Figure 1. Battle of Seattle

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Figure 2. GDP per capita by world region

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Figure 3. Economic growth rate (as percentage) of the BRIC Nations

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Figure 4. GDP per capita (in constant 2000 US$)

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Figure 5. A World Cup fan shows off South Africa’s colors

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Figure 6. South African fans wave their vuvuzelas.

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Figure 7. Mothers wait with their children at a hospital in Uganda. Most children suffer from malaria

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Figure 8. Drinking from a newly built well provided by charity: water

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Figure 9. HIV-positive children at a Cambodian orphanage.

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Figure 10. Becky Provots, CDC epidemiologist, administers a polio vaccine in Brazil during a National Immunization Day in 2001.

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Figure 11. Awaiting polio vaccination

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