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The Boys at the Center of a Famous Scientist's Research

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D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. In the course of three decades, he brought dozens of boys from the Pacific Islands to live with him in the United States. Gajdusek cast the arrangement in philanthropic as well as anthropological terms, but the reality was darker. What became of the boys he brought to America has never been fully reported—until now.
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