Word: beyond
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...earth. They have seen their national animal, the kangaroo, only in a zoo or as roadkill on the Hume Highway. Nearly 90% of us live on the coast, not in the outback, wherever that elusive place may be defined as being. (The "bush" is outside the suburbs, the "outback" beyond the bush, and the "black stump" is the word for a very remote datum point, as in, "He lives way out there beyond the black stump.") Our country towns are in decline. Their inhabitants keep moving to the coast, away from the center. Because Australia has no fertile center...
...pages actually. Two pages a week. It's pretty apparent from the first hundred pages or so, which are almost impossible to slog through, but once beyond that point it starts to take root. At least I hope...
...when pop culture raises the dead, it also raises a tension between faith and logic. Even for the secular, accepting death often involves a belief, absent proof, about the undiscovered country beyond life. These programs fill a hunger, sneered at by hip media insiders, for soul food, but they also risk oversimplifying an eternal conundrum. Offering easy evidence of something beyond, however heartwarming, runs counter to faith. And faith--religious or otherwise--is all most of us have to make do with...
...summer, 2004? With what result? No point in saying that politicians making out have to leave the door ajar, and the lights on. In Los Angeles, the global door was open and the lights were blinding. Al and Tipper's performance was the work of a society relentlessly evolving beyond the need for privacy (and maybe for reticence...
...neither man has the power to give such promises: Nigeria is pumping all the oil it can, so it has no power to trim prices beyond exhorting its OPEC colleagues to join in. And since the United States only holds about 4 percent of Nigeria's debt, its ability to reduce the other 96 percent, beyond Clinton's rhetoric, is marginal. While the Nigerian government may know that, the people don't: A recent poll in a Lagos daily paper said 79.6 percent of those responding believe Clinton's visit would result in "huge benefits" - primarily debt relief - to Nigeria...