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Fed-up Paramedics Avoid Tough Shifts

AS VIOLENCE on Melbourne's streets spirals out of control, ambulances are sitting idle in garages because exhausted paramedics are refusing to work on Friday and Saturday nights.

Fed-up Paramedics Skip Tough Shifts

AS VIOLENCE on Melbourne's streets spirals out of control, ambulances are sitting idle in garages because exhausted paramedics are refusing to work on Friday and Saturday nights.

Caution On Party Planning

IT it every parent's nightmare. While away on a relaxing holiday, their teenage son throws a house party that spirals wildly out of hand. Police are called and neighbours are outraged.

Yin And Yang Emerge From Solar Swirl

MASSIVE pairs of stars that produce dust spirals resembling giant cosmic Yin and Yang symbols have been discovered at the centre of our galaxy.

Sorry, France No Ooh La La Until You Reach The Semi-finals

The fine spirals of smoke in the hotel foyer are a giveaway. So, too, the increasingly desperate orders for ``un cafe noir".

Degrees Of Difficulty

AS the cost of higher education spirals out of reach for many Australian school-leavers, others cling to one hope: the possibility of a university scholarship.

Minister Acts On Bellambi Dispute

MINISTER for Mineral Resources Kerry Hickey is to appoint a retired judge to mediate next week on the Bellambi West mine dispute before it spirals out of control.

Faces Of Easter 2002 In The Holy Land

* The girl who turned herself into a bomb * The soldier sent to crush a people's leader A CONFLICT SPIRALS OUT OF CONTROL: PAGE 4

Commandos At Far-flung Fronts

In a remote valley, deep in the Wollemi National Park, a helicopter spirals out of the sky. Firebird 2-4 nears the cliff-edge landing zone and a cloud of ash erupts as four remote area fire team firefighters emerge to help extinguish the huge Bulga fire on the edge of the Hunter Valley.

Attention Passengers, This Is Your Captain Freaking

Feel like the plane is suddenly falling from the sky, or worried about shakes or sudden mid-air turbulence? It may be your pilot is suffering from a serious visual illusion, where all sense of balance is lost and instinctive decisions are wrongly made sometimes sending the plane into graveyard spirals and suicide spins.

Gallery Sees Red

NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA conservator Michael VarcoeCocks stands behind the infrared camera, pointing its lens towards Eugene Von Guerard's 1864 painting A View of the Snowy Bluff on the Wonnangatta River. On the computer screen beside him is a series of blurred lines, spirals and shades of blac

Consider The Past Before Digging Deeper

So, if one were extended, the Defence Minister, John Moore, would consider an invitation from the Indonesian Government to provide equipment and logistics as Ambon spirals out of control. Before we commit, perhaps we should look at recent history. Indonesia stuck out its hand for a $2 billion `

All Eyes Heaven-ward

When David Stephenson last showed at the Australian Centre for Photography in 1998, the American-born photographer filled the eastern wall with Sublime Space, images tracing the intersecting paths of stars. The effect was mesmerising, drawing the viewer into orbit-inspired spirals and, in one me

Sparks Fly In Gay Pride's Blast-off To The Future

Karen Carpenter singing `Calling occupants of interplanetary craft" was the refrain as 50 dancers, clad in silver skirts and fluorescent spirals headgear, flung their arms into the air to usher in the new millennium at the gay and lesbian dance party Pride. The theme to the show, led by perf

Superdome Buzzes To Life

Laser lights and musical thunder, synchronised gymnastics, basketball shots, Icarus characters doing controlled downwards spirals - a spectacular opening for our newest entertainment venue, the Sydney SuperDome at Homebush Bay, which brought the Olympics Minister, Mr Knight, out beaming. Capable

'let's Get Pauline Hanson Over'

Although smoke spirals from a tandoor instead of a barbecue, it's still a typical family gathering overflowing with chatter, friends, a grandmother, parents, excitable children and an abundance of food. Yet this is more than a family get-together at Cennet Bagdas' Brunswick home. It is the scene

Yuan Swallow Does Not Make Summer

There has long been a tendency to overestimate the importance of things Chinese, but it reached new heights in financial markets this week over the possibility that the yuan might be devalued in the wake of the yen's weakness, sending other Asian currencies into new downward spirals and leading to g

Implanted Fears

MOVIE World's latest thrillseeker ride, Lethal Weapon (pictured), produces some unusual effects on the suspended bodies it carries through its high speed loops and spirals. But a young woman at the Gold Coast theme park was taking no chances when she asked the attendants not to fasten her restr

Apocalypse When

VULCAN volcano rises on Simpson Harbour beside a road cut through 15 metres of volcanic ash spewed out a year ago. Rains have cut deep furrows into its steeply-sloping sides and wind spirals dust around the crater's lip. Along the foreshore to the north is a scene reminiscent of Apocalypse Now. The