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John Lever runs a farm in Queensland with 3,000 crocodiles and has bagged more than 90 in the rough, including one that was five meters long. How hard could it be to trap a 1.2-meter specimen discovered in a fetid creek in an industrial area of Hong Kong's New Territories? Lever tried last week but quickly found he wasn't in Queensland anymore...
...DIED. R.M. WILLIAMS, 95, iconic cattleman of the Australian bush whose leather-goods and clothing company became a global business empire; near Toowoomba, Queensland. Williams worked as a gold prospector and ranch hand before he began making elastic-sided boots in a shed in the 1930s. He became a multimillionaire but remained a rugged outdoorsman. At the age of 70, Williams finished first in a 250-kilometer horse race in Queensland...
...Queensland?s Sunshine Coast and 160 kilometers north of Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired...
MARKETING STRATEGY It's well worth a trek into the hippie hills beyond Noosa for a visit to the legendary Eumundi Market. Its location is a gift?the gorgeous village of Eumundi is one of the few Queensland towns that have almost entirely preserved its colonial and Federation-period architecture. Many of the buildings surrounding the market were built between 1890 and 1930. And there's an engrossing little museum to browse through when market burnout sets...
...scramjet has flown outside of a wind tunnel. It will take years of work before scramjets are available for practical uses, but they could eventually revolutionize space launches and commercial flights. At Mach 7, New York City to Tokyo is just a two-hour hop. INVENTOR The University of Queensland AVAILABILITY Alas, commercial flights are still many years away TO LEARN MORE www.mech.uq.edu.au/hyper/hyshot...