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The tiny (pop. 636) town of Barellan swelters in the middle of the hot wheat plains of New South Wales, Australia. The house on the edge of town is a ramshackle old weatherboard structure with peeling paint, broken-down cars in the yard and a scruffy pack of yapping mongrels...
The detective work began five years ago, when Australian National University's Dr. Robert Kirk collected blood specimens from a group of aborigines and sent samples to Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg at Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. Blumberg, who was studying the effects of frequent blood transfusions...
Without sumo wrestling, there might be no Japan. According to legend, the Japanese won their homeland in a sumo match between a Shinto god named Takemikazuchi and an aborigine. Takemikazuchi "crushed his opponent like grass" and thus took the deed to the Land of the Rising Sun.
The new interest in Captain Simonsen's enterprise has brought with it some special demands. One woman explorer wrote him that she and her two teen-age daughters were embarking on a two-year seafaring voyage along the aborigine-inhabited north coast of Australia-with no knowledge of boats...
Rose is a "civilized" Aborigine-which means that he was born under a roof. But the family "humpy" in Gippsland had no floor, no electricity, no toilet, no running water. And Rose's father, an itinerant "tent fighter" who made the rounds of country fairs and carnivals, boxing local...