Michael Connor

There is no viable alternative to Israel’s planned operation into Rafah. Eliminating Hamas will be a brutal operation with heavy casualties and unavoidable collateral damage, but it is also a necessary step on the path to a better world. Israel deserves our support.

Nelson T. Castellano is a familiar face at Trenam Law. Now a managing shareholder, he joined the Tampa Bay firm more than 30 years ago. He has spent his entire legal career there.

If Martians had landed on the front beach of my home town in the middle of my childhood, a small boy and his dog (Larry) would have been straight down to see what they were doing. Also present would have been Mr Porter the policeman, Councillor Golightly the mayor, and possibly Eddie George, the proprietor of Eddie’s Store, to measure them up for winter jumpers or summer bathers. It would have been a welcome of curiosity, authority and commerce. It wasn’t like that in Botany Bay in 1770.

There are books you save from childhood, a few that somehow survive through an untidy life. I was fourteen when I bought The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer. I know because I wrote the date inside. Our family, after the end of the Argus, read the Sun every day. I bought the Saturday Age for the book reviews. In my reading habits my library borrowings were sliding from children’s books into the adult section. My much-used borrowing number was 54J. The Shirer was large and bold: black, white and red front dustjacket with twisted…

Before Bruce Pascoe was Aboriginal he was Jewish, but it didn’t take. In 1999, the year he was fifty-two, he came out as Leopold Glass. It was a pseudonym chosen for his self-published novel Ribcage —a book of crime, money and race. A mock bio of Leopold Glass described a man who had mislaid his family: “He is currently researching the life of his paternal grandmother who grew up in a New South Wales orphanage with no clear records.” Unlike Glass, the real author had two grandmothers with very clear records.

At the heart of CAN's mission is advocacy, clinical practice, research and innovation, education and outreach. Not only does the Tampa-based organization advocate for those affected by HIV and STDs, and educate them on treatment options, but it also provides comprehensive medical care. Patients can get a test kit, receive a diagnosis and start medication all in one central location. CAN Community Health, which has multiple locations around the country, also has built in-house pharmacies for convenience.

Friedreich's ataxia is a rare, genetic condition that affects approximately 5,000 people in the United States and 15,000 around the world. Debilitating and progressive, it is often diagnosed during childhood.

Abstract Nasopharyngeal colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae is characterised epithelial cell adherence, microinvasion and an innate immune response.

Abstract Nasopharyngeal colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae is characterised by adherence to epithelial cells, microinvasion and an innate immune response.

Boom, boom, boom! went the cannons on the Endeavour in 1770. The sound has come a long way: