of El Salvador who fled the country's 1980's - 90's civil war and settled in Los Angeles, California. He was charged in August, 2005 for assault with a deadly weapon after shooting a rival gang member. Cholo is a member of a MS-13 subset called VLS or Venice Locos Salvatrucha.
- Using his street name, Snoopy, 20 years old, covers his face and shows his gang tattoos in Durham, North Carolina. Snoopy, an American-born citizen of Salvadoran descent, is a member of Mara Salvatrucha-13, the violent street gang formed by refugees of El Salvador who fled the country's 1980's - 90's civil war and settled in Los Angeles, California. He joined MS-13 in California when he was 13 years. Snoopy works at a Durham, NC fast food restaurant and is often harassed by police for his gang tattoos.
- Living in fear in Kashmir
- The wife of Manzoor Ahmad Mir holds a photograph of her missing husband while her three children look on in Awantipora, Kashmir, India. The husband was taken at night from his residence by Indian soldiers following a dispute he had with a police officer and neighbor in September, 2004. He has not been seen since nor has any proof of his arrest been given.
- Kashmiris sit outside the Shah Hamdani Mosque in Srinagar, Kashmir during an afternoon sunset. The mosque was originally built in 1395 and named after an Iranian pilgrim who journeyed across the lower Himalayas spreading Islam in present day India and Pakistan. A separatist Islamic insurgency has been thriving in Kashmir since 1989 against the predominantly Hindu federal government in New Delhi. Over 30,000 people have died in fighting and custodial deaths since the insurgency began in 1989.
- Laborers work on the reconstruction of the renowned Islamia High School in downtown Srinagar. The school was burned in an arson attack in early 2005 by Pakistani-supported Islamic militants wanting to send a message to the Kashmiri religious leader of the school not to negotiate with the Indian Government over Kashmir's independence. Kashmir has been in the throes of a low intensity uprising since 1989. Over 30,000 people have died so far in the conflict.
- India's Buddha Trail
- Prayer flags fly in the wind outside a Buddhist monastery in Shey, Ladakh. Ladakh is the Buddhist region of Jammu and Kashmir, a diverse Indian state made up of Hindus in Jammu, Muslims in Kashmir and Buddhists in western Ladakh. Shey, 15 kms from Leh, Ladakh's capital, was the summer palace of the kings of Ladakh who last ruled in the mid-1800's. Opened up to tourism in 1974, Ladakh is often called 'Little Tibet' through similarities in topography and culture with nearby Tibet. Ladakh's earliest inhabitants were Tibetan Khampa nomads who used the region's Himalayan pastures. The first settlements along the upper Indus River valley, where Shey is located, were established by Buddhist pilgrims from India on their way to Mt. Kailash in Tibet. Ladakh has over 10 million residents.
- A Thai Buddhist walks along the Mahabodhi Temple near the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where underneath Buddha attained enlightenment in 528 B.C. following 6 years of meditation. It was from here that he set out on his life of preaching. Bodhgaya is the most important Buddhist pilgrammage destination in the world and one of the most engaging of holy sites associated with Buddha's life. Buddha was born Siddartha Gautama in 563 B.C. near the present day border of India and Nepal. Buddha denounced all of his earthly possessions and on his path to Enlightenment, spent 6 years meditating on life's excesses in a cave near Bodhgaya. Following his disappointment with asceticism, he took a 'middle path' of less extreme practices and formulated his philosophy of a balanced approach to life. After spending close to a week in meditation underneath the Bodhi tree, he came to realize his true nature and that of reality. The current temple was restored in the 11th century and again in 1882.
- A statue of an upright Buddha stands amidst various stupas near the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya, India, where underneath Buddha attained enlightenment in 528 B.C. following 6 years of meditation. It was from here he set out on his life of preaching. Bodhgaya is the most important Buddhist pilgrammage destination in the world and one of the most engaging of holy sites associated with Buddha's life.
- Wyoming Energy
- A 133 car Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train moves slowly through a loading tower at the Buckskin Coal Mine in Campbell County's Powder River Basin, 12 miles north of Gillette, Wyoming.
- Pressurized steam is released by an employee at the KFx Inc.'s K-Fuel coal thermal upgrading plant in Gillette, Wyoming. The KFx project puts low sulfur-high moisture coal under intense heat and pressure and extracts moisture and toxic pollutants and increases the Btu content before shipping it to public utilities.
- A tire mechanic moves a 12 foot diameter tire in need of repair at the Big Horn Tire shop in Gillette, Wyoming. Due to a boom in the global mining industries, there is a world wide shortage of giant tires costing anywhere from $21,000, allocated by tire companies, to over $70,000 for each large tire on the spot market.
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