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...final days of 2008, residents of Australia's southeast might have been forgiven for thinking summer had finished early. On the island state of Tasmania in the far south, freezing gales blew, blanketing mountains with snow. In the state of Victoria, in the southeastern corner of the mainland, the number of sunny hours a day dropped from the normal 8.3 to a mere seven. "Where has our summer gone," moaned a newspaper report, while some readers commented that it made you wonder if global warming was real...
...elderly. More than half a million homes and businesses lost power for days, railway lines buckled and bushfires burned tens of thousands of acres and destroyed at least 29 homes. "We're in uncharted waters, unprecedented condition. It's the hottest week since records began," the Premier (Governor) of Victoria John Brumby told reporters as he toured bushfire ravaged areas over the weekend. (See "Australia's Hidden Islands...
...day’s first individual event, the 1000-yard freestyle, in 10:05.93. Freshman Kristi Korsberg and junior Katie Faulkner followed to give Harvard another sweep. Korsberg’s strong performance was one of several from the Crimson’s rookie class. Freshmen Meghan Leddy and Victoria Pratt recorded back-to-back dominating victories in the first half of the meet. Leddy won the 100-yard backstroke in 58.53, and Pratt followed up by taking first in the 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:06.99 was nearly three seconds ahead of Brown?...
...really there. “Aurélia’s Oratorio” is full of such bizarre moments, which combine to create a poetic and wonderful production. Aurélia Thierrée’s practically one-woman show, written and directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and running at the American Repertory Theatre through Jan. 3, is a surreal evening of intricate choreography, acrobatics, and optical illusion. At the start of “Oratorio,” the stage is dominated by its red velvet curtain and a large chest of drawers, offering little...
...Thus there will be no tree-hugging, bird-spotting visits to the Mai Po Marshes, no afternoons in the loft studios of Fo Tan artists and an embargo on sipping ristrettos in Elgin Street bars. Instead, Noble House Hong Kong is all about the old-school icons: go to Victoria Peak, have tea at the Peninsula hotel, get invited to someone's box at the Happy Valley races. Loaf around the lobby of Jardine House, which appears in the series as Struan & Co.'s headquarters. Partake of shark-fin banquets and black-tie suppers of foie gras and lobster. Travel...