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...Secret River, on which Michael Fitzgerald based his visit to the Hawkesbury, is only the latest work to refer to rivers. Your editor's letter was right in suggesting that the dryness of so much of the continent gives rivers a special significance. Every Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply...
...mortality rate. More than 57 children die of SIDS out of every 100,000 live births. The new research gives a biological basis for “all the risk-reduction strategies” that currently exist for SIDS, including having children sleep on their back, said David S. Paterson of Children’s Hospital Boston and a co-author of the study. “The brain stem works as an alarm, a kind of control and integration center, for determining physiological changes in the body... if the system is defective and you’re lying face...
Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, David Rattray all were introduced to me through the kind offices of Elsa Dorfman the photographer. She was also the founder of the Paterson Society which put “The Beats” on the public road. David was a friend of John Wieners and once entertained me with anecdotes about him. The most bizarre was a night in New York when both were stoned and ended up on a rooftop. David told me that while Wieners intoned “fire, fire” all night hitting every possible sound combination, David...
...constituents. Nor are their powers all they're cracked up to be. When AWOL is used, ingesting the equivalent of half a shot of liquor takes 20 minutes, according to Morse. "It's nearly impossible to get drunk with it," he says. A bar owner in West Paterson, N.J., even returned the gizmo because it didn't offer enough of a buzz. Mothers Against Drunk Driving president Wendy Hamilton considers vaporized alcohol a low priority compared with getting states like Florida to enact stricter seat-belt laws. "Legislatures," she explains wearily, "get distracted...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 48, former middleweight boxing contender who, along with Truck Driver John Artis, was convicted in 1967 of shooting three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern; by a U.S. district judge, on the ground that the verdict was based on prejudice and prosecutors' errors. The case received national attention in 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out the original convictions. Bob Dylan championed Carter's plight in song and, along with Boxer Muhammad Ali, helped raise a $600,000 defense fund. The two men were convicted again in a retrial after which Carter served...