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...machinery and huts in absolute flatness--red desert all around. As soon as you get out of the plane (which has to refuel), you are assailed by millions of flies. The fly biomass of central Australia must be 10 times the biomass of humans or kangaroos. You at once start doing the irritable wave of the hand known as the outback salute. The flies crawl into your nostrils, eyes and ears, and when you get back in the plane, they fly in clouds into the cabin, so that the pilot takes out a can of powerful insecticide--"Jeez, this...
Indeed, it can't be. The big mining companies--which the opal miners hate, along with the government and the cops and the tourists--have never devised a profitable means of detecting or extracting opals. It's handwork. You just stake a claim and start digging. Sounds simple, but the trouble is that none of the conventional geological spotting techniques apply. Opals don't react chemically with the stone matrix around them, and they don't leave the "traces" that gold or diamonds do. So it is a matter of digging and digging and digging. One spot is as good...
...suit, but Combs is not out of the woods yet: he'll return to court in August to answer criminal charges. The relatively low settlement price is a sweet deal for Combs but carries enough concessions for Stoute to save face. And not least, it allows both sides to start putting the nasty publicity debacle behind them...
...Joan, Miss Julie and Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, the precursor to Cabaret. The hard part, of course, will be finding the time. Bash is running for just over a month, and the day after it finishes she'll be back in Los Angeles to start shooting the new season of Ally McBeal. "There's an intensity in the live experience that is very hard to replicate in any other medium," she says. "It's exciting for the audience and for the actors. Whether you land or not--whether you communicate or not--you know it immediately...
...DISCOUNT More than 2 million students with federal loans can now get reduced interest rates by rolling their IOUs together and repaying them electronically. Students with a $10,000 debt and a 10-year repayment plan will save more than $500 on average by consolidating their loans before they start to come due and allowing Washington to collect payments automatically...