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...optimistic outlook on life is part and parcel of the training. The real and the fantastic mix even more bizarrely in the famous Disney Matterhorn bobsled ride which takes place in a replica of the mighty Matterhorn. The ride was recently closed following a wave of decapitations of sled occupants in the midst of their escapism. The sophisticated technology of Disneyland's attractions, combined with the all-encompassing concept of the park, covering all the realms of experience, adventure, fantasy, Tomorrow, Mainstreet USA (with more coming) has given birth to nothing less than our first global village. In this village...
...Neakok. "You hardly see anyone in furs any more; now they have fancy corduroy parkas." There are still a few in Barrow who carve the ivory tusks of walrus into artful figures, but that also is going, and the settlement's 400 snowmobiles have entirely replaced the dog sled. About the only thing that has survived from the old days is the hunt. The men still hunt whales from fragile little boats made from animal skins. They also stalk walrus, seal, polar bear and caribou. But now they use high-powered rifles to bring down their prey...
...Eskimo Ishmael who finally finds himself alone after the disintegration of his community. To Avinga and his fellow Eskimos, the rescued white men are almost fascinatingly ugly. They refer to them as kalunait (literally, "people with the heavy eyebrows"), the legendary offspring of a wayward Eskimo girl and a sled dog. Yet they tolerate the white men's minor barbarities and breaches of courtesy with indulgent understanding...
...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's back...
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...