MONUMENT VALLEY

MONUMENT VALLEY

ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION

(ARIZONA-UTAH)

NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS AREA

Monument Valley II here

AND THE SPARKS FLEW: ZHENGZHOU, CHINA, THEN

AND THE SPARKS FLEW

LATHE OPERATOR

ZHENGZHOU, CHINA, 1981

One in a Series

CHINA THEN AND NOW

To be published in

HERE BE GIANTS

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: LIMA, PERU

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE

CELEBRATING APEC 2008

LIMA, PERU

from PERU SCENES

LENIN AGAIN: SOVIET MANAGEMENT AT SEA

LENIN AGAIN

SOVIET MANAGEMENT AT SEA

CAPTAIN OF A FLOATING FISH FACTORY

ON THE SEA OKHOTSK

OFF SAKHALIN (RUSSIA), USSR, 1990

LOS ALAMOS PASS IN THE SNOW: IN HONOR OF FEBRUARY 16

NEW MEXICO

"LAND OF ENCHANTMENT"

IN HONOR OF FEBRUARY 16

LOS ALAMOS PASS 

IN THE SNOW

More New Mexico here 

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER TURNS EIGHTY-ONE

JAMES SCHLESINGER

b. February 15, 1929

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER

BACK AT HARVARD

March 14, 2007

Harvard-trained economist turned national security specialist;

CIA Director; Secretary of Defense;

(first) Secretary of Energy

(under Nixon-Ford-Carter) --

wielding a slide rule when I first photographed him,

in Washington, D.C.

IN HONOR OF VALENTINE'S DAY: THE KISS

IN HONOR OF VALENTINE'S DAY

"THE KISS"

BY

VICTOR DELFIN

IN

THE LOVE PARK

LIMA, PERU

More

PERU SCENES

CHINA THEN AND NOW: SHANGHAI CLINIC

CHINA THEN AND NOW

THEN:

A CLINIC IN A SHANGHAI WORKERS'

APARTMENT COMPLEX, 1981

One of a Series

To be published in

HERE BE GIANTS

NOW:

The Los Angeles TIMES reports that "In China, shift

to privatized healthcare brings long lines and frustration"

MERKEL, "MUTTI," AND NOT-THE-MARK

MERKEL, "MUTTI," AND 

NOT-THE-MARK 

ANGELA MERKEL ON THE MOVE 

What to do about bearing gifts to the Greeks, especially when your own economy has unexpectedly slipped a bit? Chancellor Angela Merkel has to decide. 

German public opinion seems to be against anything smacking of a bailout. The New York Times has already run a headline proclaiming that "Germany, Forced to Buoy Greece, Rues Euro Shift." It is we-told-you-so time bemoaning the loss of the "beloved Deutschmark" (Financial Times). Yet what is to become of the European project "beloved" of former Chancellors? 

Will Merkel be Mutti (Mom) or Catherine the Great? 

(For a photograph of Angela Merkel and George W. Bush holding hands, see here.) 

BILL CLINTON HOSPITALIZED

BILL CLINTON 

HOSPITALIZED 

BILL CLINTON IN DAYS OF YORE -- 

TO WIT, 

1988 & THE DEMOCRATIC 

NATIONAL CONVENTION 

For more on the original heart work, look here in the postings for September 3-6, 2004