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Article: Buffaloed: Fighting the truth about American Indians.(evidence of cannibalism and other questionable practices by Native Americans vs. political correctness)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 9, 2000
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When NASA launched the cremated remains of scientist Eugene Shoemaker aboard the Lunar Prospector nearly three years ago, the last thing it expected was a controversy. Here was a fitting tribute to a man who taught Apollo astronauts about the moon's geology and helped discover the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that slammed into Jupiter. The probe containing his ashes was scheduled to scan the moon for signs of water, and then, mission accomplished 18 months later, crash into the lunar surface: a fitting graveyard for a fellow like Shoemaker.
And yet the controversy came-but not from budget hawks in Congress worried about NASA's payload. Instead, it came from ...