The March of Progress
A woman watches the construction of the titanic Three Gorges Dam from the banks of the Yangtze. The biggest of its kind in the world, the dam will submerge hundreds of historic towns and waterways upstream as the Yangtze rises


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  PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES WHITLOW DELANO/CORBIS SABA

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