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   ['slideshow/images4/2-Children-Urmuqi.jpg', 'Children Practice Their English', 'Many Uighur children wanted to practice their English on us. I found it funny when the young boy on the left asked, in a British accent, \"Excuse me! Can I speak with you for a moment?\"', '4', '2'],
   ['slideshow/images4/9-Sheep-heads.jpg', 'Sheep Heads', 'Nothing goes to waste here. Every part of the sheep\'s head is eaten, except for the bones and fur.', '5', '3'],
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   ['slideshow/images4/13-goats.jpg', 'Ready for Shearing', 'Sheep are tied together to keep them from escaping while their thick coats are sheared.', '8', '6'],
   ['slideshow/images4/12-sheepheader.jpg', 'Tibetan Sheepherder', 'A nomadic sheepherder lets his flock go to graze in a nearby pasture. His cigarette never leaves his mouth, even when he is wrangling a large herd.', '9', '7'],  
   ['slideshow/images4/monks_filming.jpg', 'Tibetan Nuns', 'When I photographed these nuns, part of the Yellow Hat sect, they were very shy. They giggled and spoke to each other in hushed voices as I walked among them. One young nun grabbed Xiaoli and tried to persuade her to stay and live at the monastery. Tibetan girls can join a nunnery as early as 12, although they must get permission from their parents.', '10', '8'],
   ['slideshow/images4/monkcellphone.jpg', 'Monks and the Modern World', 'Nearly all monks have cell phones -- many of them equipped with modern gadgets such as cameras and music players. After they finish a call, they tuck the phone away somewhere under their robes.', '11', '9'],
   ['slideshow/images4/oldman.jpg', 'Posing With a Smile', 'When I asked this man on the streets of Lhasa if I could take his picture, he smiled at me and happily posed against the stone wall of a local monastery, twirling his prayer wheel.', '12', '10'],
   ['slideshow/images4/skulls_market.jpg', 'Antelope Skulls', 'We found these skulls and bones being openly sold in a market in Lhasa. They prove that the illegal poaching trade in antelope and other endangered animals is still alive and well in China.', '13', '11'],
   ['slideshow/images4/tourist_spot.jpg', 'Kunming at Night', 'We took an evening stroll through Green Lake Park in the city of Kunming, when it was shimmering with colored lights and busy with the chatter of locals and tourists.', '14', '12'],
   ['slideshow/images4/trapped_airport.jpg', 'The \"incident\" at Kunming Airport', 'In the final part of the diary I describe what happened to Xiaoli and I on our final journey back to Shanghai after six months on the road. It certainly wasn\'t what I was expecting.  ', '0', '13']

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