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...Monash University media specialist Nick Economou says Murdoch and Packer appear to be members of a new breed of non-interventionist proprietors. "Both of them have struck me by their total lack of interest in wielding influence," he says. "They're not motivated by that stuff. They want money." Foxtel is the jewel in the CMH satchel. After losing $104 million in 2005, it turned a $62 million profit last year - and analysts forecast rapid growth as it increases its 29% penetration of Australian homes...
...emissions and, under Kyoto, no obligation to limit them. "If we could get all 21 economies to agree to make some kind of a contribution to address the issue," Downer says, "it would be a very big step forward." Alan Oxley, chairman of the Australian APEC Study Center at Monash University, agrees. "The Chinese will not accept the sort of regulation Kyoto proposes," he says. "But they are showing increasing interest in the AP6 model. So there's a significant opportunity for APEC to influence the global regime." The outcome, he says, could be a multitrack system: "If the Europeans...
...hurdles remained before the technique might ever be used in people, but the sheer simplicity of Yamanaka's discovery-he found just four genes were required to reprogram the mouse skin cells-was cause for elation. "This is great science," says Alan Trounson, professor for stem-cell sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "It takes us a big step closer to reprogramming adult cells...
...least be certain you're observing a sleeping person. "But we don't have a device that looks into a person's head and sees dreams happening in real time," says Russell Conduit, a lecturer in the school of psychology, psychiatry and psychological medicine at Melbourne's Monash University. Instead, dream researchers rely on what he calls the "faulty methodology" of waking subjects and asking them what was going on in their heads immediately before they were woken. But because certain parts of the brain are switched off during sleep, it shouldn't be assumed that subjects' answers will...
...senior lecturer in art and design at Monash University, Gregory also happens to be the brother-in-law of Arkley's widow, Alison Burton, and Carnival in Suburbia: The Art of Howard Arkley (Cambridge University Press; 214 pages) benefits from intimate access to the artist's studio archive. Here, an entry gleaned from one of his student notebooks - "I offer the following as an example of my state of mind... hint: there could be something that at first seems false. but things are never what they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this...