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THE SECOND VULTURE:

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  In the 1990's there was a widely circulated photo of a vulture waiting for a starving little gìrĺ to dìè and feast on her corp. That photo was taken during the 1993/94 famine in Sudan, by Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for this 'amazing shot'.. However, as Kevin Carter was savouring his feat and being celebrated on major news channels and networks worldwide for such an 'exceptional photographic skill', he lived just for a few months to enjoy his supposed achievemnt and fame, as he later got dèprèssèd and took his own life! Kevin Carter's dèprèssion started, when during one of such interviews (a phone-in programme), someone called in and asked him what happened to the little gìrĺ. He simply replied, "I didn't wait to find out after this sh0t, as I had a flight to catch..." Then the caller said, "I put it to you that there were two vultures on that day, one had a camera". *Thus, his constan...