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...collectors' latest hunting ground is along the Sepik River. Dubbed the Amazon of the Pacific, the river writhes and loops 1,100 km from the country's heart through some of the wildest and most inaccessible terrain on earth. Cutting through mountain ranges, international borders, steamy jungles, swamps, lakes and flood plains, the Sepik monster nurtures some of p.n.g.'s most ancient tribes, who still live in tiny stilt huts and brave the river's treacherous currents, and large saltwater crocodiles, in their slender carved canoes...
...working late to ensure they're ready to meet the first voters when polling begins at 7 a.m. Curragh leaves the vehicle to caution one of chief Daga's buddies, who is drinking beer by the side of the road. After some coaxing, the man empties onto the ground a full bottle he has been carrying in his back pocket. "He knows it's against the law," says Curragh of the middle-aged man. "Look at all the young people he's with. I told him to go straight home...
...What has riveted archaeologists since the 2003 discovery of this ancient cemetery at Teouma, on the main island of Efate, is that it's not only the oldest burial ground ever found in the region but dates back around 3,000 years - to when people first arrived in this part of the world. Never before has such a large collection of skeletal remains from these early wanderers, known as the Lapita people, been found. Excavations by an international team working with the Vanuatu National Museum began last year, followed by a second, more extensive dig, which finished last week...
...traveled to Hiroshima this year to photograph the hibakusha and record their stories. Seventy agreed to pose, some holding childhood photos or pictures of family members killed in the bombing. The survivors wrote their names in white marker next to their portraits and recorded how far they were from ground zero on Aug. 6. Taken together, the pictures are striking reminders of the bomb's life-altering effects. And they bear witness to the human capacity to withstand the worst ravages...
...ground, half a mile from where the bomb dropped, Michiko Yamaoka, then a 15-year-old student, saw the same flash. Today she describes it as like a burst of light from an unearthly photo shoot, big enough to cover the sky, "blue-yellow and very beautiful." Yamaoka was blown off her feet. When she came to, she had burns all over her body, and, she says, she could "hear people calling out for help and the crackle of fire coming from burning houses ... people moaning from pain, with eyes popped out and intestines coming out of their stomachs...