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...cliché that sport imitates life is a stretch. But sport does reveal what makes a winner. Above everything else - talent, training, luck - it's tenacity, like that shown at the Australian Open by tennis players Li Na and Zheng Jie. They made history by being the first Chinese, indeed the first Asians, to take half the semifinal places in a Grand Slam singles event. It was irrelevant whether the two would progress further in the tournament - their feat was already a huge achievement in a game long dominated by the West. Now the smart money is on China displaying...
...Australian chef david thompson has a dry sense of humor, so when he describes his 370-page whopper of a cookbook as "by no means exhaustive," you take it with a pinch of salt. Actually, make that a splash of fish sauce. For this is Thai Street Food, Thompson's passionate and meticulous tribute to one of the world's great curbside cuisines. Thais not only snack between mealtimes, they snack between snacks. And who wouldn't, when almost every street is what Thompson calls a "delicious obstacle course...
Putting a smile on chubby faces everywhere, a new study by Australian researchers finds that being overweight may be a boon for the elderly: among the 9,240 adults ages 70 to 75 in the study, those who were overweight were the least likely to die over 10 years, compared with people who were of normal weight or obese...
...report produced last year by England's Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases found a 29% increase in complaints, and in 2006, an Australian entomological study estimated that Sydney was losing $100 million a year in tourism revenue because of an outbreak of the pests...
...when the news emerged this month that a Loire Valley producer had been smacked down by an Australian tribunal for apparently trying to pass off its sauvignon blanc as a New Zealand brand by labeling it Kiwi Cuvée, critics were quick to revel in the irony. Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper called it a "humiliating blow to Gallic pride," while the Wall Street Journal said that France had gotten a "dose of its own medicine." But the French may have been less guilty of applying double standards than of using the same kind of savvy marketing strategies that...