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...always come home to," she says. "In a foster home, once you're 18, you're out." Recalls Dale, a sculptor: "She said she wanted a family that would always be there for her and for somebody to walk her down the aisle when she got married. Her approach was very sincere...
...superannuation measures are sensible and overdue. It's the sort of house-keeping that was pro forma in the Hawke-Keating years; there was a lot to do, and the Labor leaders did most of it. Howard-Costello gradualism, however, is chamber music compared with their predecessors' hip-hop approach: mixing it up, three turntables on the go, to a Labor beat...
...That's not how it works now. In the cities of Australia, a typical scenario sees a group of teenage boys approach a group of girls at the beach. After some desultory conversation, the boys suggest an exchange of mobile-phone numbers. It's rare for a girl to say no, even if she doesn't like a guy. Better to give a fake number than make a scene. "I just kind of give it to anybody. I don't really think about it," says 15-year-old Kathleen. The boy's first text message might arrive the same night...
...Global Water Research Coalition project, due to be completed mid-next year, will make testing unnecessary. Rather than having to carry out hundreds of costly and time-consuming tests for contaminants and speculating on their possible effects, scientists using the "toolbox" will be able to take a much simpler approach, detecting biological effects on, say, fish or water insects and working backward to identify the causes...
...witnessed that same dogged approach to public health many years before, when he and I worked together in the early 1990s on eliminating polio in the Western Pacific?a daunting task made harder by a lack of funds and by long days without sleep...