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...Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...seen—and the alcohol I’ve drunk—it’s been great,” said Brenda Chu, a Yale freshman. —Aditi Banga contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
...lake in Western Victoria, Bob McClelland is harvesting wheat - and grateful to be doing it. Thanks to a little rain and a pipeline from the Murray River, McClelland's farm is surviving the six-year drought that's parched much of southeast Australia. He isn't sure if it's just one of the region's periodic dry spells or if, as some scientists say, it's been worsened by global warming. But "I'm a bit of a believer in climate change," he says. "All those Arctic glaciers melting - there must be something happening...
...Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu...
...giving up their social placement above the ex-convicts and their children (the "currency"). But the "lower orders"--that is, most 19th century Australians--fiercely resented the pretensions of the nobs and were well aware that in a pioneer environment Lady Luck was a more powerful queen than Victoria Regina. This was rammed home after the discovery of gold in Ballarat in 1851, just after the California gold rush. "All the aristocratic feelings and associations of [England]," wrote John Sherer, an observer of the gold rush in 1853, "are at once annihilated...It is not what you were, but what...