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...There are many threatened species in the park, and the drought isn't helping. The ground is poor in nutrients-"Dead soil, bottomless sand, really," says Edwards, "but great for natives"-and with barely 25 mm of rain so far (against last year's 125), the threat intensifies. Edwards points to a pink Verticordia. One book says it's common over a fairly wide range, but "it only grows here, despite what the guide says." The featherflower is tiny, fragile, exquisite. Not many people have seen one. It's easy to understand how the addiction might start...
Just west of Burketown, Highway 1 on the map turns into a dotted line that staggers all the way to Borroloola, across the Northern Territory border. On the ground, that translates to 480 corrugated kilometers of red dirt and gravel-a track that's bone-jarring at the best of times and, in the wet season, impassable. For the people who live along the road, keeping that dotted line from disappearing off the map is an unrelenting struggle...
...Airacobra. Back in April 1942, Beck says, it landed in New Guinea with four other brand-new P-39s, all emblazoned with the U.S. Army Air Force insignia, a blue circle containing a white star with a red dot at the center. The Australians on the ground were aghast: Japanese aircraft were marked with a red dot. An Australian officer immediately ordered all of the dots painted over. (Soon after, the red dot was removed from standard U.S. markings...
...pulled open. But only 11 will ride the bull, and only four will know the glory of doing it twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed in the air, flung to the ground and, if they're lucky, escape being trampled by a "big, high-horned buckin' bull" that, as the announcer booms, "has about one-tenth the power of a Mack truck." If they're unlucky, well, there are two paramedics in the front row and an ambulance out the back...
...together with the leadership of board chairman Norman Cox-explain much of the school's success. Boyle, who witnessed a long, slow decline, senses that things may have turned around for indigenous people. "Local knowledge is so important," he says. "If you can get the right people on the ground to work with elders and the community's board, you can get these people off the ground...