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...anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report detecting what appear to be abnormalities in the workings of the brain of people with bipolar disorder - a finding, they say, that could eventually allow doctors to subdue the condition before it can wreck patients' lives...
...unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic has yet to see many drastic effects of climate change. Visitors can still see cliffs of ice and the brilliant light blue of icebergs. They can see humpback whales and leopard seals cruise alongside their Zodiacs, or watch penguins chasing each other along the shore and pecking at visitors' boots...
...right-wing opinions he expressed as a legislator. More interesting is why he's choosing to do so now. One theory is that becau se his approval ratings have been falling for months ahead of vital elections to be held in the spring, he may feel the need to shore up his conservative support base. But in pandering to the right, he could throw away something far more important - Japan's improving relations with China and South Korea, its vital neighbors and trade partners. With the 70th anniversary of the Nanking massacre (when invading Japanese troops targeted the Chinese city...
...however, does it better than most. With just eight cabins and wonderful cuisine (you won't get enough of the spicy prawn curry), this is a marvelous way to catch glimpses of Indian life-from women washing clothes on the banks to fishermen selling their catch from boats. Some shore-based sight-seeing is included, while cultural programs and traditional dances enliven the evenings. The standard four-day cruise costs $2,000. Visit www.oberoivrinda.com...
...indigenous word meaning Middle Australia: average, mainstream, "aspirational." Howard knows how his constituents think and act because he is one of them. First elected to federal Parliament in 1974, he has traveled well beyond his origins and his own family's home on the city's comfortable North Shore. But the P.M. has never lost his bearings on the area he represents, even as it has been transformed by wealth and Asian immigration. In fact, Bennelong is Howard's touchstone for the get-ahead and assimilating migrants he believes are the key to national cohesion. As many as one-quarter...