Maxine Peters finally passes away at home, surrounded by her family, friends and hospice aides. In rural West Virginia, people still live--and die, the old fashioned way.

Kurdish men in northern Iraq train as new recruits for the Pesh Merga, or "those who face death", after the Gulf War of 1991.

For eight hours each day, PKK guerillas study Kurdish history and socialist ideology in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, is fighting for Kurdish Independent in Turkey.

Chivo and his mother Ema, sister, and friend Boxer

In Tijuana, Mexico, Chivo and a few of the homeboys drive down for fun and drink

Silent, Chivo, Scoob dog, and Penguin from Evergreen show off their hardware

Due to overcrowding and make-shift housing conditions in Cairo’s City of the Dead, much of daily life takes place in public. One million people live, work, shop and got to school in this cemetery.

Boys play ball among the tombs of Cairo's City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.

San Francisco's inflated housing market and high rents are particularly hard on low-income seniors. An elderly resident being evicted from his home is assisted by the SF Sheriff's department, part of an innovative program to help the most vulnerable.

A Kurdish woman harvests lentils on Arab owned land in Syria, along the border with Turkey.

The Ishikveren Refugee Camp in Turkey was home to 200,000 Kurds from Iraq who fled after the Gulf War in 1991.

In a Turkish terrorist court in Diyarbakir, this Kurdish woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison, accused of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which seeks to create an independent state in southeastern Turkey.

Early morning calisthenics for a new group of Pesh Merga recruits in Northern Iraq

Even harsh winter conditions don’t stop these brave children from attending school. In bombed-out schoolrooms in Penjwin, Kurdish children study in three daily shifts because there aren't enough teachers, rooms or supplies.

Frankie and Spanky pay their respects to Gyro, who was killed by a rival gang. Months earlier Gyro had stopped gangbanging

Insane Juvenile Queens, South Central

Herberto in maximum security at California Youth Authority

Funeral of two-and-a-half-year-old Thomas Regalado III, East Los Angeles

Boyle Heights

A night of truce in East L.A., seconds after a drive-by shooting, a Clarence gangmember is hit by fire from an automatic weapon. He survived. Boyle Heights

Chivo mows the lawn

Chivo takes a break from cutting the lawn. He says he never accepted the fact that his father died four years ago. He says, "I think if he were alive, I might not be a gang member."

["Krushchev can eat here: why can't we?"]

[National Guard soldiers escort Freedom Riders along their ride from Montgomery to Jackson]