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...Your article on compression fractures of the vertebrae, "Snowmobiler's Back" [March 15], struck a responsive chord. For several years now I have been studying the vertebrae of Canadian Eskimo skeletons recovered from archaeological sites, some of these dating back a thousand years. One of the things noted was an extremely high frequency of compression fractures, with 45% of the adults having at least one fractured vertebra. The cause became quickly apparent the first time I rode on an Eskimo sled. The sled, of course, has no springs, and the jarring is transmitted directly to the rider...
Today many Eskimos are abandoning their dog teams in favor of snowmobiles, but the compression-fracture problem, it seems, will still be with them. Particularly vulnerable will be the poor fellow who rides a sled towed behind the snowmobile, a common Eskimo practice...
...Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends, to be busy...
...been rained out took shelter under the open walled shelter of the Fairbanks picnic area one evening, waiting out the shower before riding his bike home. His great-grandfather had been one of the early Alaskan bush-pilots; his father is a carpenter, and his mother is an Eskimo (or Alaskan Native, as all Alaskan Indians and Eskimos are called) from a large Eskimo village to the North. He was a bright and talkative kid who enjoyed telling stories about the winter hunting and trapping trips he makes with his father; flying their small plane up to their small cabins...
...Barrow-and she said she remembered a legend she'd heard about the Northern Lights. It said that if you chanted these certain words, the lights would get brighter. So she said these words, it sounded like mumbles to me, 'mboo hom mom,' or something, I don't understand Eskimo language-and then the lights got brighter." He shrugged, smiling. "They really...