Laid Low
Erahmah, a young girl afflicted with the disease, suffers so much from pain from the disease that she is unable to walk. An overwhelming number of Guinea Worm patients are children, as they are less likely to check if their drinking water has been filtered.
A Simple Tool
Stopping the spread of the parasite can be achieved by filtering the water through ordinary cloth. Health workers in Wantugu routinely visit area homes to make sure that the cloths used as filters have no holes.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955, the black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, inspired by the arrest of Rosa Parks, who refused to give her seat to a white man, began a 13-month boycott of the city bus system. The strike was coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association, with King as its president.
Rosa Parks
King wrote that the seamstress was "ideal for the role assigned to her by history," because "her character was impeccable and her dedication deep-rooted."
Arrested
Three months into the strike, 156 protesters, including King, were arrested for violating a 1921 law against "hindering" a bus. King was ordered to pay a $500 fine or serve 386 days in jail. He ended up spending two weeks in prison, a move that backfired because it called national attention to the protest.
Mourning in Gaza
Relatives grieve for al-Akhras. His brother told Reuters that Jihad was a baggage handler at the Rafah-Egypt border terminal and was running to help someone with his luggage when he was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers (December 6, 2003)
Taking the Tower
Activists unfurl on the Eiffel tower a black flag with the five Olympic rings depicted as handcuffs.
Making His Point
Another Free Tibet campaigner is apprehended after getting too close to the torch.
Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths Vietnam War Photographs Photographer Magnum
Crater
Destruction wrought by a U.S. raid aimed at stopping the flow of weapons into South Vietnam on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1968.
Unknown Civilian
An injured Vietnamese woman, 1967.
'Vietnam Inc.'
A wounded Marine photographed during the Tet offensive in 1968. After Vietnam Inc. was published in 1971, Griffiths was expelled from South Vietnam. Then South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu said at the time,"There are many people I don't want to see back in my country, b
Human Toll
Tran Ngoc, photographed in Vietnam in 1998, suffers from Spina Bifida and is mentally retarded. His father lived in an area sprayed with Agent Orange during the war. Griffiths had returned to Vietnam to photograph the effects of the chemical agent used by U.S. forces.
A Painful Peace
Vietnamese children suffering from birth defects caused by Agent Orange photographed in 1998. In 2005, Griffiths published Viet Nam at Peace, a 25 year study exploring the long-term consequences of the war.
Philip Jones Griffiths Photographer Magnum
Refugee
A boy tied to a tree stump in the Fugnido refugee camp in western Ethiopia in 1988. He was believed to have been suffering the mental effects of the trauma of seeing his family obliterated by the Sudanese army.
Digging Deep
More than two billion people worldwide rely on wells for their water. As water tables continue to drop, many of them, like these Kenyan villagers on Pate Island, devote countless hours to collecting and hauling the valuable resource. The pits in this photo, taken less than 300 feet from the ocean's edge, yield a brackish, but drinkable water.
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