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...drive each morning to Riversleigh. Only one of the sites - D site - is open to the public. None of the others is marked, and their precise locations are kept secret to thwart looters and vandals. In all directions as far as the eye can see, Riversleigh is piles of stone, spinifex, scraggy trees and termite mounds. Apart from local Aborigines and the odd ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep. "This guy," says Frank Nissen, a surveyor...
...wears a shirt and tie, but Michael Stutchbury's a digger by trade. Not of earth or stone, but of secrets and deals, happenings and plans, of the movements and moments that can change governments, societies and the way people think. It's what journalists can unearth that drives the Australian newspaper's editor; "lifting those flat rocks and seeing what creepy crawlies are under there," as he puts it. Stutchbury sits at a desk buried in paper, blinds drawn, looking out over his newsroom, a large, open-spaced office filled with clocks, cluttered desks, chattering televisions and people hunched...
Building Bridges The fabled Stari Most (Old Bridge) at Mostar reopened last week - more than four centuries after it was first erected, and a decade after it was deliberately destroyed by Croat tank shells during the Bosnian war. The white stone span, built under orders from Suleiman the Magnificent, weathered centuries of turmoil and was a meeting place of East and West, Islam and Christianity, before being obliterated in 1993. As that loss became a symbol of the brutality and pointlessness of the Bosnian conflict, the bridge's reconstruction - funded by the U.S., Turkish, Italian, Dutch and Croat governments, among...
...Most people thought I’d leave in two years and go back to Harvard,” Loveman told The McKinsey Quarterly last year. “They thought this would be like a kidney stone: It would hurt for a while, and then it would pass...
...back to bed. He was bad, and she was worse. He went for long jogs; she lost herself in the Weather Channel. Edwards began attending Bible fellowship classes. Over time, the couple pulled themselves together by focusing on how to best remember their son. They settled on a long stone bench for a picnic area at Wade's high school--designed to suggest a comet with its short but bright life. They plowed hundreds of thousands of dollars into a building across the street to provide after-school assistance to any student who needed...