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November 10, 2001
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Byline: Fred J. Eckert

EASTER ISLAND - "You probably have seen many places that are a lot more interesting than this island," guide Yan Araki says. Not many, I tell him.

Mr. Araki knows I have roamed all over this wide world and is asking me questions about different places he thinks might be interesting.

The 28-year-old guide was educated in Britain and is a son of a Chilean doctor; his mother is from Easter Island.

"That's a pretty scene, isn't it? - those horses out in the field," he says as we head toward a spot called Ahu Akivi.

We are driving down a narrow road lined with stonewall borders and looking out at some ...

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