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...control the crown-of-thorns, some scientists suggest repopulating the reefs with tritons, which are now protected by law in Queensland, Australia. Others propose spreading lime on the ocean floor, a technique that has already been used with moderate success to protect Long Island Sound's oyster beds from the common American starfish, Asterias forbesi. A Japanese scientist has even advised stringing wire around coral reefs to repel the starfish with a low-voltage electric shock...
...Queensland Alumina Ltd. operation, for instance, Australian ownership is less than 1%; the remainder is held by British, Canadian, U.S. and French companies in consortium. Mount Goldsworthy Mining Associates, which ships 4,000,000 tons of iron ore to Japan annually, is 8% Australian and 92% British and American. The only large project in which Australians hold a majority interest, Gorton was told, is the Mount Newman iron mines, where their share...
...states. The company's newest thrust upward, however, is Down Under, where Utah and two partners will soon be shipping 4,500,000 tons of iron ore a year from the Mount Goldsworthy mine in western Australia. Utah is also developing six deposits of coking coal in Queensland that are among the world's biggest. Not surprisingly, all the ore and coal are so far committed to raw material-poor Japanese steel and chemical companies. One of Utah's favorite customers back home is U. S. Steel, for which the company supplies some 600,000 tons...
Nabokov's achievements fully merit a major critical study. Andrew Field, a New Jersey-born critic now teaching Russian literature at the University of Queensland in Australia, microscopically analyzes all 15 Nabokov novels and the major short stories and poems, and traces Nabokov's abiding themes-love, death, exile and memory-through his Russian and American books...
...rising export trade made possible by new efficiencies has also created a need for big new coal harbors all along the Queensland and New South Wales coasts. At Port Kembla, for example, an $11 million facility loads ships at a 2,000-ton-an-hour rate, has cut loading time from four days to one. Cheaper coal makes Australia a competitive exporter, principally to Japan, which last year took 7,000,000 tons for steelmaking. U.S. coal still accounts for 48% of Japanese imports, but the Australian share has climbed to 30% and undersells U.S. coal...