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Afghan women wearing traditional burkhas shop in the civil war era ruins of Kabul. A kite, forbidden by the Taliban, flys above the ruins. 11/19/01.

An anti-Taliban fighter takes cover in a foxhole from incoming Al Qaeda machine-gun fire in a foxhole as U. S. jets bomb Al Qaeda positions. 12/14/01

After the first tower collapsed, the streets resembled the set of a science fiction movie.

One heroin addict injects another in the stomach on a pedestrian overpass in Karachi.

Former W.R. Grace miner Les Skramstad listens to Spokane lung specialist Dr. Whitehouse review the x-rays of his wife Norita during a visit from Libby earlier this year. Les is dying from his exposure to asbestos. But, he never realized his clothes…

A respirator hangs from a water pump outside a Libby home that was being inspected for asbestos levels.

An asbestos fiber found in a home during EPA testing is detected by the fine eye of an electron microscope. The fiber is straight with spear-like appendages. When breathed into the lungs the fiber digs deeper into the tissue with no way to reverse…

A worker for the EPA enters the sealed home of Libby resident Mike Powers before the start of a cleaning scenario that will measure the levels of airborne asbestos fibers in the air. Like many families before them the Powers family had to relocate…

My Daughter Is My Family- 'I worry about Lyla being taken away. Just thinking about that makes me mad and sad and all frustrated at the same time,' says Monique. She's been estranged from her mother who abused heroin and doesn't know who her father…

Lost and Lonely-Walking single file, inmates at Theo Lacy Men's Jail enter the mess hall to eat lunch. 'I'm lost and lonely in here man. This is hell,' Jesse says, on the verge of tears standing alone against the wall.