CubeSat launch.
An American who recently completed a personal mission of carrying a 40-pound cross around the world and made the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's longest trek, will next send a four inch version of the cross into space. The cross is fashioned from the...

Beyond the great barrier reef.
When a group of Australians declared their intention to set up "the world's first independent sovereign Gay & Lesbian nation," it sounded about as serious as the plan of some American evangelicals to move en masse to South Carolina and then secede from the U.S. But off they sailed...

campaign TRAILS.
WORLD HERITAGE CAMPAIGN Oil sharks circle the Reef Environmental groups across Australia have called on the Federal Government to give an immediate and ironclad commitment that it will prohibit oil exploration or oil production immediately offshore the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area. The call...

Euthanasia in the Commonwealth of Australia.
The great political and social turmoil surrounding the passing of the RTI Act and its effective repeal has been widely reported, both in Australia and overseas. A chronology of significant events is set out for the reader's benefit in the Appendix. Although this chronology is by no means exhaustive,...

Te Pa Mataiapo (Imogen Ingram) Secretary of the Koutu Nui.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imogen Ingram is of Polynesian and English parentage, and was raised in a bilingual home in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. She underwent tertiary education in New Zealand, graduating first with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Political Studies and later with a Bachelor of...

A new estuarine species, Nereis garwoodi (Polychaeta: Nereididae), from Bahia Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast.
Abstract: Nereis garwoodi n. sp. in described on the basis of eight syntype specimens (six atokous and two heteronereis) collected in Bahía Chetumal, Mexican Caribbean coast, and the variability in the paragnath numbers in the pharynx is established using 180 specimens; paragnath numbers are I:10(SD=1.9); 11:30 (SD=2.6); III:41 (SD=5.2);...

Sentimental hogwash? On Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.
Concern about the ethical condition of mankind has exercised great minds from the beginning of time. In Biblical chronology, the Fall follows only Creation. No longer a denizen of paradise, man began his struggle against himself and the elements, the former proving a consistently more formidable foe. Plato's description...

And might the bell toll--for thee? The fourth article in a series by Nonie Sharp on place, environment and their defence.
I It's 26 December 2004; the earth has begun to tremble. Nature, it turns out, is re-writing a story. Thick blue seismic lines appear on faraway monitoring stations. Above the moving plates the ocean changes from green to dark black. Masses of foam rise as seismic waves,...

Two-ocean war; a short history of the United States Navy in the Second World War. (reprint, 1963).
9781591145240 Two-ocean war; a short history of the United States Navy in the Second World War. (reprint, 1963) Morison, Samuel Eliot. Naval Institute Press 2007 611 pages $24.95 Paperback D773 :st...

Assessing the role of climate change and human predation on marine resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: an agent based model.
Abstract In the tropical Pacific, climate change has been implicated as a causal variable in the development of a variety of social processes, including resource scarcity, cultural diversification, changes in spatial organization, and conflict. Hypotheses concerning the effects of climatic variability on cultural change can be better...