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...unfortunate that decisions by the referees were sometimes questionable, and obviously so, since television viewers could see what really happened through slow-motion replays. FIFA's refusal to introduce modern technology for referees to consult on difficult calls is a great loss for the fans and athletes. The human eye is not always able to determine correctly whether a player is offside or has committed a foul. Today, any decision has a great impact on everyone involved, both financially and emotionally. Kees van der Pligt Amsterdam It was heartbreaking to see Italy's triumphant World Cup team on the cover...
...nothing like the tourist brochures out here on the wildflower trail. The promised expanses of everlasting daisies are a riot of brown, the crippling drought postponing, if not canceling, their show. Here and there a scarlet burst of desert pea catches the eye, and the soft orange of the acorn banksia glows above creamy white smokebush along the road, but this season's wildflower hunt demands a little more effort...
...Great Australian Bight to Queensland's Bunya Mountains, but a mere 500-km stretch bordering one of the Nullarbor's largest sheep stations, near Cocklebiddy. His painstaking task is to patrol and repair its parameter of chicken wire, laying dog baits as he goes. Little escapes his eagle eye: the other week, marauding camels charged through the fence in two places, while the sudden greening of vegetation from recent rains has caused its own problems. "The actual dingo doesn't do much damage," he insists. "The fox is cunning. It will dig under...
...dressed in the bush uniform of thick check lumberjack shirts or denim, but it is the young girl's outfit that catches the eye. She is nonchalantly wearing a plunging bra under a tiny knitted opera jacket, and around her hips is a sarong made, it appears, out of a doll's handkerchief. By her accent she is from some Nordic land, but you sense the locals wouldn't welcome an outsider's attempt to chat...
...stays parked tonight, but Brian Duggan says most cowboys take that particular ride eventually. Duggan, 27-who didn't ride his bull but didn't need first aid either-has had a broken arm, leg, jaw and eye socket, and a couple of busted knees. "We're pretty tough-bred people that do this," he says...