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Bill Rathje, a doctor of anthropology from Harvard conducts a popular garbology course at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Urban Ore--A look at the world of garbage. A barge load of garbage from New York City passes within smelling distance of the Statue of Liberty.

A Vietnamese refugee comforts her grandson.

Sleeping quarters in a refugee camp in Honduras near the Salvadoran border.

A Salvadoran refugee child waits for milk in Mocorne, Honduras.

Abu Nidal, a Palestinian refugee, holds one of his six children as he sits in a school playground where he and his family have been living with other refugees since his home was destroyed in the fighting between Israeli and Palestinian forces. The…

An old man from a Palestinian refugee camp in South Lebanon rests by the side of the road while fleeing north to escape raiding Israeli troops.

A West Beirut Arab woman carries her sparse possessions with her as she leaves her home in the heart of West Beirut. She passes a burnt out auto as she makes her way to the line of refugees that are crossing into the comparative safety of Eastern…

Plight of the homeless refugees is seen in the face of this Lebanese mother carrying her children in town of Bourj El Barjneh. They make their way toward doctors from Abdelkader who come with sparse food rations for these unfortunate victims.

The hell of Haiti, where manpower is so cheap it is easier to bring mixed concrete up in buckets by numbers instead of machines, is a dramatic example of overpopulation.