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...only thing that distinguishes Grahame Walsh's home from any other in suburban Brisbane is the eerie silhouette overlooking his letterbox. It depicts a wanjina - a mysterious ancient figure painted on cave walls in Australia's remote northwest. But the figure merely hints at what lies inside the two-story brick house: hundreds of thousands of images of some of the country's most extraordinary pieces of rock art, including the famous Bradshaw paintings, many of them unseen by non-Aborigines until Walsh trekked through hostile, lonely terrain to photograph them...
...naturally,'' says traditional landowner Lionel Fraser, of Roma, in western Queensland. "Walshy wouldn't come near me after, because I told him I would punch him in the mouth.'' Walsh says he has hidden the bones in a cave in the Carnarvon Gorge region, about 600 km northwest of Brisbane, and will not reveal its location unless he is satisfied the remains will be properly cared...
...bird, the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, which was listed as an endangered species after a survey found just 12 of them left in the state. The owl, which weighs 2.5 oz. and nests in cavities in saguaro cacti, had established a small population in prime development land northwest of Tucson. After the bird's listing, house building in the area came to a halt...
...February, Harvard got the go-ahead from the city’s Planning Board to begin construction on the Northwest Science Building, one of three science buildings scheduled for development in the next few years...
RELEASED. REBIYA KADEER, 58, prominent Muslim political prisoner; by the Chinese government; in Beijing. Kadeer, a member of the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang province, was arrested in August 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners." Her release came in advance of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing. Kadeer immediately flew to the U.S. and, upon arrival in Washington, D.C., told a cheering crowd, "I will keep on fighting for my people until my last breath...