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...cooler, wetter (and more southern) Australia. In so doing, the site has filled in what were once gaping holes in our understanding of the origins of modern Australian fauna. "Only in one or two places on the surface of our planet, in the course of the last three thousand million years, have conditions been just right to preserve anything like a representative sample of the species living at any particular time," naturalist Sir David Attenborough wrote in 1991. "Those places are the rare treasure houses of palaeontology. Riversleigh is one of them...
...continues to update it. By cross-referencing factors such as which teams are playing, their positions on the ladder, whether they're last-start winners and the weather forecast for match day, "We can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty (give or take a couple of thousand people) what the crowd will be for upcoming matches," Walshe says. But he offers more than just a number. He makes projections about patrons' likely arrival times and whether they'll have pre-purchased tickets. Take Richmond, for example, one of the M.C.G.'s four tenant clubs (the others are Hawthorn, Collingwood...
...until the sculptures came, the biggest thing on the horizon in the past hundred years was Cyclone Bobby, in 1995. The deluge it brought transformed Lake Ballard into a magical breeding ground for 10,000 banded stilts. "It was like a thousand cotton-wool balls out there," Finlayson recalls. Then the birds left...
...race. The only thing missing along several portions of the route will be spectators, because there's no place to stand on the roadside. Last month, organizers said there would be room for just 1,000 spectators at the start of the Athens Games' signature event and tens of thousands at the finish line. And if you want to watch along the course itself, you'll have to find your own space. This isn't just a matter of construction delays. One facility, for example, was completed well ahead of schedule: the International Broadcasting Center where NBC, the American television...
...These grievances have occasionally boiled over into antigovernment protests. Last Easter weekend, several thousand Montagnards gathered in Dak Lak, Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces and clashed with waiting security forces. It was the largest show of protest in Vietnam since 2001, when similar demonstrations occurred in the same region. On this, both sides agree. On every other point, bitter disputes rage. The Communist Party of Vietnam insists that only two people died during the April clashes; Human Rights Watch, the New York City-based NGO, has recorded 10 deaths, while Amnesty International counts eight and says it "fears...