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...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...
...make indirect attacks on the ruling party. Perhaps she also feels such an antigovernment work could be written only from the safety of exile?Lau migrated to Australia a few years ago, where the novel has garnered numerous awards, including the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. It's heartening to find extraordinary artists like Lau, who through ingenuity and invention manage to be heard...
...Japan, "beauty has never been polarized as a feminine attribute," says Mark McLelland, a sociology professor at the University of Queensland. Last month, a high school student was banned from a judo competition north of Tokyo. Tournament officials were put off by his heavily tweezed face, which they said was "too intimidating." Butch is in the eye of the beholder...