Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Lemrick Nelson Jr. was acquitted nearly two years ago in the racially motivated stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum, an Australian Hasidic scholar, Rosenbaum's friends were, naturally, upset...
...theory was neat and tidy -- as long as everyone overlooked the holes. One problem: if advanced tools were H. erectus' ticket out of Africa, why are they not found everywhere the travelers went? Alan Thorne, of the Australian National University in Canberra, suggests that the Asian H. erectus built advanced tools from something less durable than stone. "Tools made from bamboo," he observes, "are in many ways superior to stone tools, and more versatile." And bamboo, unlike stone, leaves no trace after a million years...
...Chernin has come to this kibbutz, a small collective of fifty people who are of various nationalities and all under thirty , upon the suggestion an Australian friend, Devora whom she knows there. The kibbutzniks have build up a community based on egalitarian collective effort and who arrived together on a pre-determined date, to live, work and study Hebrew. They must bend the rules to take her in. And they do, for that is the type of woman Chernin is, or was, at least: someone for whom the rules are ignored...
Odds and ends: Still no sign of Monica Seles, two weeks after the conclusion of the Australian Open, the tournament that was supposed to mark her return to women's tennis. Maybe she's waiting for Nancy and Tonya to get out of her spotlight...Great to see Scott Hoch win another golf tournament last weekend in the Bob Hope Chryseler Classic. Hoch "as in choke, who blew a two-foot putt that would have won him the 1989 Masters, won for the first time since that fateful season, and in light of his top-six finish last year...
...Australian Bush Fires...