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...walk into the bush and you'll be amazed at what you find," says Rae Edwards, owner of the Kalbarri Wildflower Centre. A big part of her job is teaching people how to look. "If you see a bird or bee on a bush, it's a clue there are flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blooming Invisible | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...misty dawn reveals an endless vista of saltbush: They're bang in the middle of an ancient seabed stretching 700 km from South Australia's Head of the Bight west to Balladonia. Nullarbor translates as "no trees" in Latin, and for the moment the truckers are without a clue. "Usually when there's a fault, a series of codes will flash up on the dash, but that's not coming up," Schneider says. "You just have to try and eliminate all the possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Mechanics | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...chance of living." After the war, while he and his late wife Claire raised their three children (in this very house, which he built in 1951), he armed himself with books, a magnifying glass and, later, a video camera, and "followed up every bit of a clue I could find" about spiders. His discoveries about what he calls "probably the greatest predators of all"-our silent allies, he says, in the fight against insect pests-at times moved him to poetry: "the rearing plunge, one breath/ One quiver, trussed, immobile, bound in silk!/ Transfixed by spider fangs-held fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask the Arachnophile | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...become distressingly routine. The new movie recalls older, better ones in its attempts at fantasy and its cameo by Death, but it is deficient as a mystery (it leaves unsolved the premature death that sets the tale in motion) and as a character study (we haven't a clue about what makes Peter tick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Scoop or Two? None | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...positions on most other issues seem standard cardboard purchased from the Democratic Campaign Depot store. And there is no getting away from the war. The first few questions from the Indian Americans were about Iraq. In answering them, Lamont revealed an additional weakness. He doesn't have a clue about what he'd do about the war beyond a general let's-get-outta-there body language. It's a forgivable offense. At this point, Lieberman is not offering much more than stay-the-course body language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lieberman's Last Stand | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

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