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Local folktales on the Indonesian island of Flores, some 350 miles west of Bali, tell of a race of shy little people--South Seas leprechauns who inhabited the limestone caves that dot the island, accepting gourds full of food that the Floresians would set out for them. It wasn't until Dutch traders arrived in the 1500s, according to the legends, that the diminutive race finally disappeared...
Western scientists have long dismissed these stories as pure fancy, but now they are having second thoughts. In a report that rocked the world of paleoanthropology last week, a team of Australian and Indonesian scientists announced in Nature that they had discovered that a tribe of tiny humans, only about 3 ft. tall, did indeed live in the caves of Flores. Digging into the sediments on the floor of a cave called Liang Bua, the team found bones from seven individuals, including the nearly intact skeleton of an adult female they nicknamed the Hobbit. And while there's no proof...
Reasoning that caves would be the best places in which to find undisturbed fossils, team leaders Michael Morwood of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and R.P. Soejono from the Indonesian Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta decided to dig in Liang Bua, in the western part of the island. Limited excavations there had revealed evidence of human habitation...
...TIME: How will you deal with Jemaah Islamiah, the network of Islamic militants blamed for bombings in Bali and Jakarta, and the radical religious schools linked to those found responsible? YUDHOYONO: This will require communication and the right approach, so that law enforcement will not be misunderstood [by the Indonesian public] as the government's doing something unfair toward certain individuals or religious schools. I will review the steps being taken to deal with terrorism by the judicial, intelligence and police bodies to determine what actions need to be taken to eliminate terrorism, including the position of Jemaah Islamiah...
...Many in Bali are still traumatized by the bombings their island experienced, which left 202 people dead and hundreds more injured or maimed for life. Like many of the Indonesian women who lost their husbands, Endang was a housewife with little education and few skills before the atrocity. But with the help of the government, private charities and concerned individuals, six of the Bali widows, as they are now known, have set up a sewing cooperative that allows them to pay their rent and support their children. Others have learned hairdressing at a new salon, while some sell handicrafts...