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As to be expected in a country where sport is revered, Sydney has put an enormous effort into getting ready for the biggest international event it has ever staged.
ECONOMIST: Australia
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"It may be that reducing cholesterol to levels that are consistent with what used to be found in rural china is where we need to head, " says Sydney Smith, a cardiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a co-author of the new guidelines.
FORBES: Cholesterol Guidelines A Gift For Merck, Pfizer
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Hundreds of devotees in extravagant costumes travel to the carnival on the Elvis Express, a special train service from Sydney, where the morning rush-hour is invigorated by white jumpsuits, aviator sunglasses and black wigs.
BBC: Australia��s annual rock ��n�� roll pilgrimage
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Sydney is one of the few places in Asia where a bank can set up without expatriates.
ECONOMIST: Australian financial markets
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Dr. Daniel Ramp at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia), where a centre for Compassionate Conservation is being established, notes, by placing compassion alongside conservation, decision-making that results in poor animal welfare and conservation outcomes should become more transparent and avoidable and this will be a great aid to wildlife management.
FORBES: Compassionate Conservation: A Discussion from the Frontlines With Dr. Marc Bekoff
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The centre of gay life in Sydney is Oxford Street, an inner-city Victorian thoroughfare where once tough, working-class pubs have been transformed into the rowdiest gay drinking places in the world.
ECONOMIST: Gays and the Australian economy
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The Sydney 2012 strain was first seen in Australia, where the norovirus season is lasting longer than usual as outbreaks continue into their summer.
BBC: New strain of winter vomiting bug norovirus: Sydney 2012
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These days in Sydney there may still be some hesitation over where to go at night, but it is no longer due to lack of options.
BBC: Sydney��s small bar revolution