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...first time people have complained about rogue crocodiles in Lakefield National Park. In the mid-1990s, a radical kind of aversion therapy was tried there in which rangers captured a crocodile, then shot a rifle near it, repeatedly circled it in a boat, and dazzled it with a spotlight. Says one ranger: "That croc has behaved itself ever since." But not all experts endorse such tactics. At Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Professor Graham Webb, who pioneered crocodile research and management in the Northern Territory, says unpleasant encounters with humans make the reptiles much harder to spot. "All it will...
...very important to her," explains Smith, "and even the works in the still life groups today could be used if people wished to do so; but people tend not to want to use a cup that costs $A25,000." But her modernist instinct goes beyond mere utility. In the mid-'80s, having returned to Australia after 15 years living and working in England, France and the U.S., Hanssen Pigott began to exhibit for the first time what she calls her "inseparable bowls," the ceramic clusters and trails for which she is now justly famous. "I like what happens to more...
...traveling has become more arduous. The first time Gabriel, one of the guests at the Bridgehampton quinceañera, crossed the border in 1990, he left Tijuana at 6 p.m. and reached his sister in Los Angeles by 8 a.m. the next day. But after the border crackdowns of the mid-1990s, he has had to seek out new routes. In 1999 he flew from Mexico City to Montreal and went to a random downtown McDonald's, where he thought he could bump into Hispanics. If he found some Mexicans there, he reasoned, one of them would know how to sneak...
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