Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eerie stillness haunts the desolate plains of eastern Australia. Plows rest immobile in their sheds; paddocks remain withered and empty. For day after enervating day, nothing relieves the silence but the whine of hot, fierce winds whirling precious topsoil into dust clouds and the occasional squawks of crows wheeling above the carcasses of livestock...
...entire eastern half of Australia is thirsting through a wasting drought that is in many regions the worst in the history of the world's most arid continent. Already, the "Great Dry" has devastated 90% of New South Wales, which is now in its 45th month of drought, and 95% of the state of South Australia, Dubbo, a typical rural town, averages 25.5 in. of annual rainfall. Last year it had 2.3 in. In many areas seeds cannot germinate; in others the regal Murrumbidgee River is nothing but a stagnant puddle. Dust storms have enveloped Melbourne and, five weeks...
...Hext" was dismissed from Shippensburg March 10, and authorities have since discovered documents indicating that the man had assumed 13, false identities in Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States...
Administrators at Shippensburg first grew suspicious about Doe's identity after finding a magazine article written by a Prof John B. Hext of MacQuarie University in Australia...
...growing number of proponents of "self-deliverance," the Koestlers' suicides seemed to epitomize the "gentle, easy" death celebrated by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and 18 similar groups that have sprung up in Europe, Asia, Australia and the U.S. Still, the sensational case raised some disturbing ethical questions about suicide pacts in particular and, more generally, about the fast-growing movement that aims to facilitate the suicide of the terminally...