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...usually stoic atmosphere at Sanders Theatre was lifted by the acclaimed South American band Inca Son Friday night, on hand to perform a benefit concert to help restore a Peruvian church...
...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...
...main streets of Cuzco, the majestic Inca capital of Peru, are still slumbering in the half-light between dawn and day as minibuses and taxis take tourists to the small San Pedro rail station. There, behind the chaotic stalls of the city market, crowds jostle in the entrance waiting for the three services that run from Cuzco to the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. The most comfortable and costly of the three services is the one-stop, 3 1/4-hour Inca service that leaves Cuzco at 6:15 a.m. daily for Machu Picchu. For railroad buffs, this 70-mile Cuzco...
...modern standards, the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco, in the Argentine Andes, is no place for kids. The ancient Inca saw things differently though, and so it was that one day, some 500 years ago, three children ascended the frigid and treacherous upper slopes of the 22,000-ft. peak. The three had spent time at the 17,000-ft. level, taking part in rituals that can only be guessed at. Now, accompanied by a retinue of adults, they moved steadily upward. They would not return. Once at the summit, the children--two girls and a boy, between eight...
...Hiram Bingham finds Machu Picchu, a 15th century Inca settlement high in the Peruvian Andes...