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Yuri Kozyrev
TIME Magazine

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David Guttenfelder
The Associated Press

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John Moore
Getty Images

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Ed Ou
Getty Images

Second Place
David Guttenfelder
The Associated Press

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"AFGHANISTAN OPIUM WARS"

A U.S. Marine's uses a handheld digital device to scan the iris of a farmer who cultivates poppies in Helmand Province, where most of Afghanistan's opium is grown. Coalition personnel use the scans and other biometric measurements to create identity cards that they compare against a security database.