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...provider of onboard emergency medical assistance for ships and airlines. Founded in 1986 by former nurse Joan Sullivan Garrett, MedAire has grown from a tiny one-woman shop into a $17 million-in-sales company that is now listed on the Australian Stock Exchange after buying a company in Perth that operates Western-style medical clinics in Asia. MedAire, which is based in Tempe, Ariz., made the acquisition in an effort to grab a bigger slice of the estimated $1 billion medical-assistance market for travelers, with Singapore-based International SOS gobbling up some 40% of the industry's revenues...
...EQUESTRIAN Hawley Bennett, Langley, B.C. Stuart Black, Orangeville, Ont. Ashley Holzer, Toronto Cynthia Ishoy, Jerseyville, Ont. Bruce Mandeville, Puslinch, Ont. Ian Millar, Perth, Ont. Leslie Reid, Langley, B.C. Ian Roberts, Victoria, B.C. Belinda Trussell, Stouffville, Ont. Michael Winter, Toronto...
...SWIMMING Keith Beavers, Orangeville, Ont. Mike Brown, Perth, Ont. Scott Dickens, Ancaster, Ont. Jennifer Fratesi, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Erin Gammel, Barriere, B.C. Brent Hayden, Mission, B.C. Andrew Hurd, Oakville, Ont. Riley Janes, Saskatoon, Sask. Brian Johns, Richmond, B.C. Mark Johnston, St. Catharines, Ont. Morgan Knabe, Calgary Rhiannon Leier, Winnipeg Yannick Lupien, Ste-Foy, Que. Mike Mintenko, Moose Jaw, Sask. Nathaniel O'Brien, Victoria, B.C. Brittany Reimer, Surrey, B.C. Matt Rose, Lindsay, Ont. Rick Say, Salmon Arm, B.C. Lauren van Oosten, Calgary Elizabeth Warden, Toronto...
...Since then, the Perth International Arts Festival estimates that more than 4,480 visitors have got to know the people on the lake. At the service station, proprietor Christine proudly shows a photo of her sculpture sent to her by an American tourist - "he said it was so nice to have a connection," she says. At lakeside, a Scottish traveler is illegally setting up camp for the night. "I don't know whether the statues are intrinsically meritorious," he says, "but I like the idea of creating them and installing them in such an out-of-the-way spot." Earlier...
...answer. In a place where employment opportunities are, as Finlayson puts it, "zilch," Gormley's Inside Australia is a potential tourist goldmine. Shire plans are already underway for a $A175,000 development of the site, making the sculptures more secure, and improving visitor facilities. Meanwhile on a billboard in Perth, a Kalgoorlie promotion features one of the sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even more crucial than the lure of tourist dollars is the lifting of a town's sagging spirits. And it's taken an eccentric Englishman to show black and white Australia coexisting...