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...Today the landscape they knew looks empty but for lonely turrets of sediment eaten away by the weather and dunes shimmering under a scalding sky. Parched flocks of galahs drift on the hot wind. Yet the Willandra Lakes region, which in 1981 became a 240,000-hectare World Heritage Area, has in the past 30 years yielded astounding archaeological treasures. In 1968 the dunes surrendered Mungo Lady, the skeletal remains of a young woman whose burial site remains the oldest evidence of cremation ever found. The ocher-covered bones of the world's oldest known ritual burial, Mungo Man, were...
...being used. A group of Aboriginal women sit filling dozens of knee-high stockings with hot sand. Barefoot, they then move carefully over the dazzlingly white claypan, its surface cracked like china and scattered with cinnamon-colored sand, placing a stocking on each print to shield it from the weather. "How our people survived," says Mary Pappin Sr., "is all written here in these sands." Around her the silent dunes crouch in the sun - guardians, perhaps, of still more extraordinary secrets...
...Eighteen girls from two villages on the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal island were either forced at gunpoint or given money or food to have sex with militants which resulted in them becoming pregnant. One of the girls, who was 11 when she was raped, told researchers her attacker still lives in her village: "I am now 14 years old and he still has sex with me nearly every week...
...court-order cleanup effort, Convery said. The goal is to raise the water quality so that swimming is possible throughout the year, said Michael D. Wagner, assistant enforcement consul for the Environmental Protection Agency of New England, yesterday. “The river is in good shape in dry weather,” Laskey said. “The problem is after or during rainstorms.” Wagner added that the MWRA plans to reduce the CSO from 17.1 billion gallons a year in 1988 to 7.8 million gallons a year by 2013. Laskey said that this move marks...
...marched with the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) in the great parade up Fifth Avenue. We stood in the biting cold for hours—and then marched for hours more—as an awful mix of rain and snow blew south into our faces. Despite the terrible weather, hundreds and hundreds of AOH members turned out to walk behind their banner, smiling despite the cold and the stinging wind. As I joined the thousands who marched and saw the countless spectators who cheered us on, I realized we all knew what the fuss was about. On this...