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When the Kansas Board of Education voted recently to eliminate evolution from the state science curriculum, the sophisticates had quite a yuk. One editorial cartoon had an ape reclining in a tree telling his mate, "We are descended from the Kansas School Board." The decision has been widely derided as a sign of resurgent Middle American obscurantism, a throwback to the Scopes "monkey trial...
...authorities, the smuggling took off several years ago when Canada lowered its cigarette tax. Until then much of the reservation's cash came from buying cheap cigarettes in the States and selling them illegally in Canada. "You could make 600% on a case of cigarettes," says Mohawk Charlie Little Tree. "When that ended, people became the easiest commodity." Little Tree is now facing charges for smuggling aliens; his son is already serving time for the same offense...
...Little Tree estimates that at least 1,000 of the 8,000 Mohawks currently living on the reserve are involved in the trade. The reservation has an unemployment rate of almost 40%. "There are some big guys in it, maybe 100, but mostly it is kids or anyone else who needs money to fix a car or go on a date," says Little Tree. "They can pick up $500 for a few minutes' work...
Then one Christmas, in the process of trying to round up a Christmas tree for the Deke house, Bush and some fraternity brothers cast their eyes on a wreath hanging in front of a local store. The Deke house could use just such a wreath, they decided...
Even Gore's room wasn't spectacular. "We just looked out on a big tree," Somerby says...