Word: outbacker
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...Beyond Manututo, a hot and dusty seaside town where boys with deflated footballs at their feet dream of being Beckham, the country opens up. From here the road cuts through lush rice paddies, across salt pans and alongside mangrove swamps, traversing desolate country more characteristic of outback Australia than Asia...
...they fed on bison that had drowned in rivers, as well as the Pacific Coast, where they fed on stranded whales. These were grizzlies of prodigious size and power, bold as the noon sun. But the waves of humanity sent the grizzlies retreating into the highest reaches of the outback, into the farthest secret little forests, where they now exist in a no-man's-land, on diets that are as much as 90% vegetarian. The industrial force of the past two centuries selected against the larger, more aggressive grizzlies in the gene pool. Anecdotal evidence suggests that they...
...OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
...wearing a bow tie in them. But apparently the Miss Teen USA judges had a problem with the whole having-a-penis thing. My second crown was revoked for the same reason (different set of photographs—this series was set in the Australian outback). I guess they had forgotten about the first incident...
...reasonable people in society. Many countries are not afforded this luxury. If you play soccer for Colombia and cost your team a game with an own goal, you get shot (Andres Escobar, anyone?). In the United States, you get a day of disappointment, followed by a 2002 Subaru Outback from Rosie O’Donnell as a sympathy gift...