Images Dated 25th March 2004

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2004 Formula One Testing,Circuit Paul Ricard, France. 24th March 2004.
Pedro De la Rosa, McLaren Mercedes MP4/19.
Photo: Lorenzo Bellanca/LAT Photographic.
Reference: 35mm transparency 14

Oil pipeline

Oil pipeline. Construction of an oil pipeline through an area of cloud forest. The Oleoducto Crudo Pesado pipeline, completed in October 2003, transports between 390, 000 and 450, 000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Ecuadorian Amazonian to Esmeraldas on the coast. The project met with opposition from environmentalists because of the damage caused to the cloud forest during construction of the pipeline, the threat of future exploitation of the Amazon region for oil, and the risk of pollution

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Production of integrated circuits

Production of integrated circuits. Repeatingrows of identical integrated circuits that havebeen mass-produced on a production line. Theelectronic semiconductor components (shiny, coloured) make up the square units on a basematerial (black). Holes (blue) have been punchedin the base material, and mark the corners of eachsquare unit. Integrated circuits are used in mostelectronic devices, such as computers. Techniquesof mass-production allow extremely accurateproduction of small integrated circuits, resultingin electronic devices that are both compact andreliable. Photographed in 1996

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