April 29, 2001

Where:Northern Kenya
When:1999
Photographer:Maria Stenzel

“Voices ring out across rain-washed hills as Ariaal women make their way to a wedding: ‘Meirita ngai nkeera ang!’ they sing. ‘God bless our children!’ All of Marsabit District revels at the end of the rainy season.”

—From “Vanishing Cultures,” August 1999, National Geographic magazine

Where:Antarctica
When:1998
Photographer:Maria Stenzel

“A giant jigsaw puzzle of stone and soil shaped by frost paves Beacon Valley. The age of volcanic ash here shows little has changed in millions of years. ‘Antarctica holds the answers,’ says geologist Dave Marchant, who seeks clue to Earth’s past. ‘They’re just hidden.’”

—From “Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert,” October 1998, National Geographic magazine

Where:Near Seligman, Arizona
When:1997
Photographer:Vincent J. Musi

“Those who love wind in their hair relish the straightaway west of Seligman.”

—From “Route 66,” September 1997, National Geographic magazine

Where:Okavango Delta, Botswana
When:1999
Photographer:Chris Johns

“A termite mound doubles as a watchtower for two brothers—a ‘coalition’—that scout for predators and prey in their territory.”

—From “Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands,” December 1999, National Geographic magazine

Where:Yazd, Iran
When:1999
Photographer:Alexandra Avakian

“Marco Polo called it the ‘good and noble’ city of Yazd, an ancient town where desert architects learned to cool buildings and even make ice by harnessing the wind. A 14th-century mosque still dominates Yazd’s oldest quarter.”

—From "Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform," July 1999, National Geographic magazin

Where:Khuzestan Province, Iran
When:1999
Photographer:Alexandra Avakian

“In the southwestern province of Khuzestan, Nahid and Hussein Saboee collect salt after school to sell to bakers. The good news: 85 percent of Iran's children go to school, and 80 percent of the population is literate, versus less than half before the 1979 revolution.”

—From “Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine

Where:Malaysia
When:1997
Photographer:Stuart Franklin

“Fruit from one of Malaysia’s largest oil-palm plantations rolls to mill over a light railway.”

—From “Malaysia: Rising Star,” August 1997, National Geographic magazine

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