Word: australian
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...worthy effort. "Even if it's not going to help him, it will help other people in the future and we all need this," he said.ReutersMAKING A POINTAn anti-uranium mining protester wearing a gas mask stands atop a banner covering a pile of barrels outside the Australian Prime Minister's Sydney office...
...four days I was off to Nairobi to lead safari tours in the African jungle and study subsistence farming in low-salt areas. On June 8, I flew down to Australia to do thesis research on venereal disease in Sydney's elderly population. Picked up a couple of thousand Australian dollars and some sort of aboriginal chicken pox along...
This trio includes Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey, never more engagingly slippery), who is the technical adviser to a Dragnet-like TV show and is becoming a celebrity in his own right; Bud White (Australian actor Russell Crowe), who's a sweet, plodding sort of guy unless someone visits violence on women, which turns him into a raging brute; and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce, another Aussie), the departmental priss and spoilsport, thoroughly despised by everyone, as moral centers of amoral enterprises should be--until they turn out to have been right all along...
Brothers have big mouths. After a couple of coy attempts by Elle Macpherson to evade questions on whether she's pregnant, her brother Brendan Gow told the Australian Associated Press that she was, and their father confirmed it. And what kind of fellow was man enough to sire a child with the Body? A wealthy European financier, natch: Arpad ("Arkie") Busson, her boyfriend of 18 months...
...civil war all but destroyed Cambodia's frail, poorly funded cultural infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around...