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Riversleigh's vast trove of fossils lets scientists see deep into the past - and unearth lessons for the future A certain type of person might regard Phil Creaser's life as a tiny bit humdrum. Fair-skinned and bespectacled, he works from a desk as a project coordinator in the Commonwealth public service, returning in the evenings to an empty house. In his free time, he keeps an eye on his elderly parents, loves a good trivia night, and has drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge...
...plans, of the movements and moments that can change governments, societies and the way people think. It's what journalists can unearth that drives the Australian newspaper's editor; "lifting those flat rocks and seeing what creepy crawlies are under there," as he puts it. Stutchbury sits at a desk buried in paper, blinds drawn, looking out over his newsroom, a large, open-spaced office filled with clocks, cluttered desks, chattering televisions and people hunched intently over computers, fingers punching at keyboards. It's evening outside, and in inner-city Surry Hills young office workers gather in bars, empty energy...
...Back at his desk Whittaker juggles phones and e-mails between checking online news bulletins and fielding text messages from a journalist chasing a terrorism lead in rural Indonesia. He's in the middle of his own whirlwind, the newsroom largely empty of journalists, who are off like honey bees, foraging and collecting. By 3 p.m. he's running again to make the next conference, which hears from each bureau chief via speakerphone, and decides that while the free trade story is firming, it needs more independent confirmation. But the paper is taking shape, and at the next conference...
...recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity is out. She feels her way along the lightless hall until they reach the office, a dim, dingy room with a desk, a sink, a scale and an ancient examination table covered by a dusty black cloth. Everything in the once fine clinic was looted or wrecked a year...
...Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover, who at the time had never even made an arrest. But celebrity gangsters create a need for a national police force, and the FBI was the government's answer...