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...more fierce and primitive? These aboriginals of the Venezuelan and Brazilian Amazon, stars of Anthropology 101 and beneficiaries of rock-music fund raisers? Or the scholars, filmmakers, journalists and do-gooders who have studied them, publicized them and labored to "save" them for four decades? Last week the question ricocheted through academia as scientists responded to charges of fraudulent research, intellectual vendettas, sexual misbehavior and unethical experimentation that has spread disease and death through the Yanomami. "This nightmarish story [is] a real anthropological heart of darkness beyond the imagining of even a Joseph Conrad (though not, perhaps, a Josef Mengele...
...uproar was prompted by allegations in investigative journalist Patrick Tierney's upcoming book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. Tierney, author of an earlier book on human sacrifices among the Inca, spent 11 years researching the Yanomami's exposure to the outside world. In his most hotly contested charge, he claims that during a research project funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the late James Neel, a human geneticist at the University of Michigan, used a measles vaccine on the Yanomami that helped spread an epidemic, killing "hundreds, perhaps thousands" in a population...
...full boxing regimen at Gleason's Gym, began running two miles a day, and packed on more than 10 pounds to bulk up her frame. Undergoing rigorous training for five hours a day, six days a week, Rodriguez transformed herself from a reasonably fit woman into a muscular Amazon. "My whole body began to change," she says, taking a deep drag off an American Spirit cigarette. "I morphed into a powerful being...
...with everything from Palm computers and MP3 players to snack food and video games. The only pothole in Kozmo's bike path is the same one that has upset so many Web ventures: the money drain. While it nabbed $250 million in capital from investors, including $60 million from Amazon and an additional $25 million from Starbucks, Kozmo posted a loss of $26 million last year and laid off 10% of its 3,300 employees this summer. Analysts point to the high cost of operating a "last mile" delivery service, combined with the low $15 average order, as the service...
...earth itself. The difference in temperatures between the tropics and the poles drives the global climate system. The excess heat that collects in the tropics is dissipated at the poles, about half of it through what has been nicknamed the ocean conveyor, a vast deepwater current equivalent to 100 Amazon Rivers. Much of the rest of the heat is conveyed as energy in the storms that move north from the tropics. If the poles continue to warm faster than the tropics, the vigor of this planetary circulatory system may diminish, radically altering prevailing winds, ocean currents and rainfall patterns...