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Bill Bryson doesn't look like a troublemaker. With his corduroy jacket, woolly pullover and roughly trimmed beard, he seems more the mild-mannered, professorial sort than a travel writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following...
...Qaeda target, Osama bin Laden's statement that Australia has waged a "crusade" against the Islamic world and dismembered East Timor, credible intelligence that a number of Afghanistan-trained Australians were dispatched on missions to strike inside Australia, and Australia's high profile participation in the campaign in Afghanistan, Canberra announced a week before Bali that there was no significant threat of terrorism to Australia or to its interests overseas...
...AUSTRALIA No to Kyoto A day after Japan became the 73rd signatory to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, Prime Minister John Howard announced that Australia would not sign the treaty. "For us to ratify the protocol would cost us jobs and damage our industry," he told Parliament in Canberra. The protocol requires greenhouse gas emissions to be cut back to 1990 levels. Howard says Australia will ratify the agreement if the U.S., which produces 36% of the world's carbon emissions, also signs. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS Enduring Damage After the oil tanker Jessica ran aground on San Cristobal in January...
...finest and most extensive collections of rock art and embraces some spectacular scenery, from a rugged 500-km-long sandstone escarpment to extensive woodlands and wetlands. It is also on Asia's doorstep: its gateway city, Darwin, is closer to Jakarta and Singapore than to the nation's capital, Canberra. Most people visit during the dry season (April-September), when the humidity is low and comfortable 21C-33C temperatures prevail. But we chose to come in February despite the intense humidity, frequent downpours, flooded roads and dramatic electrical thunderstorms that are regular features of the wet season (December-March). Sweating...
...horizon." Since Washington's last thoroughgoing review of its defense policy, its relationship with key allies in Asia has also expanded. Australia showed in East Timor it was prepared to deploy its first-class armed forces in pursuit of regional security; expect Washington to deepen its security ties with Canberra...