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Mali Desert Video In the West African desert, gathering and hauling salt is a grueling task, not left for the meek.Welcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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- Art of the Deal - How to get the best price in a Morocco market? Negotiate! Here's how.
- Bee Therapy - Can bee stings cure arthritis, or MS? Meet some people in Taiwan willing to endure hundreds of bee stings to cure what ails them.
- Black Magic - In the Sonora witches' market, witch doctors peddle their cures. And in back rooms behind the stalls, nearly anything is possible.
- Blood Feud - A mediator works for peace in a country where killing for honor is reinforced by family and community.
- Body Collecting - A volunteer team of body collectors believe they'll get spiritual merit for carefully handling corpses.
- Body Farm - It's a field filled with rotting corpses. But no one is burying these bodies just yet.
- Bone Stretching - In China a painful surgical procedure called "bone stretching" can make someone taller ... but is it worth the risk?
- Coffin Maker - In part of Ghana, eye-catching coffins have become popular. Meet a man who makes them unique.
- Coober Pedy - In Australia's outback, hardy prospectors search for a fortune in opals.
- Creature Cures - South African medicine men move traditional cures into the 21st century.
- Cremation - In India, only members of a lower caste can touch dead bodies. And it is these people who must perform cremations.
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- Eunuchs - In India, nearly half a million people live as eunuchs, not a man or woman, but considered an entirely separate gender.
- Fulani - For a young Fulani cattle herder in Mali, a long journey with his herd becomes a test of manhood, and his planned marriage could hinge on the outcome.
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- Maggots - Hundreds of maggots are used to clean a woman's open wound.
- Male Plastic Surgery - Plastic surgery isn't just for American women. See how one man goes under the knife to enhance his backside.
- Mali Desert - In the West African desert, gathering and hauling salt is a grueling task, not left for the meek.
- Martin Guitars - In the small town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, the Martin Guitar Company has been producing guitars that are the gold standard for professional and amateur musicians. Take a video tour of the factory.
- Paraguayan Shaman - Search for a cure to cancer, migraines, and diabetes in the rapidly deteriorating rain forests of Paraguay.
- Restoring the Torah - From the Holocaust to Hurricane Mitch, find out how this torah was saved.
- Rice Farmer - A Tanzanian family waits for the rains to replenish their rice crop.
- Sewer Diving - Meet the man who swims through human excrement, toxic waste, and rotting cadavers to keep Mexico City's wastewater where it belongs.
- Sex Change - Dawn began life as Danny, but eventually travels to Thailand for an operation to fully transform from male to female.
- Ski Patrol - Join the ski patrol at Utah's Snowbird Resort in the Wasatch Mountains, and learn how being a member of this elite force requires more than just emergency medical training.
- Tuareg Farmer - Farmers in Mali make the Sahel bloom and attract a plague of giant elephants.
- Witch Cleanser - A witch cleanser in Zimbabwe is part prosecutor and part priest, exposing those who practice witchcraft.
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