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There is a palpable increase in tension among staff at Beijing's hippest new eatery, Capital M, when Michelle Garnaut strolls in on a wintry evening, and it's hardly surprising. That's her initial in the restaurant's name, and the 51-year-old Australian is an industry celebrity - the pioneer of China's fashionable-dining scene, whose invariably popular ventures occupy iconic locations in their chosen cities. By her own account, Garnaut has come a long way from being a woman "famous for my bad temper" and a "detail-obsessed" micromanager who "drove everyone crazy." These days, "have...
Russi began scolding the hostages. If they didn't want to cooperate, they could stay on the ground for all he cared. The problem was that most of the prisoners seemed prepared to do just that. As the argument grew louder, the fake Australian delegate noticed Keith, Marc, and Tom off to one side. Maybe the gringos would listen to reason. He pleaded with the Americans to collaborate...
...have started committing significant funds to tribal research and education projects. This is happening in tandem with recent grass-roots efforts to defend native tongues. "There are signs of a growing global movement to revitalize these languages - and in unlikely places, from inner cities in North America to the Australian Outback," says Harrison...
...American journalists, too, are singled out. Last October, an English-language Lahore newspaper, The Nation, accused a Wall Street Journal correspondent of working simultaneously for the CIA, the Israeli spy agency Mossad and, to top it off, Blackwater. A Pakistani daily also ran a photo of two British and Australian journalists at the site of a suicide bombing and insinuated that they were foreign spies...
...human-rights groups, those measures have also failed to alleviate the problems facing Aboriginal children, who are still over-represented in the child-protection system. Indigenous children are nine times as likely to be cared for by people outside their immediate family than non-indigenous kids, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Kate Valentine, the AIHW spokeswoman, told ABC News that the reasons behind this are complex. "They involve factors such as the intergenerational effects of previous separations and poorer socioeconomic status." (See pictures of Tiwi Islanders, who live off northern Australia...