More than 200 boys work daily 8-hour shifts in an airless, makeshift aluminum pot factory in the City of the Dead. In Cairo, refugees from teh housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery.

Market day in the City of the Dead. In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.

A pole-vaulter in the 70+ category defies gravity at the 2001 Senior Olympics. In fifteen years, the Senior Olympics has grown from a modest experiment to a national phenomenon drawing more than 12,000 athletes in dozens of events.

Inmates at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed facility take their twice-daily inhalation therapy to alleviate the suffering from emphysema.

Marlene Patton, 67, attends Sturgis Motorcycle Rally where she was crowned queen in 1977. Marlene is also the founder of the Retreads Motorcycle Club, for bikers over 40.

Marvin Wilson, 94, owns the only house left standing on the south side of town after a tornado nearly wiped out the small town of Spencer, South Dakota in 1998.

His village destroyed in 1988, this Pesh Merga now lives on a guerilla base with his countrymen.

In a makeshift court in Zakho, two boys plead their case before a judge (holding the knife). Such courts were created after the Gulf War of 1991, which was part of the Kurds' reclaiming authority over northern Iraq.