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| | Perihelion: PROJECT NEWS: SELF Brings Solar Power to an Amazon Rainforest Ecological Reserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The Reserve’s inhabitants, the Caboclo Indians, have never used an electric light bulb, and as a matter of routine, kindle an evening fire and light their kerosene lamps. |
 | | The Caboclos treasure the fragile ecosystem in which they live, and as a result have created the Amazon Association, an organization whose intent is to preserve and protect the rainforest ecology. |
 | | Within moments of plugging it in, the local Caboclo Indians were having measurements of blood pressure, body temperature, pulse, and blood-oxygen uploaded via satellite to the Telemedicine Center at the University of East Carolina (in North Carolina) for remote analysis. |
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