A tea shop in Diyarbakir

Sheriff's Gang Unit stops gangmembers in their car to check for guns

[Two children play on a fire escape, New York]

[Family at kitchen table, New York]

[Mother asleep with six kids and dog, New York]

Periodical: America Under Siege

In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery.

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.

This Kurdish family in Diyarbakir, Turkey, lost two of its children to confrontations with the Turkish army. Their son and daughter both belonged to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which seeks to establish a Kurdish state.

Girls in front of their makeshift tent in the Ziveh refugee camp in Iran. The camp was created in the 1970's to house Kurdish refugees from Iraqi persecution.

Steve and Chris were members of the first generation of the Evergreens during the 1960s and 70s

Young teens arrested for graffiti writing

Chivo, 19 year old gang member, Monica, and their son Joshua at home

Dean Cisneros (left) of Lincoln High School questions a student about throwing an orange at his teacher. Lincoln Heights

Members of Florencia 13 gang outside school, South Central

[At the end of the march, crowds gather outside of the Alabama State Capitol]

[A woman waters a desert garden next to a fountain, Los Angeles]