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...optimists, not just opponents. Let’s build unity in the American family, not angry division. Let’s honor this nation’s diversity; let’s respect one another; and let’s never misuse for political purposes the most precious document in American history, the Constitution of the United States...
...that couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to be. Speakers who must have been dying for a chance to lace into the current administration’s moral bankruptcy and pragmatic failures were reportedly told to lay off the Bush-bashing for fear of alienating those precious swingers. And so this week inhabited an odd political twilight zone: an opposition party seeking to rescue the nation midway through what seems the worst eight years of misgovernance in memory, the Dems forced themselves to put on a happy face...
...jogging in garish training apparel. That's Creaser's regular life. But for about a fortnight in the middle of every year this acute, vital 52-year-old breaks out, leaving the Canberra winter to join a team of scientists on the annual dig at Riversleigh, Australia's most precious treasure trove of fossils...
...more than just a portal into the ancient past. It is also, he believes, a harbinger. In stunning detail, Riversleigh chronicles a collapse in Australia's mammal diversity in the past 25 million years. Archer warns that if humans don't stop abusing the earth and "incarcerating our precious biotas in reserves that are demonstrably too small to sustain them," we could jeopardize our survival as a species. Alarmist? Keep in mind, he suggests, that the average mammalian species hangs around for 5 million years; Homo sapiens has been around for some 300,000 years. "We haven't been tested...
...Water is precious in this country, and knowing where to find it allowed Sturt's nomadic ancestors to flourish for tens of thousands of years in an environment so hostile it might have been some divine practical joke. While her painting is not a map in any conventional sense, Geoff Vivian, community development officer for the shire of Halls Creek, speculates as to its provenance. "I think scientists will one day find," he says, that there's "sophisticated hydrographic knowledge" embedded in Aboriginal myth. Maggie Long, another Jaru painter, has popped into the arts center to chat to manager...