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Randy Olson

A diver hunts clams and sea urchins off Ofu Island, in the National Park of American Samoa. The U.S. national park, the only one in the Southern Hemisphere, preserves 9,100 acres of a pristine tropical ecosystem.

With Mount Kilimanjaro looming in the background, elephants graze in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Because of the constant presence of the Maasai, researchers, and tourists, elephants in the park don't experience much threat from poachers.

Excited students raise their hands at a new village school in Iharara, Tanzania, which was funded by government taxes on tourist developments.

Plastic bottles fill a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.

Children play on the shore of Manila Bay, which is polluted by household waste, plastics, and other trash.

A story in the October 1997 issue celebrated the American tradition of county fairs. Here, a young boy uses bottles of milk to coax his pet lamb and calf into a trailer so they can be transported to a competition at Oregon's Curry County Fair.

At the Geauga County Fair in 1997, a group of Amish women watch a harness race whiz by them. Today, some 18,000 Amish people reside in the Ohio county.

A story in the October 1997 issue celebrated the American tradition of county fairs. Here, a young boy uses bottles of milk to coax his pet lamb and calf into a trailer, by which they'll be taken to a compeition at Oregon's Curry County Fair.

A conveyor belt carries mixed plastic to a sorter in a recycling facility in San Francisco, California.

At a high-end mall in Guangzhou, China, crocodiles rest on the floor before being prepared for dinner in a nearby restaurant.