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In a shelter in Vrindavan, known as a “city of widows,” Lalita, right, bears the cropped hair and white wrap her culture once considered obligatory for widowhood. Shelter manager Ranjana, a much younger widow, is less constrained by traditional customs. The death of a husband can mean exile and abuse, but bereaved women are beginning to fight back.
Folk musicians play at Aguadilla beach in Puerto Rico in an image taken for a story in the March 2003 issue on the question of statehood for the commonwealth.
A story in the March 2003 issue documented the ongoing debate over Puerto Rico's future. Here, a woman shows off her Puerto Rican flag dress at the annual Carnival celebration in Ponce.
A lab worker removes the spiky green bur from chestnuts pollinated with transgenic pollen. With each generation of genetically modified trees, scientists get closer to the day when American chestnuts may once again thrive in the wild.
Hannah Pilkey harvests chestnuts in the fall at the Tully Field Station, near Syracuse. The chestnut flowers were fertilized with pollen from genetically modified trees. Bags ensure that pollen and seeds aren’t accidentally spread.
The future of the once magnificent American chestnut tree may depend on saplings like these in a greenhouse in Syracuse, New York. The saplings have been genetically modified to resist a fungus that killed billions of chestnuts in the early 20th century.
Edison’s incandescent light bulb—and Latimer’s contributions to it—helped make lighting affordable and accessible around the world like in this shoemaker’s workshop in Agra, India.
People dive into a river in El Yunque National Forest, an hour outside San Juan, Puerto Rico. This picture appeared in a March 2003 story about the culture and political future of Puerto Rico.
Sisters sweep out sludge from a watering trough on their family sheep farm in Ivanhoe, New South Wales, Australia. This photo appeared in an April 2009 issue about an extreme drought, known as the Millennium drought, that affected Australia for about 15 years.
A story in the February 2017 issue examined the status of widows around the world. In this photo, two widows celebrate Holi, once thought inappropriate for widows, at the Gopinath Temple in Vrindavan, Uttar Predesh, India.