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		Headlines Health risk for long haul passengers (Sunday Telegraph) One in 10 passengers on cheap long-haul flights suffer "economy class syndrome", according to a world-first study of the potentially fatal condition. The British study establishes the first official link between flying and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) , in which lethal blood clots form in people who travel for long hours in cramped seating conditions. More Education News WA: Blitz on schoolie stalkers (Herald Sun Sunday) Police in WA's top holiday destinations will target adult "leeches" who prey on schoolgirls during school break-up celebrations. NSW: Pupils to face jury of peers (Sunday Telegraph) School children as young as seven will be given the power to judge their peers in a NSW Government plan to solve playground fights. QLD: Blunder gives law students answers (Sunday Mail) A University blunder has led to law students walking into an ethics exam with the answers. Now the 300 students who sat the University of Queensland exam face the prospect of another test. SA: New $20m boost for students (Sunday Mail) More than $20 million will be spent on implementing a new school curriculum containing "very little" change for students. VIC: Revealed: Santamaria's schools scam (Sunday Age) Startling evidence has emerged that the late B.A. Santamaria tried to siphon off 10 per cent of Victoria's state aid to Catholic schools to support his right-wing National Civic Council. QLD: Sex, drugs, rock and school (Sun Herald) Police and health workers fear dealers will target teenagers with a powerful new designer drug as the Gold Coast gears up for a wild schoolies week party USA: Kentucky tackles high illiteracy (BBC) A 10-year project is tackling low levels of literacy in 40% of adults in the state of Kentucky. CHINA: Chinese teacher cuts off pupil's finger (BBC) A teacher who cut off part of a pupil's finger is jailed for 18 months in eastern China amid growing concern over school violence. National News Alibrandi gives Chopper the cut (Sun Herald) Pia Miranda, who played a character almost 10 years her junior, was named Best Actress last night during a glittering Australian Film Industry awards ceremony. Miranda won the award for her performance in Looking For Alibrandi, which collected most of the major AFI awards last night, including Best Film. Silence greets Minister after two decades in politics (Sun Herald) Former Olympics Minister Michael Knight served his final day in State Parliament last week and slipped away with neither fuss nor fanfare. His exit from the political scene after 19 years as Labor MP for Campbelltown did not produce a single tribute from his own side of the House and a deafening silence from the Liberals, Nationals and Independents. Advertisers pushing the boundaries (Sunday Mail) Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin features in the latest "shock ad" that is fast becoming part of the culture of US television advertising. International News Gore's hopes rise (Sunday Telegraph) Texas Governor George W. Bush was denied victory in the presidential election yesterday by the Florida Supreme Court's last-minute decision to defer final declaration of the vote. More space junk headed our way (News.com.au) Troubled space station Mir will break up into chunks of space junk the size of "large buses" and parts are likely to hit Australia, when the Russians ditch it into the Pacific Ocean, experts predicted today. Filipino meeting a mistake says minister (ABC) Australia's Shadow Trade Minister, Peter Cook, says it was a mistake for the Northern Territory's Chief Minister to meet the Filipino President, after he'd been impeached. IT and Science News Net gain of competition (Sunday Mail) Cowboys may be riding the internet range but consumers can still find a good deal if they want to connect to the web. Fair Trading Minister Judy Spence said the market for Internet Service Providers was "increasingly competitive" and buyers should shop around. How IT history hinged on a digit (Sunday Age) If Finbar McGrath had not fallen off his bicycle in 1997 and broken his thumb, Neil Weste would not have found himself sitting in an office in Boston, Massachusetts, convincing a hard-nosed US electronics company that it should give him $US500,000 ($A960,000). Catch an eclipsing star (Wired) Astronomers are getting geeked for Monday morning when a 41-mile- diameter asteroid will eclipse and obscure a plainly visible star that lies in the constellation Gemini. Feature Article Life on Earth: no sequel? (Sunday Age) One of the world's most famous naturalists has delivered a definitive, disturbing verdict on global environmental degradation. "The future of the earth is in the balance," Attenborough warns in a three-part BBC series which began screening in Britain last week. Word of the Day iinertia 1. a. Physics. That property of matter by virtue of which it continues in its existing state, whether of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is altered by an external force. Originally used as L., and also called vis inertiæ (force of inertia). b. electric inertia, a term applied to the resistance offered by a circuit to sudden changes of current, due to self- or mutual induction, or both. magnetic inertia, that property of a magnetic substance which prevents its being instantaneously magnetized or demagnetiz
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