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...this is reality, give me my other books! Call me a sucker for escapist fiction, if you will. I take refuge in reading; I’m Matilda; I’m the baby who loves a bunch of authors. I eat a leisurely meal while leafing through Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, and my blockmates sigh in envy, perpetually mourning the death of pleasure reading in college and wistfully nostalgic about the good old days when reading for fun wasn’t something fueled by the Improbability Drive of The Hitchhiker?...
...DIED. DOLLY, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, of a lung infection; in Edinburgh. The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996 was a scientific breakthrough, but it raised concerns about the ethics of cloning?and about the health of the clones. Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, has also died, though it seemed to be in good health...
...rolled out our swags beneath the shade of a coolibah tree and watched and waited, ravenous, while the billy boiled. This was a truly Waltzing Matilda moment except for one seemingly un-Australian note?the chime of a camel bell and the sight of its wearer extending a long, furry neck to prune the top of an acacia bush not far from our bedrolls...
...fact, camels have been a part of Australian life since 1840?more than 50 years before Waltzing Matilda was even composed. Strings of the haughty beasts speeded up European exploration of the continent's interior, and helped open it up for ranchers. Shipped over en masse from what is now Pakistan, these dromedaries delivered freight and carried mail, and when superseded by motor vehicles, were turned loose and left to fend for themselves. Ideally suited to the rough desert conditions of Australia's interior, the hardy beasts soon bred themselves into a vast, wild population of at least...
What do you get when you cross a rainbow-clad clown, midgets, a Barney-like purple rhinoceros, murder and plenty of mayhem? The result is Death to Smoochy, a pitch-black comedy directed by Danny DeVito (The War of the Roses, Matilda). This caricature juxtaposes its yang—children’s television, complete with its Barneys and Teletubbies—with its evil counterpart yin—the industry’s dark underside, with its deception, fraud and, yes, homicide...