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...Burke Shire Mayor Annie Clarke, whose tiny council oversees the 225-km stretch from Burketown to the border. Floods create much of the drama: monsoonal rains and cyclones regularly swell Gulf Country rivers and send stormy seas surging across the low coastline. Early this year, floods inundated 6,000 sq. km of Burke Shire, turning Highway 1 into a chain of atolls; supplies had to be dropped to some settlements by helicopter. At Floraville station, 73 km south of the town-and 80 km inland-the homestead was an island for two weeks, and sharks were seen circling the henhouse...
...that he, his wife and kids had used for their traveling crusade. Andrea and Noah, 4, preferred the bus to the trailer, so Rusty bought it. Noah and John slept in "the hole," a luggage compartment accessible from the cabin through a trapdoor. The 350 sq. ft. of living space would also house Paul, who would be only 17 months old when brother Luke was born...
What distinguishes Yeo from other kidnappers, of course, is that his targets go willingly. They happily relocate to Singapore's new 2 million-sq.-ft. Biopolis research center, where they can concentrate on one thing they can't always study so easily back home: stem cells. Just last week President George W. Bush used the first veto of his presidency to block a congressional action that would have lifted his 2001 ban on federal funding for most stem-cell research, ensuring that cell lines will remain scarce and money short at research centers lacking the state funding or private wealth...
...Cairo, the Pharaoh of Egyptian exporters. Starting with a single loom in 1980, he has become the leading producer of machine-woven carpets in the world. From a string of factories in the industrial 10th of Ramadan City, 34 miles northeast of Cairo, Oriental Weavers ships 70 million sq. ft. of carpets a year, yielding $280 million in revenues. Its customers include such retailers as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Ikea and Carrefour. With 63% of the shares held by the Khamis family, the firm has a capitalization of $600 million...
...TITAN TENT Sales of big car-camping tents are up 117% over the past three years. The new three-person, two-door Mutha Hubba, $380 from Mountain Safety Research, is both spacious (3.7 sq m of floor space) and lightweight (around 3 kilos...