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First Place
Randy Olson
Aurora / National Geographic Society
"Keepers of the Golden Fleece"  

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An unemployed Mingrelian geo physicist and his extended family can barely keep their 30 year old car running. In a country where pensions are $7 a month and salaries run at about $30 a month, there is an alarmingly high rate of suicide.
 
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