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While city nightlife might attract young Uighurs, many others are still fighting the battle to preserve tradition.

Much like the Tibetans, China's Uighur people are struggling survival.

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Cuba Was A Canvas For Artist Belkis Ayon()  

Untitled, 1999, lithography

When Ayon committed suicide in 1999, she was just 32 years old — and already a star in the Cuban art world. A major exhibit of her work now under way in Havana has revived an enduring mystery in Cuba — about art, African myths and the shadowy, all-male secret society known as Abakua.

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Potter's Wood-Fired Kiln Sparks Friendships()  

Volunteers Nancy Parent and Dan Corwin-Renner stoke the kiln.

Twice a year, potter Naysan McIlhargey and as many as 40 of his friends spend hours firing the plates, bowls, cups, pitchers and vases he makes.

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The Uighurs' Unknown Struggle()  

An Uighur city is being demolished

November 25, 2009 The Tibetan struggle for sovereignty is a story often sung. But there is another struggle for survival in China: that of the Uygur people, a Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. Photographs by Carolyn Drake bring this previously marginalized story into the fold.

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The World's Largest Camera Is On Wheels()  

Shaun Irving's Cameratruck

November 24, 2009 Photographer Shaun Irving has transformed a truck into the world's largest, mobile camera.

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Viewers Make Their Pix In Nat Geo's Photo Contest()  

Sunrise at Death Valley National Park, Calif.

November 23, 2009 The winners from National Geographic's International Photography Contest will be announced in early December, but viewers have been voting on their favorites for the past few weeks. View a selection of a "viewer's choice" photographs.

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Tim Burton's Drawings On Display()  

Tim Burton's drawing of Edward Scissorhands

November 20, 2009 By Claire O'Neill Tim Burton is probably the only person who could get away with using a monster's mouth as the entrance to an art exhibition. You know him for his films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Of all film director-pr...

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