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January 16, 2001

Last Tuesday afternoon, Agus Tabuni, 11, was stooping to look for sweet potatoes in a forest near his village in Siloma, Kurima district, Irian Jaya. It’s a regular chore of his to find food for his family after school. Suddenly his eyes stopped at a piece of metal—a strange article in that part of the world. Similar to N!Xiau in the movie The Gods Must be Crazy, Agus hurriedly ran back along the footpath for a kilometer and gave t

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