Photo / Khuzestan Salt Field, Iran, 1999

"In the southwestern province of Khuzestan, Nahid and Hussein Saboee collect salt after school to sell to bakers. The good news: 85 percent of Iran's children go to school, and 80 percent of the population is literate, versus less than half before the 1979 revolution."

—From "Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform," July 1999, National Geographic magazine