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...Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said passengers were facing waits as long as 45 minutes and more as the evening rush approached. Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the organization, said JetBlue, Kennedy's largest domestic carrier, was even holding up flights because of the longer lines...
...played by such enormously talented players has to resort to a penalty shoot-out after 90 minutes of normal playing time and 30 minutes of extra time to decide the outcome? And then, that outcome ultimately rests on the goalkeeper's guessing correctly which way to dive! Tuan Pickard Port Elizabeth, South Africa Controversial Cleric I was saddened by your interview with Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop?elect of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. [July 17]. When asked about her focus as head of her church, she mentioned feeding people, providing primary education, promoting sustainable development and healing...
There's an unbending stretch of bitumen, but little else here tells of human intervention. Several hours of red dirt and hardy scrub and 240 km north of Port Hedland, a gray-haired multitude has gathered at the end of a gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part...
Driving south from Port Augusta, travelers could be forgiven for missing the sign to Ray Myers' hobby farm. On a sunny morning, the lead smelters of Port Pirie shimmer on the horizon to the south like an outback Venice, while to the north, the Flinders Ranges begin their majestic roll. They were partly what brought Sydney-born Myers, 64, to the area on holiday in 1966, and his love affair with the landscape has continued ever since. "Change color every hour," he says...
...rest of the year, the course lies mainly dormant, except when giant gray kangaroos come to graze, or roadhouse workers Craig Cooke and Kris Hutchison come for R and R. (New Zealander Hutchison, 23, prefers the nearby mini-golf course-"It's cool.") For Port Lincoln-born Cooke, 34, it's sometimes necessary to get away from the relative rat race of the Nullarbor. "A lot happens out of Eucla," he insists. "We've had suicides, cyclists go under trucks, cars flip over-you name it." But they've yet to see a hole...