Word: australian
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...someone from the South Asian underworld ordered him dead because he was about to blow the lid on match fixing, the game's nagging cancer. Pakistan has certainly been linked to match-fixing scandals in the past. In 1994, then Pakistan captain Salim Malik was publicly accused by three Australian players of offering them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation and was initially cleared of any wrongdoing. But in 2000, police in the Indian capital New Delhi intercepted a telephone conversation between an illegal bookmaker and South African captain Hansie Cronje in which the two discussed...
...British designer Rachel Bending uses only water-based dyes for Bird, her range of organic cotton and linen fabrics, clothes and housewares. The brand also encourages employees to switch to solar power at home (where many of them work), and participates in schemes to offset its carbon emissions, supporting Australian solar-power and water-saving projects. Bending sees her well-made lines-typically featuring funky, retro-style patterns-as an antidote to the big, cheap fashion chains. "If something feels good, is made well and is good for the planet," she asks, "why would you throw it away?" See more...
...basis of checklists and observation - solid methodology as far as it goes, but not the same as, say, a blood test for anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report detecting what appear to be abnormalities in the workings of the brain of people with bipolar disorder - a finding, they say, that could eventually allow doctors...
...experimental wing, Wharf 2LOUD, Cowell has become Barnum to a new breed of theater writing with its "Vow of Clarity," for which he leads by example. Premiering on April 24, his new play Self Esteem is a cracker: a suburban satire which splits the seams of political correctness, returning Australian theater to its Jacobean roots. Then little over a week later, local cinemagoers will get their first glimpse of Cowell the leading man in writer-director Matthew Saville's haunting police drama, Noise, in which he plays a police constable battling the hearing disorder tinnitus while unwittingly caught...
...three major awards later (2001's Patrick White Award for Bed, 2003's Griffin Award for Rabbit, and 2005's Philip Parsons Award for the forthcoming Ruben Guthrie), Cowell should rattle the main-stage rafters with Self Esteem. A carnivalesque comedy set in the near future when Australian families are subject to in-house lifestyle consultants called CHADs, Cowell was inspired by the upsurge of Pentecostal churches and self-help industries around him, to ask, "Why do so many of us need this betterment god? What is it that we lack in ourselves...