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To: HiTech RedNeck
Still, they're better off now than before:

Besides slaying outsiders, the Waodani killed each other at the highest rate of any known group, University of Connecticut anthropology professor James Boster said. Before the missionaries came, they had dwindled to 600 and "were at the brink of cultural extinction," because such a small group can't sustain itself as a social unit, he said.

4 posted on 01/20/2006 3:52:42 AM PST by ovrtaxt (I looked for common sense with a telescope. All I could see was the moon of Uranus.)
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To: ovrtaxt

Saw the movie advertised on TV and really want to see it....opens in theaters Jan 20.
I'm so disapointed, doesn't seem to be playing around here.


8 posted on 01/20/2006 4:01:47 AM PST by slipper ("never thought I'd see the day in the United States when.........")
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