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A homeless boy stands among men in a food line in hopes of a hot meal being distributed on a street outside of a Lahore mosque during the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims are encouraged to give to the poor in Lahore, Pakistan. Over a quarter of the Pakistan population lives below the poverty line.
     
  
A man offers a prayer on the rubble of the Jamia Hafsia, the girl's madrassa which was affiliated with the Red Mosque, after Friday prayers at the mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan on October 5, 2007. The Red Mosque was reopened on Wednesday, and thousands came to offer prayers. Afterwards, many looked through the rubble of the madrassa, in which over one hundred people died when Pakistan military raided the building to flush out the militants holed up inside.
  
  
     
  
In one of her older sister's dresses, Ella Prescott, age 5, plays in the backyard of her family's home in the subdivision known as Mission Crest. This community has become a ghost town where people still live; over 40% of the nearly 1,000 homes have been foreclosed on. The Prescott family has begun packing and plans on walking away from their home, which is now worth less than half of what they paid for it. *Photographed for the Los Angeles Times as part of a larger story about this subdivision. Published June, 2010.
  
  
     
  
   
An unhappy bull charges the cowboy trying to ride him after falling to the ground during a summer rodeo in Frederick, Maryland.
   
Dutch soldiers talk to their loved ones at home in the phone booths at the Dutch Compound on the ISAF base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
     
  
Fifteen-year-old Nashert looks out of the door of her home in a small village outside of Lahore, Pakistan. The majority of the women who are born in this village will stay their entire lives, mainly working in their homes as well as the rice fields during harvest time.
   
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali., shares a moment with Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., on the Speaker's stand after a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. Pelosi is the first female Speaker of the House in history, and Byrd is the longest-serving member in the history of the Senate.
   
With the help of sheepdogs, Neil Ross and his niece Jessica Ross, age 5, move part of the flock of sheep to a neighboring pasture before darkness falls in the countryside of Scotland. Unlike most girls her age, Jessica wants to be a sheep farmer when she grows up and will most likely stay on the farm and raise her own family there someday. Jessica is a prime example of the way farming families begin learning their work at an early age.