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Letter: Correction:

Published 25 December 1999

“Playing with Fire” by Shepard Krech (23 October, p56)
contains a phrase that should have been deleted during editing. The
phrase is in square brackets: “There is little argument that Native
Americans…[and hunted buffalo to extinction].”

Issue no. 2218 published 25 December 1999

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