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...Including, now, a Hollywood-style film set. Last decade one of Albany's famous sons, novelist Tim Winton, created a young surf rat not too dissimilar to Wade, and the children's TV series based on him, Lockie Leonard, has been shooting at the author's alma mater, Albany Senior High School. While the cost of lugging cast and crew more than 400 km south of Perth for the 21-week shoot undoubtedly cut into the $A7.5 million budget, the decision was a natural one for producer Kylie du Fresne. "Everything Tim writes about in the book is here...
...good season, Arneth says, he used to take 10 to 20 crocodiles a day: "You'd shoot them in the earhole." Stalking and killing them was easy compared to retrieving the carcass. If the crocodile was shot in water, he says, "We'd draw straws to see who would have to dive in and get it. You'd go by touch and hope it was killed." But the risks were all part of the thrill. Nowadays, he says mournfully, "You can't do anything without a license. You can't even smoke in the pub anymore...
...pilots may be able to turn around and fly home at the end of the day, but that doesn't mean it's a question of shoot and forget. On the contrary, like everyone else, they return home to watch the international news of Israeli bombing runs gone wrong: cars of fleeing families hit, apartment buildings smashed and hundreds of Lebanese civilians killed...
...view is that it should keep Hizballah fighters and weapons out of a strip near the Israeli border and help Lebanon's army take a greater role there. According to Lebanese officials, Rice has suggested rules of engagement allowing its soldiers, who may number up to 20,000, to shoot back but not to go door to door looking for Hizballah. That reflects a realistic appreciation that foreign soldiers could not possibly disarm the group throughout the country and could become enmeshed in a nasty war if they tried. British Prime Minister Tony Blair signaled that Hizballah would hardly...
...sleepy park ranger. So, a smart poacher will plunge a spear down the trapped animal's throat and tear out its vocal chords; then, at his leisure, he can poison or electrocute the cat-or, if the buyer doesn't mind a bullet hole in the pelt, simply shoot...