Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESPIII FRANK'S loneliness. Harland's Half Acre is not a book filled with gloomy despair. Instead it is filled with endless details of Australian life--every thing and everyone Frank sees...
...Soviet Foreign Ministry, however, has sent a note to foreign embassies complaining that the run "interfered with the normal life of the city." The Soviets asked the joggers to confine their activity to parks and to official sporting facilities. Clint Halloran, 43, a trim Australian attaché who serves as Hash Master, the elected head of the in formal club, chose not to regard the Soviet demand as a worsening of East-West relations. In compliance with the Soviets' request, the runs have been rescheduled for nonrush hours and moved to various parks and suburbs, like the area around...
Halfway around the globe from Shakespeare's grave, the normally conservative government of the Australian of Victoria has heeded the curse of the Bard, and by doing so has shocked the scientific establishment. Because of tightened state laws, the University of Melbourne must relinquish its important collection of several hundred human bones between 9,000 and 13,000 years old. They will go to the Victoria Museum, where a panel will decide whether the bones should be reinterred. The move was yet another victory for Australia's native people, the aborigines, who, in an effort to reclaim their...
...than one egg at a time. By using hormonal stimulants, Howard Jones "harvests" an average of 5.8 eggs per patient; it is possible to obtain as many as 17. "I felt like a pumpkin ready to burst," recalls Loretto Leyland, 33, of Melbourne, who produced eleven eggs at an Australian clinic, one of which became her daughter...
...Rios' eggs in 1981, then fertilized them with sperm from an anonymous donor. Some were implanted in Mrs. Rios, and the remaining two were frozen. "You must keep them for me," she said. The implant failed, and the couple later died in a plane crash in Chile. Australian laws grant no "rights" to the two frozen embryos, but though local officials are believed to have the authority to destroy them, they have refrained from doing so. A state committee of inquiry is supposed to issue a report on the whole subject of reproductive technology this week...