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    Getting on a Bengals track would be good thing for Jaguars' future Oh, sure, Will Richard, Kyle Lofton, Myreon Jones and Alex Fudge occasionally have nice moments, but the truth is Florida has yet to find much success without Castleton doing an inordinate amount of heavy lifting. It’s not quite mythological figure Atlas having the world on his shoulders or LeBron James in his early years lifting the Cleveland Cavaliers to multiple NBA Finals, but you get the point. The Gators -- a tough defensive team, at least when not facing a high-powered offense like Alabama -- are so heavily dependent on Castleton as a scorer and rebounder that it’s hard to imagine what this team might look like if Golden hadn’t sold him on sticking around Gainesville one more year. Without Castleton, the Gators (13-11, 6-5 in SEC) might now be flirting with their first 20-loss season since Don DeVoe had a one-year trial run during the first Bush administration. Yes, Castleton is...

The Tsimane of Bolivia get most of their food from the river, the forest, or fields and gardens carved out of the forest.   I’m traveling with Asher Rosinger, a doctoral candidate who’s part of a team, co-led by biological anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University, studying the Tsimane to document what a rain forest diet looks like. They’re particularly interested in how the Indians’ health changes as they move away from their traditional diet and active lifestyle and begin trading forest goods for sugar, salt, rice, oil, and increasingly, dried meat and canned sardines. This is not a purely academic inquiry. What anthropologists are learning about the diets of indigenous peoples like the Tsimane could inform what the rest of us should eat. Rosinger introduces me to a villager named José Mayer Cunay, 78, who, with his son Felipe Mayer Lero, 39, has planted a lush garden by the river over the past 30 years. José leads us down a trail past trees laden with golden papa...