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The Man Who Remembers
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PROFILE of anthropologist Giancarlo Scoditti and the island of Kitawa. Kitawa is an island located at the outer edge of the Trobriand Islands. Italian …

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REPORTER AT LARGE about Atlanta, Georgia. Margaret Mitchell's house on Peachtree St. in midtown Atlanta was a burned-out shell of a three-story …