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...doesn't take long to get to the point in remote Australia (Lake Ballard is about 800 km east of Perth and about the same distance again to the South Australian border). And paring back to the essence of things was the whole aim of Antony Gormley's $A500,000 Inside Australia sculpture project. For the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, the Englishman digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found...
...Bodaghi, who runs a backpackers' lodge in Darwin, at least 10 foreign tourists have asked him if Kakadu is closed. The rumor is sending shudders through an industry that each year serves 80,000 backpackers, who spend about $A19 million in Kakadu alone. The Territory Labor government has promised $A500,000 for an international advertising campaign to soothe such concerns. But Bodaghi, president of the N.T. Backpacker Association, doesn't believe the federal government's Parks Australia North, which co-manages Kakadu with traditional owners representing an indigenous population of around 600, takes tourism seriously: "This is the beginning...
...SAMSUNG A500 For folks addicted to their cell phones, customization is key. With the A500, you can create icons for every caller and set the background using any JPEG you want--a great way to make use of the active-matrix LCD. Sprint's PCS Vision even lets you download Java games and other programs straight to the phone. www.sprintpcs.com...
SAMSUNG SPH-a500 Packs a lot into its compact space-age clamshell; in addition to a color screen and Java programs, it carries a GPS chip (so that it can be used as an emergency locator beacon...
...Concepcion, chairman of NAMFREL, a500,000-member citizens' volunteer pollwatchinggroup, said in an interview there was "not muchrampant cheating," but said many voters wereconfused in some areas because they could not findtheir names on posted lists and some pollingstations didn't open on time...
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