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...addition to the witnesses against Obara, police discovered hospital receipts linking him to a former Roppongi hostess, an Australian named Carita Ridgeway. In 1992 he took a gravely ill Ridgeway to Hideshima hospital, telling nurses she had eaten bad shellfish. Ridgeway was erroneously diagnosed as suffering from liver failure as a result of eating seafood tainted with the virus that causes hepatitis. After she died a few days later, Obara even comforted her parents when they came to take her body home. Due to an administrative fluke, Ridgeway's liver had been preserved at Tokyo Women's Hospital, where...
...Eastern Baltic, for instance, foragers traded seal fat, amber, slate and flint for the farmers' pottery and grain. In coastal regions where oysters or other shellfish were plentiful, foragers felt no particular compulsion to take up the tasks of horticulture. Where farming did spread, he says, it was often through a process of gradual adoption by hunter-gatherers rather than continual migration of farmers. "Gene flow just doesn't correspond to the cultural patterns," he says...
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...before being sprayed onto fields. Those fields, the lawsuits charge, can't absorb the untreated waste - an alleged "witch's brew of nearly 400 volatile organic compounds and toxic poisons" - fast enough. Some of it rains down or seeps into waterways, where it causes algal blooms, fish kills and shellfish diseases, according to the suit...
...down your throats, we deserve it. But I really can't find it in my heart to excuse CBS for Episode 2's immunity challenge, in which the contestants must eat "true Aboriginal food, what they call bush tucker." The mangrove worm, the wichity grub, the bug and the shellfish are all fair enough, says Ian Lilley, of the University of Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit. But cow brain and the lining of a cow's stomach? Kids, there were no cows before the white man came along. This stuff makes great television, no doubt about...