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To: Max Fletcher who wrote (4612)	4/8/2001 8:04:20 AM
From: Chris Forte	Respond to of 13724

Hey, let me guess...you chose me at random to suggest a head and brain transplant. Phew, that's what I thought. For a second I thought you were inferring something, and besides I hear that here at home all the time...<g> Chris ...and if the head fits, wear it. On second thought, maybe a monkey brain transplant for me might be a step in the right direction.

To: Max Fletcher who wrote (4612)	4/9/2001 9:32:24 AM
From: Chris Forte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13724

Based on the slope of my portfolio, this is where I expect to be living in six months... BRASILIA, Brazil, Apr 09, 2001 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- An expedition to a remote part of Brazil's Amazon has made contact with a tribe of indigenous Indians never exposed to Western society, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. A Team from the Brazilian Government's Federal Indian Bureau met with about 30 members of the Tsohon-djapa tribe in the Javari region for an hour over the weekend. The tribe already knew about white people, the BBC said. The area is home to other tribes with little exposure to the outside world. Signs of their existence were uncovered last year during an aerial survey that showed a previously undetected village with 16 long houses. The FIB team set off to find the tribe last month. At the time, team leader Sydney Possuelo said he wanted to get an idea of the area the Indians lived in, and then leave them alone, the BBC said. Contact was made to investigate rumors that the Tsohon-djapa were being ruled and exploited by the neighboring Canamaris tribe. "They had already had contact with our world through traded objects, but continued to live completely isolated," the BBC quoted Possuelo as saying. "We only made contact because the Indians were being exploited by the Canamaris and we are trying to see what we can do about it." Brazil is home to about 300,000 Indians. The FIB estimates that about 1,000 indigenous people live in 53 tribal cultures, in relative isolation from Western society. The bureau protects them from gold diggers, loggers and religious sects.