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Australians like to think they know the land they live on. The country's founding myths are built upon stories of creeks and billabongs and deserts. "I love a sunburnt country" go the lines of a beloved verse by poet Dorothea Mackellar, "A land of sweeping plains/ Of ragged mountain ranges/ Of droughts and flooding rains...
...from its dining hall Wednesday nights in an effort to reduce crowding and build community, the House announced last week. The Wednesday “community nights,” which begin today, come in response to dinner-time congestion that frequently plagues Adams. The dining hall—built to accommodate 220—consistently draws swarms of non-residents due to the House’s convenient location. “We’re in the eye of the storm,” said David A. Seley, the Adams dining hall manager. The move drew praise from...
...this history is on show in a historically significant location: the museum is in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the otherwise obscure district where, in 1938, Ferdinand Porsche built the first VW Beetle, and, a year later, the 64 - the forefather of Porsche sports cars ever since. But you may prefer to skip the history and simply admire the stunningly beautiful automobiles. Car lovers can spend all day taking in models such as the 356 No. 1 Roadster (released in 1948, it was the first sports car ever to bear the Porsche name), an armada of 917 racing cars, and numerous variations...
...Opened in Oct. 2008 at the cost of $130 million, the 104 arts complex is part of Paris's bid to revitalize the city's arts scene. Seeing an opportunity for what 104 Community Outreach Coordinator Matthias Tronqual calls "a project at once artistic, economic and social," the city built the complex in a former municipal funeral parlor at the center of the troubled Flandres neighborhood - a melting pot of 30 different ethnic groups, with a 20% unemployment rate and over 60% social housing. After hearing about 104 from a French photographer friend, Tricky - the man behind the 1990s music...
...possible that the current inferno in Australia might have been as intense and deadly even without the warming of the past several decades. Police are beginning to suspect that many of the fires may have been deliberately set, and the sheer increase in the number of homes built in fire-danger zones in southern Australia today puts more people in harm's way, raising the potential death toll. Still, heat waves and drought set the table for wildfires, and temperatures in the worst-hit areas have been over 110°F (43°C) while humidity has bottomed out near...