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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...corner of the Australian Outback, it finally happened. At the bottom of a tunnel near Barramundi Gap, warm water was seeping from the rocks. That was a clue to a find that now produces about 100,000 carats of dull-brown rough every day and has about 1 trillion carats left to give. The Argyle Diamond Mine is the richest in the world in terms of the sheer number of stones, but they are small and dingy, mostly the color of breakfast tea. They seemed destined to end up as knife blades, dental tools and drilling bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Core of a Diamond | 6/20/2006 | See Source »

Holman was a prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Have Cane, Will Travel | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...than Jagger’s plaintive “Still I’m gonna miss you”? Seems as appropriate a response as any. Did the hijackers perhaps wolf down some hastily-microwaved BBQ ribs at everyone’s third-favorite chain restaurant—after Outback and Fuddrucker’s—before boarding those fateful flights...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Can't Always Sing What You Want | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...hupstas"). Jemaine Clement, on the other hand, prefers to describe their comedy as "awkward." The Conchords are about to take flight. An album is due this year, and the two are developing a sitcom for HBO. Meanwhile, you can catch Clement's seminal work on commercials for restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse. "Jemaine is more the blokey guy," says McKenzie. "I'd probably advertise fruit and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy Forging the Future: Beyond the Punch Line | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...people are reported missing every year. 90% of them are found, some are never seen again” begins “Wolf Creek.” Can three teenagers simply be wiped off of the face of the Earth during a mundane road trip through the Outback? Writer/director Greg McLean brings to the screen the “based on a true story” account of Sidney resident Ben (Nathan Phillips), and British tourists Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi). Although the camera work is certainly appealing and the plot gripping, the movie ultimately seems like...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wolf Creek | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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