Word: outback
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...plausible places for early human settlement of the Americas, Pedra Furada, located in a region of dramatic sandstone cliffs in the arid outback of northeastern Brazil, is probably the most exciting -- and most disputed. When archaeologist Niede Guidon of the School for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences in Paris first excavated the site in 1978, she found cave paintings, ash-filled hearths and what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each...
...rich and fashionable Australian woman loses her husband to another woman, and her two children in a mysterious house fire. She then flees into the Outback, where she attempts to erase her identity and, with it, her memories of humiliation and tragedy. As Thomas Keneally paints it, the landscape is almost biblical: an antipodean Sinai, where the flesh is challenged and the spirit purified...
...Woman of the Inner Sea, the intrigues and excesses of Sydney society provide delicious background and important plotting points. But the scenes are thin beside Kate's semi-legendary transformation into a tough bird of the outback. Keneally's long delay in revealing details about the death of Kate's children is a deliberate tease and annoyance...
...from the nearby Manson Crater, 35 km (22 miles) across and about 65 million years old and perhaps made by a chunk of the comet that killed the dinosaurs. Then, after a weekend back in Flagstaff, the Shoemakers departed for their annual one-month field trip in the Australian Outback, where the ancient and stable land surface, peppered with craters of all ages, is a happy hunting ground for geologists...
...event does have its inspiring moments. Steve Dunleavy, the Outback Geraldo Rivera, who cut his journalistic teeth at Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist New York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...