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...Kalbarri National Park, cut by the gorges of the Murchison River, borders the North West Coastal Highway. It contains more than 800 wildflower species, but they're not screaming out to the motorist flashing by at the 110-km/h limit. "We tell people, Stop the car, get out, walk into the bush and you'll be amazed at what you find," says Rae Edwards, owner of the Kalbarri Wildflower Centre. A big part of her job is teaching people how to look. "If you see a bird or bee on a bush, it's a clue there are flowers...
...were tough. "It was a dog's life," he says, with nights spent at sea without amenities in an "open-slather" industry in which "everyone was ready to shoot each other." Things today are far more civilized. Each of the 181 licensed fishermen in Steele's Southern Zone is limited to a maximum catch: no more than 159.3 kg per lobster pot per October?May season. Once you reach that limit, you're on holidays, though usually with decent spending money. As the 17-m fiberglass lobster on the edge of town suggests, Kingston's prosperity depends in no small...
...Borroloola Inn, feeds the mayhem by serving people who are obviously drunk. The operators say the unfair accusations have driven them to put the pub up for sale. "The hotel in any Aboriginal community is probably looked on as a monster," says Christopher Taylor, the licensee's husband. To limit the risk of problems, he says, closing time on Sundays has been brought forward...
...Number of fortysomethings who have enlisted in the Army since the age limit was raised in June from just under 40 to just...
...buoyed by recent discoveries of ample crude reserves off its own coast.) What's more, just beneath Raul sit a number of younger and ideologically purer communist officials, like 40-year-old Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, who are known derisively by many Cubans as "los Taliban" and could limit Raul's room to maneuver on any potential reform...