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...Black Saturday bushfires, the worst natural disaster in the continent's recorded history. The deadly combination of scorching temperatures and dry northwesterly winds from central Australia's parched desert caused fires that spread over 1 million acres (413,000 hectares), killing 173 people. Over 2000 homes were reduced to ash, dozens of towns were emptied of their populations and native wildlife was cremated on a devastating scale. The intense heat boiled 200,000 trout alive in their ponds outside of Marysville, the town worst hit by the fires. (See pictures of the koala rescue effort during the fires...
...last year, 113 out of the 173 deceased died in their homes. The "stay or go" approach has a long history in rural Australia, and gradually became official policy after the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires in southeastern Australia. "If someone was present in a house, it had a 90% chance of surviving the fire - protecting the occupants in the process - while many perished leaving at the last minute," says John Handmer, director of the Centre for Risk and Community Safety at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology who conducted a review of the 'stay or go' policy for the Bushfire...
...Indeed, it wasn't until the overthrow of Marcos in the mid-1980s that artists were freed of the burden of representing the Philippines. "After Marcos left, the scene exploded and became plural," says Toh. Ranging from the dark paintings of Javier, whose lonely ash-gray landscapes owe as much to film noir as to Manila's inescapable haze, to the surrealism of Ventura, Philippine art has finally become, as Mashadi puts it, "post-ideological." And it is this mature quality that has caught the attention of the Asian art market. Philippine artists today have scattered in their own interesting...
Although the Ash Center had already worked on Indonesian microfinance issues, there had been no sustained, in-depth research on the country. During the preparation of the new report, it became clear that creating an expanded program including Indonesian academics, politicians, and officials would be the most effective way to improve Indonesian political scholarship, Chang said...
...earlier version of the Jan. 7 news article "Kennedy School Receives $20.5 Million Gift to Support Asian Studies" incorrectly referred to the recently renamed Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Leadership as the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Leadership...