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...mellifluous tones that have captivated generations of science students, the Australian-born, Princeton-educated Archer, dean of science at the University of New South Wales, will speak for an hour, without a stumble or misplaced word, about the scope of discovery at World Heritage?listed Riversleigh and the strange beasts that used to live here. In 1983, Archer says, "in one rock, in five minutes, we found 35 new kinds of mammal. Not just species - like one kind of kangaroo versus another - but whole groups of things that are as unique as, say, whales are." Two years ago, Nissen...
...town's main street which bears his name, "he discovered gold here. They say he pushed a wheelbarrow from Perth." But on a day trip out to the mining town of Laverton, Marumba is prospecting for souls, not gold. Stretching his legs at Laverton's roadhouse after the 3.5-hour drive north, he spots some Aboriginal teenagers. "When you're in Kalgoorlie," he tells them, "come to church." But Marumba's most important work is being done out here. "Some pastors preach fire and brimstone," says Laverton's newly inducted pastor Rhys Winter, "but Pastor Peter is more a teacher...
...around this time that Paul Whittaker's 12-hour day normally finishes. But as the paper's national chief of staff, his mobile phone stays on, and tonight he rings in at about 11.30 p.m., checking with Dore that the start of the British Open on his television means that a picture of Greg Norman the paper's been chasing since late afternoon is on its way. It's a long time since 7 a.m., when Whittaker's daily immersion in news begins: 11 papers online at home over breakfast, perhaps a call from editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell...
...doesn't know it then but the feature piece will be held, pushed out by something more topical. Not knowing when or if their stories will run plagues every journalist; a front page at 6 p.m. can be on page five an hour later. Science writer Leigh Dayton has been lobbying for her exclusive piece on koala leukemia to run; when it's mentioned at conference, someone asks with slight disgust, "Does the koala look like it's got a disease?" The piece makes it in a day later; the picture doesn't. Seeing your stories cut or killed...
...story. "Sorry to wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within minutes the story's refiled, and the paper is done and gone. Journalist friends say they can't understand why she gave up writing, but "the buzz...