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...island of Mindanao remains troubled. A Muslim separatist rebellion has raged there for decades. Al-Qaeda members have roamed the island. Foreign businessmen and missionaries must constantly be on guard there against kidnappers. But Davao, a sprawling port city on the southern coast, has emerged as the exception?an oasis of peace in the middle of the Philippines' lush center of chaos...
...based on politics, he is certainly willing to nudge policy to help a Republican candidate in need. Simon paid a visit to the White House Wednesday, and when he emerged, he announced that Bush had said he would talk with Simon about prohibiting offshore oil drilling off the California coast. (Davis has been fighting the White House on this issue for some time.) Bush has been a proponent of offshore drilling as a way to alleviate energy concerns. But despite his dire warnings that the country has to drill more, Bush will give California a reprieve if it helps Simon...
...walking across the reef. The tour ends with a flight over the islands and reefs where, from an altitude of only a few hundred meters, it's easy to spot the spout of a migrating humpback whale or the remains of one of the many shipwrecks that dot the coast. Browse www.abrolhos.com.au for more details...
STONE GARDEN They look masterminded. In the Pinnacles Desert, thousands of soaring spires rise from shifting yellow sands like some antipodean Stonehenge. Dutch explorers sailing along the coast in the 16th century spied these jagged sharp-edged columns and tombstone-like pillars from their ships and concluded that the formations were evidence of some ancient civilization. They were wrong. The Pinnacles are another of Western Australia's natural wonders, and perhaps its most photographed...
...OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...