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...long quest for justice—and throw it into that little space in my brain reserved for those fantasies that reality and logic discourage. But then the latest chaos in Gaza came up on the news, only to remind me of the reason why I chose this path of speaking up for Palestinians. The people entangled and entrapped in the complex fabric of the Israeli occupying forces, the corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) and the militants who have virtually taken over—these people are my reason and my cause...
...gleam. Or as much as is possible before the deadline pounces. "Page one ? page four ? page three can go," Dore shouts, as the completed stories are slotted one after another into waiting layouts. At 9.17 p.m., two minutes late, the first edition is off, pages hurtling along their electronic path to the printing plants. The newsroom exhales and slows. But only for a few minutes. Second deadline approaches...
Traveling at perhaps 20km a second, the giant mass of iron and nickel crosses western Australia in under a minute and dives into the atmosphere, its path traced by the hiss and crackle of electrophonic noise, echoed by thunderous sonic booms as the air slows it through the sound barrier. Around it an envelope of ionized gas produces an incandescent fireball, brilliant as the sun, hot enough to vaporize the metal until what's left - as massive as a battleship and some 50m across - drives itself at more than 20,000 km an hour into the desert floor...
...chat to manager Meg Norling and catch up with other artists. As grinning barefoot toddlers tug at the visitor's clothes for attention, Long spreads a glowing acrylic painting on the floor. "This is where the star man came down," she says, her hand passing gently over a path of pink and yellow dots falling from a half-moon into the crater, which is viewed, as landscapes are in many Aboriginal paintings, as if from above. "He went in here," she says, jabbing at a blue dot slightly off-center. And though the ancient people who first told this story...
...bottom of the slope, a path worn by unseen animals leads to a perfectly circular stand of trees sucking water out of the salty white gypsum. There are wattles, paperbark and bloodwood eucalypts; among them pink Major Mitchell cockatoos shatter the oppressive silence with their raucous screams as they feed. Fairy wrens dart between flowering shrubs, and from the knee-high sedges and grasses comes the whisper of tiny life...