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...operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast as an act of payback. Wright is Proustian in her love of detail but postmodern in her playfulness: " 'Where hid reality?' Elias asked in the Pricklebush, yet who could say what existed in one ordinary coastal town plonked at the top of the nation...
...these trials and they don’t show any sign of stopping. For instance, just two weeks before school started one of our closest friends was forced to withdraw after accidentally implicating himself in the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. (Don’t worry John Mark, we hid your external hard drives just like you told us to; third drawer, right side, Dean Gross’ desk. And we believe you.) But we never get too down, because there are plenty of great resources around campus to help students stay stable. Drinking is your most obvious option...
...criminal. (You do occasional, unexplained stints in jail and can get out by paying somebody off.) On the other hand, it makes real estate moguldom seem homey and attainable. Maybe it's not surprising the game became a hit. It suggested--1930s-populist style--that the fat cats hid great crimes behind their great fortunes. (It was based on The Landlord's Game, a didactic board game patented in 1904 by a reformer advocating landlord taxes to counter the exploitation of tenants.) Yet it promised that you too could get rich, by saving your salary, seizing lucky opportunities...
...generations, the inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores, located 563 km east of Bali, told stories of a race of little people called the Ebu Gogo: hairy, human-like creatures that hid in the island's limestone caves. Like leprechauns, the Ebu Gogo (the name roughly means "grandmother who eats everything") were assumed by anthropologists to be mythical. That was until a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers excavating a cave on the island uncovered ancient bones that included the 18,000-year-old skeleton of a 1-m-tall female with a brain the size of a grapefruit...
...inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores used to tell stories of a separate race of little people called the ebu gogo, 3-ft.-tall, hairy human-like creatures that hid in the island's many limestone caves. Supposedly the ebu gogo - the name roughly means "grandmother who eats everything" - disappeared around the 16th century, when Dutch traders first came to this tropical island 350 miles east of Bali. It's a common myth with a convenient ending-as soon as witnesses who could have recorded the creature's existence come on the scene, the ebu gogo suddenly vanish...