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A young boy walks to school in the morning on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. Until this recent school year, the island had no high school. Most children would be sent to Santiago or Valparaiso on the mainland to finish school. Some are taking advantage of having a new high school on the island but other families still choose to send their children away in hopes that their education will be better.

Clowns, who had been fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House at Lickity Split, an ice cream shop in Chapel Hill, take a break to eat ice cream. Lickity Split offered to donate a portion of its sales that day to the Ronald McDonald House, which will use the money to serve as a haven for families whose loved ones are away from home and seeking medical treatment.

Krinsa Rojas, 4, listens to her dentist, Mónica Quevedo, explain how she is about to fill a cavity in the girl's teeth. Quevedo is the only dentist on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile and only one of two professional women there. Though not originally from the island, Quevedo moved there with her husband, who runs a hotel and scuba diving business out of the family's home. La Posta, which is the name of the health center on the island, provides free health care to everyone there through funding from the Chilean government.

Wedding guests dance at the reception of a wedding in Falls Church, Virginia on September 2, 2006.

Children play in the downtown square of San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama Desert of Chile in June 2006. The Atacama is considered the driest desert in the world, as there are parts where rainfall has never been recorded. However, more than a million people live within in the 600-mile expanse of desert.

A boat heads toward Robinson Crusoe Island, formerly known as Isla Mas a Tierra, in the South Pacific Ocean. Robinson Crusoe Island is the largest of the three islands in the Juan Fernandez archipelago.

A cook at the only pre-school on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago of Chile gazes out of the school's door to yell after someone she knows. Most of the women on the island spend a lot of time cooking, cleaning and working other domestic jobs while the men are usually fishermen.

Stacy King, center, a member of the International Socialists Organization (ISO), chants in protest of the war in Iraq while marching across the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. ISO's aim is to stand for social justice issues and to work toward a future socialist society.

Michael English, a Washington D.C. resident, pulls off a t-shirt bearing an upside-down American flag at the end of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war protest at the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. This shirt was made by artist Delia Jurek, who set up a display at the protest to sell some of her work while she also participated in the rally.

David Goins, drum major of Cakalak Thunder, leads his protest group in an anti-war song at the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 27. Cakalak Thunder, which came from Greensboro, N.C., traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the protest against the war in Iraq sponsored by United for Peace and Justice.

North Carolina linebacker Larry Edwards (32) pops the ball loose from Utah quarterback Brian Johnson (3) in the fourth quarter Saturday, Oct. 1, for one of the Utes’ five turnovers. The Tar Heels defeated the Utes with a final score of 31 to 17. The victory put the Tar Heels back to .500 at 2-2 in the season.

North Carolina junior Ivory Latta (12), guard, smiles at the crowd of mostly Duke fans before the matchup with the Blue Devils on Sunday, Jan. 29. Though the roaring Cameron Crazies, Duke's student peanut gallery, did their best to boo Latta and her teammates, the Tar Heels came out of the game victorious with a final score of 74-70. The two teams were the only Division 1 men's or women's basketball teams left undefeated until this game, which secured the Tar Heels the no. 1 spot in the nation.

Duke's Shelden Williams (23), forward, reaches to block North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough's (50) basket in the match-up between the two rivals at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham on March 7, 2006. Much to the help of Hansbrough, who was recently named as the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman of the Year, the Tar Heels were victorious over the Blue Devils with a final score of 83-76. Hansbrough's career-high of 27-points was a key component to North Carolina's win.

North Carolina Coach Roy Williams yells at a referee after one of his players is fouled during the game against Boston College in Chapel Hill on January 25. The Tar Heels lost to the Eagles with a final score of 81-74.

Barbara Rodbell, a Holocaust survivor, tells stories on April 11, 2005 at UNC-CH, of her time in hiding in the Holland underground and how she used fake identification to outwit the Nazis.
After Rodbell finished telling her stories, she challenged students to question what the Holocaust means. She stressed that people must remember the event to avoid future attacks on people of different races and cultural backgrounds.

Tommy Wilcox's aide, Keshawna, talks with him about how one of his roommates was rude to him at the dinner table. She tells him that some people are "just that way and you have to ignore them." Wilcox is a 43-year-old man living with Autism at an assisted living community in Pittsboro, N.C. The timer that Wilcox wears around his neck is set before each task he must complete or place he must be. If Wilcox arrives on time after the timer goes off, he is rewarded with points that add up to money. At the end of the week, Wilcox often uses the money he has made to go to the movies.


Bairon Lopez, 11, kisses his mother's, Ariadne Chamorro, forehead before leaving to go back to school after his lunch break. The family lives on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez archipelago of Chile. Lunch time is always family time for Chamorro, her husband and their children, who otherwise stay busy. Ariadne sells handcrafts she makes out of fish scales and goes to night school in hopes of getting her high school diploma. Most children on the island go to the mainland of Chile when it is time to begin high school. Ariadne and her husband, Luis Lopez, plan to send Bairon to a school in Valparaiso as they did with their older daughter.

Bastian Espindola, 4, poors water in a cup and throws it on the ground over and over for fun. Bastian lives in the small, ghost-like town of Toconao, in the Atcama Desert of Chile. Water is scarce there in the desert and some of the water that is available is contaminated with arsenic.

A young boy lies in the dirt after falling off of a sheep at the American Legion in King, N.C. on Feb. 26, 2006. The Legion, along with King Cowboy Church, hosts bull riding competitions on Saturday nights. During breaks from the buill riding, children are given the chance to ride sheep in a similar style.

Carlos Torres, a 50-year-old man living alone in the Atacama Desert of Chile near the Bolivian border, gathers water out of a small pond near his house. Torres will use the water to to drink, and cook and clean with, as no plumbing reaches the high altitude where he lives.