Osama Qurtom and his son Mahmoud at their home in Gaza. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption

Some people just aren't into the big Thanksgiving Day extravaganza. Stuart Monk /iStockphoto.com hide caption

Maurice Geddie of Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood picks up a free turkey donated by a local grocery store. He's hoping his wife will be willing to cook it, though she's been stuck cooking for storm victims at shelters for weeks. Ailsa Chang/NPR hide caption

Ana Julia Torres cares for hundreds of abused animals at a refuge in Cali, Colombia, including this lion named Jupiter. Many of the animals were previously owned by drug traffickers who have been arrested. Juan Forero/NPR hide caption

Hinkley, Calif., may soon become a ghost town as residents move away from contaminated water. Gloria Hillard for NPR hide caption

Sharon Van Etten's Tramp was released in February by Jagjaguwar. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Workers pick fruit Sept. 22 during the grape harvest at the Gevrey-Chambertin vineyard in France's Burgundy region. Bad weather has reduced the grape yield by as much as 70 percent in some vineyards. Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images hide caption