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snuff, n.3 /snf/ [prob. ad. Du. and Flem. snuf or snuif (WFris. snuf) in the same sense, app. an abbreviation of snuiftabak (cf. LG. snuvtobak, G. schnupftabak, for which Swiss dial. has schnupf, schnopf): cf. PREC. and SNUFF v.2] 1. a. A preparation of powdered tobacco for inhaling through the nostrils (in the Southern United States, usually taken orally).
7 (USA Today)
The highest point on Earth is a little higher now. Scientists say they have measured the precise height of Mount Everest to be 7 feet above the current official elevation.
Headline News
SA: Teen false ID trade booms (The Sunday Mail (SA)
Under age teens are paying as little as $15 for fake identification in a booming blackmarket trade in Adelaide.NSW: Senior students up, but kindy kids down (The Sunday Telegraph)
School retention rates have soared by more than 50 per cent in the past 15 years, a new report says.WA: Maths tuition adds up for pupil (Sunday Times)
Maths lessons used to put Andrew Stevenson's stomach in knots as the cerebral-palsy sufferer struggled to keep up with his mainstream primary school pals.SA: TAFE fees restructure to negate price rise: Buckby (ABC)
South Australian TAFE fees are on the rise but the State Government says most students will not be paying more because of restructure of the fees.QLD: Minister confident children will benefit from more schooling (ABC)
Queensland's Education Minister believes children will benefit from a plan to introduce an extra year at school.VIC: University goes into partnership with schools (UniNews)
The University of Melbourne has formed a partnership with 10 Victorian secondary schools to provide assistance to their international students in a number of key areas.UK: Lifelong training is not an option (BBC)
Lifelong learning for many people is more like lifelong coercion, says the UK's first professor in the subject.FR: Pigheaded and bottom of the class: France's education supremo (The Guardian)
If you are a government minister in a spot of trouble and need a spin doctor, then no one will do it better than your mother.
IT News
Osborne rejects criticism of Internet censorship laws (ABC)
ACT Attorney-General Gary Humphries' criticism of federal Internet censorship laws has been rejected by Independent MLA Paul Osborne.Flights cancelled because of Y2K (New York Times)
Many airlines are canceling or scaling back flights on New Year's Eve due to a shortage of reservations and the possibility of Y2K glitches.Britannica.com: Open for business again (USA Today)
Britannica.com's on-again, off-again new Web site is now accessible to the horde of Internet users who brought it crashing down shortly after its debut last month.
Sydney 2000
IOC get best Games seats (The Sunday Telegraph)
Free loading International Olympic Committee members may be given seats that take up the space of 10 normal seats during Sydney's Games.Drugs deluge alarms our Games chief (Sunday Telegraph)
Sports drug cheats are smuggling record numbers of banned performance-enhancing drugs into Australia, just a year out from the Sydney Olympics.The Games ticket nightmare goes on (Sunday Age)
In the past week the chief executive of the Sydney Olympic organising committee, Mr Sandy Hollway, has signed off on at least seven different form letters that will go out to the public
News Specials
Russian jets pound Chechnya in heavy bombing (Associated Press)
Wave after wave of Russian jets and helicopter gunships pounded cities and villages across Chechnya yesterday while ground troops were reasserting their hold on the rebel republic's second-largest city.Crimebusters in Congress amaze Brazilians by exposing state drug role (The Guardian)
A new team of parliamentary crusaders is being credited with making unprecedented strides against organised crime in Brazil, including the unravelling of drugs mafias that include elected politicians, businessmen, police and bankers in half the country's states.Made in Australia, `a fraud, con, hoax' (Sunday Age)
A koala toy, a boomerang, an Aussie cricket hat, all perfect, if cliched, souvenirs of a holiday in Australia. There's only one hitch: they were all made overseas.