Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...squid, spooked by shadows, dissolved into clouds of ink. But now many of these bustling underwater habitats are taking a beating--and the tropical storms that tore through the region in recent weeks are the least of their problems. "Reefs are tough," observes Clive Wilkinson, a biologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. "You can hammer them with cyclones, and they'll bounce right back. What they can't bounce back from is chronic, constant stress." The kind of stress, in other words, that is being applied by humans...
...Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating married an Alitalia stewardess named Annita, above, after an airborne courtship...
...catty, hysterical world of competitive ballroom dancing. Perversely festooned women and frighteningly suntanned men duke it out in this battle of the shallowest, as our hero, the homely Fran, tries to win the heart of a pretty-boy rebel who wants to bring his daring pasa doble to the Australian Grand Prix...
Duncan Steel, an Australian astronomer, has calculated that if the asteroid had struck Earth, it would have hit at some 58,000 m.p.h. The resulting explosion, scientists estimate, would have been in the 3,000-to-12,000-megaton range. That, says astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer asteroid and comet hunter, "is like taking all of the U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons, putting them in one pile and blowing them...
...figure is one thing, but something seems to be wrong with CLAUDIA SCHIFFER's figures--either that, or nasty Australians are lying about her. When the supermodel was visiting the country last month to see fiance David Copperfield perform, local current-affairs show Witness sought an interview. Her Australian agent asked holiday rates: $30,000 for one hour. That's Witness's story. Ken Smith, proprietor of Schiffer's Australian agency, dismisses it as a "pie-in-the-sky rumor." So no interview--but Melbourne businessman Jean Mazloun says he struck a $280,000 deal with Schiffer's New York...