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...mission and asks for a chart of the course. Leaning back in his seat, feet plonked on what anyone but a mariner would call the dashboard, Cummins jiggles a joystick in the armrest that operates the boat's flaps and fins, opening up the throttle for a 90-min. dash to the target zone...
...From there, it's a 40-min. drive each morning to Riversleigh. Only one of the sites - D site - is open to the public. None of the others is marked, and their precise locations are kept secret to thwart looters and vandals. In all directions as far as the eye can see, Riversleigh is piles of stone, spinifex, scraggy trees and termite mounds. Apart from local Aborigines and the odd ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep...
...wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within minutes the story's refiled, and the paper is done and gone. Journalist friends say they can't understand why she gave up writing, but "the buzz of getting...
...default--and sets him apart from the killer "can openers" in pursuit of Spooner. There's a nifty car chase, with the cop (in an Audi, its logo prominently displayed) set upon by a vicious android posse. Even if the scene is not up there with the 14-min. freeway free-for-all in the second Matrix movie, it's a smart, vigorous blend of live action and computer graphics...
...enough to see again. But anyone who goes to the movie a second time will see something else too. When the indie film, which opened in New York City and Los Angeles on June 11, expands to 300 screens across the country this Friday, it will have a 5-min. epilogue--a brand-new scene, shot just four weeks...