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...narrow tribe of men ... No: our blood is as the flood of the Amazon, made up of a thousand noble currents all pouring into one. We are not a nation so much as a world...
...former fashion model, an author (Amazon Odyssey), and a radical feminist who collected as much as $ 1,500 per speech on the lecture circuit. Ti-Graee Atkinson, 37, is something more. "I'm broke," she announced last week, after receiving her first New York City welfare check. The reason? Those well-paying speaking engagements have apparently gone the way of student sit-ins and antiwar marches. She had applied for menial jobs, too, she noted, "But people say I'm too old or too famous or too hot to handle." Atkinson, who has delivered plenty of barbs...
...problem now is Brazil's highway-building program, which is lacing the vast Amazon region with roads, including the trans-Amazon highway stretching 2,843 miles from Recife on the Atlantic Coast to the Peruvian border...
Last Refuge. Unfortunately, the Amazon Basin is the last refuge for tribes like the Waimiri and Atroari. "The Indians resent the speed and aggressiveness with which the road is being built," says João Americo Peret, a Brazilian Indian expert. "But since they can't confront the road-building machines, they take it out on the FUNAI people...
...much for the Indians, viewing them as embarrassing and obstructive Stone Age remnants in an increasingly modern state. The Waimiris and Atroaris understand only too well that modern Brazil, with its population of 100 million, will encroach ever more rapidly on Indian land. They know too that the trans-Amazon highway threatens to be more devastating than any of the slave traders or gold miners who upset their lives in the past...