Amanda Rivkin

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ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. The Ethiopian patriarch visits the Holy Trinity Church, where former Emperor Halle Selassie's tomb rests, on the eve of the Coptic millenium, September 11, 2007. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban children aged nine and ten wait their turn on the baseball field, a national pass time, at a track and field arena beside the Straights of Florida on March 9, 2010.
   
HAVANA, CUBA. Cuban children aged nine and ten play baseball, a national pass time, at a track and field arena beside the Straights of Florida on March 9, 2010.
     
  
MOCHOVCE, SLOVAKIA. Workers inside the control room in the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant on June 18, 2010. Construction began during the communist regime in the 1970s, but the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant was not complete until after the revolution in 1989 and is currently run by the Italian power company Enel and the Slovak Electric Company.
   
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Club-goers at Jedynka, a Polish night club, at 5610 W. Diversey on Chicago's West Side on April 5, 2008. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for Time Out Chicago)
   
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL. Palestinians rush to the Temple Mound and the Al-Aqsa mosque before the call to prayer in the Muslim Quarter of the old city on June 6, 2008.
     
  
BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK, PALESTINIAN TERRITORITIES. Orthodox mass at the Church of the Nativity, which tradition says is built over the cave where Jesus was born, on June 8, 2008.
   
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. Alicia Barrera Rosales, 32, awaits a ritual bath in the courtyard of Margarita Velasco Ortega's house on June 23, 2008. Barrera Rosales visited Velasco Ortega's stall at the Mercado de Sonora four days before seeking help with her romantic and financial future.
  
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. Yoruba faith healer Margarita Velasco Ortega assists Alicia Barrera Rosales, 32, in a ritual bath and bucket shower as part of a ceremony in the Afro-Caribbean faith on June 23, 2008.
     
  
COSTUR, SPAIN. Locals hold candles after arriving at the cavalry and cemetery above the town of Costur following a procession during the municipal fiestas on August 16, 2009.
   
COSTUR, SPAIN. Men carry Jesus on the cross after arriving at the cavalry and cemetery above the town following a procession during the municipal fiestas in the town on August 16, 2009.
   
PAMPLONA, SPAIN. An Australian tourist is carried on a stretcher by medical service staffers after suffering the first injury, a goring in the buttock, on the first day of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin fiestas on July 7, 2007. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)
     
  
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA. Somali-American demonstrators near the capitol building protest as the Republican National Convention kicks off its first day of muted activities due to Hurricane Gustav on September 1, 2008. The Twin Cities are home to a sizeable enclave of Somali and East African immigrants from Kenya and Ethiopia.
  
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. The BYD Chinese Auto showroom girls at the Detroit Auto Show on January 12, 2009. BYD stands for Build Your Dreams.
   
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. A concert in Preston Bradley hall at the Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center, a Chicago landmark, at 78 E. Washington on March 23, 2009. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times)
     
  
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. Wedding guests in the men's section of the Widdi Islamic wedding hall during a Yemeni wedding celebration on May 11, 2007. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin for The Yemen Observer)
   
SDEROT, ISRAEL. Eshay Ederi, 6, leaves to catch the bus to school on May 30, 2008.
  
MADRID, SPAIN. Two men marvel at a pair of drag queens walking by on the street in the Chueca neighborhood on June 29, 2007 during the Europride celebrations. Before Chueca's transformation into the center of gay life in the Spanish capital, drug addicts and dealers made life uncomfortable for many of the neighborhood's elderly residents who credit the gay community for the neighborhood's renaissance. One long-time Chueca resident was quoted in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, "Better gays than drug addicts."
     
  
PIESTANY, SLOVAKIA. Inside Slovakia's first five-star hotel, the Hotel Thermia, on the thermal spa island a Middle Eastern tourists looks over at an Orthodox Jewish tourist on June 25, 2010. Flags outside the Hotel Thermia include flags from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and others seldom seen side by side.
   
KOSICE, SLOVAKIA. An old woman or babka walks down the Main Street early in the morning on June 3, 2010.
   
NEAR DEBRE BIRHAN, ETHIOPIA. A woman rides her horse down a muddy trail during the wet season five kilometers southwest of Debre Birhan, Ethiopia on September 2, 2007. As Ethiopians in the capital Addis Ababa prepare for the Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007, life in the countryside continues with little fanfare. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)