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...Australian native, after driving over a koala bear, was attacked by the same animal...
Hillary Rodham Clinton knows all about sharp pruning shears and long knives. Last week, while the President and First Lady were enjoying a holiday of golf, snorkeling, shopping and koala cuddling that masqueraded as a state visit to Australia, the spirit of this straight-talking country moved the First Lady to a new level of candor--the most searching comments she has made about the controversies bedeviling her at home. In her first speech and first interview since the election, Hillary Clinton demonstrated that the wallflower role she played on the campaign trail is a thing of the past...
...pocket-size monkey with a koala-like face, a hint of stripes like a zebra and tufted ears is the latest species to be discovered in the world's largest rain forest. Named after the Brazilian river near which it was spied, the Maues marmoset is the third new monkey to be found in the forest during the last two years. Such revelations underscore the Amazon's biological richness (it is home to more than a quarter of the world's known primate species) and its continuing mystery...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo., which the Kamoris bought last year for a reported $110 million. The elder Kamori has not confined his interest to the slopes. Besides owning amusement parks and golf courses in Japan, he has converted an Australian farm to a wildlife sanctuary, earning him the nickname Mr. Koala...
Despite such reassurances, a plan inspired by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry to build a satellite city for retired Japanese expatriates on Australia's east coast seems to have been shelved. When a Japanese company earlier this year bought Brisbane's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, a ranking tourist attraction, 1,300 angry Gold Coasters jammed a protest meeting. Reported Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Tsuneo Sugishita: "I was seized by the illusion that I was attending an anti-Japanese rally in a country at war with Japan...