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The World in Pictures
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DIAGNOSIS: H PE
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| Elizabeth bryan was a slim, warm woman with springy blonde hair and a quick smile. Meeting her, you had a sense of enormous, forward-moving energy and humour.... |
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Cars in conversation
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| Cars have long been computers on wheels. Now technology is turning them into communication centres as well.
In the not-too-distant future, vehicles are likely... |
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Hearing voices . . . and other close encounters
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| I SPEND a lot of time in graveyards these days. On mornings when it’s too blustery to walk my dogs on the beach, I head for a cemetery. The towns of America’s... |
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Tuscan rays
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| SKATE is the common name given to edible rays and, as we all well know, some are capable of inflicting deadly injuries and electric s hocks. In classical... |
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Safari with a difference
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| After dark we sit around the campfire listening to the sounds of the Namibian bush. An owl calls, then comes the pulsating thrum of a nightjar, plus all the... |
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JOHN SAFRAN
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| Heading into the night after spending a long, confusing, ultimately illuminating first day with John Safran, the image that remains for me is overwhelmingly of... |
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Success: is it
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| What has played the greater role in your career: choice or chance? The traditional view of career development is that we must set goals and formulate career... |
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Premium economy
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| Platinum is one of the world’s most valuable elements, often associated with exclusive clubs and credit cards.
Now Kia has adopted the name for its flagship... |
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The best car never built?
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| The Felixicator 65X, of course. Students of motoring history might guess that this is a car that not only hasn’t been built but wasn’t even imagined until I... |
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Georgia on my mind
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| I’ve always thought that one of the most stupid things you can do is assemble your entire family under one roof. As far as I’m concerned, family gatherings are... |
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Mysteries of the Nile
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| News cables dispatched the story around the globe: English archaeologist Howard Carter had made the find of his life. By candlelight, he peered into a lost... |
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ROUNDABOUT JOURNEYFROM VWTOVW
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| What was your first car? It was a lime-green VW Beetle. I think every self-respecting first-year schoolteacher in Brisbane had a Beetle, so I joined the tribe.... |
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Two men walk into a sketch
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| TWO funny men in sharp suits are insulting each other in a grand hotel bar over sandwiches. ‘ ‘ We’ve only been working together for four days,’’ the first one... |
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Images of bliss amid tonal mist
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| MAX MELDRUM did not paint masterpieces. This alone is enough to distinguish him from the ranks of Australia’s most celebrated modern artists, who will be... |
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Devil in the details
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| Heather writes from Canberra seeking advice about her cover letter and CV. As a recent graduate, she has been frustrated in her attempts to secure a position.... |
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Emotional scars from bullying
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| Almost seven out of 10 adults who were bullied at school are left suffering from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness, research says. The Wesley report... |
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Code red fire warning for NSW
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| A CATASTROPHIC fire danger warning has been been issued for the west and south-west of the state today due to very hot, dry and windy conditions – the first... |
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Funeral was ‘the saddest thing you could imagine’
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| NINA SIMONE sang Here Comes The Sun as plainclothed policemen kept watch at the funeral yesterday for Chloe Waterlow, 37, who, with her father, Nick, 68, was... |
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Highways revisited in road company plan
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| A DAY after the State Government announced proposals for a big expansion of the M5 tollway and motorway in Sydney’s south-west, the Minister for Transport has... |
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Traffic experts say it will not relieve congestion in the long-term.
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| ever fall in the total number of passenger kilometres in private cars in 2007-08.
Dr Michelle Zeibots of the Institute for Sustainable Futures in the best... |
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Advertisers find a new voice in historic campaign
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| AUSTRALIAN advertising history will be made tonight with the screening of a television commercial featuring an indigenous language voiceover with English... |
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SOFT AND SAVVY: MOIRA GOES INTO BAT FOR DESPERATE CHILDREN
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| SHE’S passionate, genuine, gentle, insistent and unpredictable. She can front up to politicians, cajole bureaucrats, convince hospital administrators and... |
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Sympathy for the operator
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| SPARE a thought for the person on the line before you next hang up in frustration on a call-centre operator.
Constantly watched as managers pace up and down... |
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Day ‘the Trellis’ Ellis trounced Hulk Hogan
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| IT’S a demonstration of just how odd politics is at the moment that yesterday’s Canberra highlight was a public arm wrestle between the Sports Minister, Kate... |
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Senator keeps at the faith
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| IF THE major parties do not agree to an inquiry into Scientology, Nick Xenophon will just keep telling horror stories about the religion until they do.
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‘To have it sold in two years would be a bad outcome.’
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| cater for about 73,000 children.
Ms Lines said: “If there were better regulations about who could buy and sell and operate childcare centres, we would not... |
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Obama signals an endgame in Afghan war
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| Barack Obama has for the first time flagged the need for an endgame in the strategy for Afghanistan, saying he did not want to leave the next US president with... |
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President confident alleged September 11 linchpin will be executed
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| President Barack Obama has defended plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court, and predicted that the accused mastermind of the September 11... |
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Karzai promises to take graft and drugs seriously
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| Hamid Karzai was yesterday sworn in for a second fiveyear term as Afghanistan’s President, assuming leadership of a war-battered nation and a government that... |
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Anti-apartheid veteran leads Greenpeace
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| He grew up during South Africa’s apartheid era in an impoverished township in Durban, attended a school with no electricity and tattered textbooks and at 15... |
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‘Corruption is a very dangerous enemy of the state.’
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| and should be able to take control of security in the next five years.
He said a conference would be held soon in Kabul to consider ways to tackle corruption,... |
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US suspects investigated over Mumbai attack
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| Indian authorities are investigating whether two men recently arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges had a role in last November’s attacks in Mumbai that... |
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India warned it is being overtaken in English-language skills
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| India is falling behind in educating its people in English, a study has found.
India has a large pool of English speakers that has helped fuel the rapid... |
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Prosecution stalls on rebel’s autopsy photos
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| Prosecutors at the trial of Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires have refused to release 200 photographs of the body of her slain former lover, Alfredo... |
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Sri Lanka astrologer warns of falling star
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| With candles glowing next to his computer, Chandrasiri Bandara, Sri Lanka’s most popular astrologer, looked at his birth chart and predicted that he would soon... |
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