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...other issue is that of reconciliation with the Aborigines. Australia was unusual in that when European occupied the continent in the wake of the founding of the penal colony of New South Wales in 1788, it was regarded, in legal terms, as being "terra nullius," that is to say, uninhabited. Thus the Aborigines were not deemed to have any claims to native land title, nor was there felt to be any need, as in North America and New Zealand, to negotiate treaties with the native inhabitants. Legally, Aborigines were invisible; dispossession could proceed without even the formalities of legal process...
NASA's geezer-in-space program starring Senator John Glenn holds many benefits for American society [SPACE, Jan. 26]. The ultimate political junket, this program could entice Senators such as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms to leave terra firma, giving us respite from their earthly resistance to progress. C. "JACK" BEECHER West Swanzey...
...recommended dosages affects neither a food's taste nor its nutritional value in any detectable way--irradiated poultry, vegetables and fruits are almost as rare as Iranian caviar in U.S. markets. Though NASA has long irradiated food for space flights, the only widely sold "nuked" consumer products on U.S. terra firma are baby-bottle nipples, cosmetics, bandages, tampons, contact-lens cleaning fluids, juice and milk cartons and wine corks...
...summer of 1995, she saw a town out of time: lovely Victorian, Italianate and clapboard houses with wraparound porches and flags fluttering in the breeze; a shopping district of three-story brick buildings anchored by a domed courthouse, a gabled hotel and the Murphy Theater, a brick-and-terra-cotta confection with a delightful Art Deco marquee. Dooley grabbed her husband's arm and cried, "This is it!" Wilmington seemed to be that "protected environment," she says, "where we could raise our kids in peace...
...chamber orchestra plays from the balcony behind the audience, directing attention to the sparsely furnished stage. The set consists of a wooden platform with a few copper colored and terra cotta vessels, a pair of bronze-like columns and a garden statue cherub...