Word: australian
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With various Australian sites looking dead in the water and attempts to frolic in Hawaii possibly beached because of Teamsters conflicts, Baywatch is still looking for its next port of call. Executive producer Greg Bonann says no decisions have yet been finalized as to where the show will drop anchor next season. In other words, it's not too late to bag Baywatch for your hometown, provided it fits the bill...
...specimen of Fleming's mold made its way into the hands of a team of scientists at Oxford University led by Howard Florey, an Australian-born physiologist. This team had technical talent, especially in a chemist named Ernst Boris Chain, who had fled Nazi Germany. Armed with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, these scientists made it their objective to identify and isolate substances from molds that could kill bacteria. The mission was inspired by the earlier work of Gerhard Domagk, who in 1935 showed that the injection of a simple compound, Prontosil, cured systemic streptococcal infections. This breakthrough demonstrated that...
Plus--need it be said?--the human sexual impulse, like that of the bonobo, is not as tightly coupled to reproduction as certain pro-family moralists like to think. Even in so-called primitive hunter-gatherer societies, such as that of the Australian Aborigines, women have always managed to invent forms of contraception--herbal drinks, pessaries to block the cervix, oils to bog down the sperm. Then there is homosexuality, a reproductively senseless but nevertheless deeply compelling sexual strategy for millions of both sexes. Not to mention masturbation, celebrated by rapper Foxy Brown's chart-topping song...
...south of Australia, in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, her boat was overcome by a monumental wave and rolled a full 360[degrees]. Its rigging and even a chunk of its deck were stripped off. Had Autissier not been belowdecks, she would have been swept overboard. The Australian air force watched over her for four days until a navy frigate arrived to pluck a weeping Autissier from the water...
...third piece was, once again, a huge leap in an entirely different direction. Called "Below Down Under," and choreographed to the buzzing, eerie sounds of the Australian didgeridoo by Laszlo Berdo, one of the company's own principal dancers, this was without a doubt the most exciting and breathtaking piece of dance that I have ever seen...