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Depending on whom you talk to, Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest road, its longest continuous highway, or the longest without crossing a national border. Whatever the qualification, there's no doubt it's long. Some 15,000 km of multi-lane freeway, dual carriageway, two-lane bitumen and corrugated dirt, it circles the Australian mainland, never far from the coast, and bisects Tasmania...
...hurt in the dual bombing, but suddenly the Lebanese army showed up and pushed everyone back. One of the bombs hadn't exploded and was still live. Hizballah minders were also present. They're laying low in the town, but when something happens they swarm over it. One scruffy-bearded young man confiscated a reporter's memory card when he took an unapproved picture...
...instead is trying to establish them on its own. The strongest argument made by domestic critics of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last year was that the country's enemies would think it was weak and frightened and thus would be encouraged to strike out. Olmert's dual counterblasts are aimed at changing that impression--among those who believe it--to make the idea of attacking Israel prohibitively scary to the other side or, as the Israelis put it, to re-establish deterrence...
Full-blown childhood crises may forge even stronger lifelong links. The death of a parent blows some families to bits. But when older sibs step in to help raise younger ones, the dual role of contemporary and caretaker can lay the foundation for an indestructible closeness later on. Wayne Duvall, 48, a television and film actor in New York City and the youngest of three brothers, was just 13 when his father died. His older brothers, who had let him get away with all manner of mischief when both parents were in residence, intuitively knew that the family no longer...
...over," he says. The Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells, for example, runs a 125,000-sq.-ft. indoor water park (the U.S.'s largest) and almost as much meeting and convention space. The Reno Hilton will reopen in 2007, as the Grand Sierra Resort, with a similar dual strategy...