Word: desertions
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...vast herds of cattle along the outback's traditional stock routes. In an attempt to recapture some of the adventure of a drover's life (a drover is the Australian answer to a cowboy), the Great Australian Outback Cattle Drive offers visitors a chance to ride those same desert trails, accompanying herds up to 500 strong...
...Drives are organized every two years, taking different routes each time. The next herding adventure is planned between May 5 and June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert and skirt the vast expanse of Lake Eyre's salt flats. Although cattle are transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will...
...President George W. Bush on the issue of how to interrogate and try terrorism suspects, it helps to know how Lindsey Graham spent part of his summer. A month ago, when most Senators were back home campaigning and fund raising, he was in Kabul, Afghanistan, answering to "Colonel." Wearing desert fatigues, with an M9 pistol strapped to his hip, Graham was conducting a two-day tutorial on the principles of U.S. military law at the Afghan Defense Ministry. He recalls coaching Afghan military lawyers, who are modeling their system after that of the U.S.: "It's important that when...
...directive] vast herds of cattle along the outback's traditional stock routes. In an attempt to recapture some of the adventure of a drover's life (a drover is the Australian answer to a cowboy), the Great Australian Outback Cattle Drive offers visitors a chance to ride those same desert trails, accompanying herds up to 500 strong. Drives are organized every two years, taking different routes each time. The next herding adventure is planned between May 5 and June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert...
...just leave and abandon the benefits of their hard labor over the last two generations. Just as it is unthinkable here that the United States should give back Texas or Arizona to Mexico, it is nearly unthinkable that Israel should give areas like Gilo, which were nothing but desert under Jordanian control, over to a Palestinian state...