1. Our World Delivered A collection of New York Times photos on page three of its international section* and the Tiffany & Co. advertisements that share space on the same page * The NY Times moved its international page in the spring of 2008. The Tiffany & Co. advertisements remain on page three.
2. Collected by Bill Vitek Assisted by Zach Swank and Joel Hurd Music selected by Andrew Vitek Music: “Blown-Out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole,” Composed and Performed by Silver Mt. Zion Used by Permission
3. The following slide show is a glimpse of two worlds side by side. The first world is the “developed” world at its materialistic zenith; the other world, five billion people strong, is still struggling to meet its most basic needs.
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5. The images are unintentionally juxtaposed in one of the world’s most influential media outlets: The New York Times .
31. Trends in natural disasters http:// maps.grida.no /go/graphic/trends-in-natural-disasters
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33. Around the world political unrest destabilizes governments, creating civil wars, refugees, and misery.
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38. http://www.povertymap.net/mapsgraphics/graphics/undernutrition_en.cfm The red zones on this map represent national or sub-national units where greater than 50% of children suffer from stunted growth. The blue zones on this map represent the number of stunted children in each national or sub-national unit greater than 5,000
60. Of the 1.9 billion children from the developing world, there are 640 million without adequate shelter (1 in 3). In 2005, one out of three urban dwellers (approximately 1 billion people) was living in slum conditions. http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
73. “ The United States in 2005, with 5% of world population, used about 22% of total energy, and G8 countries, with 12% of the world’s population consumed about 46% of the world’s energy. In contrast, the world’s poorest one quarter of humanity consumes less than 3% of the world’s total primary energy supply. Few other comparisons illuminate more starkly the existential chasm separating the two worlds.” Vaclav Smil
