Whitney Curtis

Moments

Manjeri, 55, works on her farm north of Gulu, Uganda.
   
Stephanie Malloy and Tom Nowak relax in a truck bed and listen to the Cubs game on the radio before the start of the movie "The Benchwarmers" Friday night at the Cascade Drive-In in West Chicago, Ill.
   
Girls reach skyward for a soccer ball at Zion Project, a home for Congolese orphans in Gulu, Uganda.
     
  
Dana Clark, 8, plays at Cuivre River State Park near Troy, Mo.
  
Buildings are reflected in the window of a closed and almost empty antiques store in Hannibal, Mo.
   
An employee gathers shopping carts in the parking lot of Wal-Mart Store No. 1 in Rogers, Ark. Store No. 1 opened in the small, northwest Arkansas town in 1962.
     
  
Prissy Traczewitz, left, and Pam Ried have lunch with other ladies at Table Mesa in Bentonville, Ark.
   
Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, right, and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., participate in a vice presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis
  
Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks to supporters during a rally under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
     
  
Presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks during a rally in O'Fallon, Missouri.
  
James Harris plays pool at the Pink Galleon in south St. Louis County. The bar features a couple dozen pink-topped pool tables.
   
Congolese girls wait for school to commence at Pece School in Gulu, Uganda.
     
  
A 2-month-old baby with gastroenteritis sleeps atop a Bible in the pediatric ward at Choscal Hospital in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The non-governmental organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres staffs physicians and nurses at the hospital.