While fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, Sana Hassan finds the regular duties associated with being a mother a little more difficult. After a long day of work while fasting, Sana plays with her son, Mohammed after picking up her children up from school and riding the train with them.

Terry Steward of Weiser holds the bullet that was buried three centimeters deep in his leg after his convoy was ambushed in Iraq Sept. 20. He was driving a truck for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root when he suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his legs and pelvis. 'It's my hope and my prayer that KBR gives him a safer place to work,' said Darlene Steward, Terry's wife.

Nathan Gebert, 6, hoists over his head the lawn sprinkler he and his friends were playing in at a neighborhood gathering on South Clara Street as part of National Night Out in Appleton, Wis., on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006.

Thailand’s AIDS prevention has been revered as one of the most efficient models in Southeast Asia. By using public-education and safe-sex promotion in the red-light districts, Thailand drastically reduced the number of people being infected with AIDS in the last ten years. Today, however, the epidemic has shifted from sex workers into the everyday society: teens, mothers, fathers, and children. Two or three patients are bathed at a time on a daily basis by the nurses and volunteers at Wat Prabat Nampu. The temple hospice has limited resources, but the staff, volunteers, and patients do the best with what they have.

New Beginnings, New Life Church in Plano, TX meets every Sunday at the Plano Center. The church began in the living room of the pastor's house, and has since grown. The church's ambition is to some day have it's own brick-and-mortar church.

Exchange student Ewelina Berdysz, 24, works as a lifeguard at Pickerell Park pool, Tuesday, July 25, 2006 in Schertz. Berdysz is from Znin (punctuation note: single dot on top of 'Z'), Poland. Schertz has hired a number of exchange students this summer as lifeguards.