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...rich by creating scenes and spaces that were the last word in cool. Can he now capitalize on quirky? Can he redefine the $122 billion U.S. hotel business the way he did back in 1984, when he and his then partner Steve Rubell opened Morgans on a nondescript stretch of Madison Avenue and introduced high style to hospitality? "Absolutely, people will want to see what he's doing," says Jeff Weinstein, editor of Hotels magazine. "But it's going to be hard for him to break new ground now because the industry has caught up with him. They've embraced...
There's an unbending stretch of bitumen, but little else here tells of human intervention. Several hours of red dirt and hardy scrub and 240 km north of Port Hedland, a gray-haired multitude has gathered at the end of a gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part...
...These are three victims of the slaughter of wildlife on Australia's roads. Quantifying the annual carnage is impossible, but "it's going to run into millions," says Daniel Ramp, an environmental scientist at the University of New South Wales. He's been studying a 30-km stretch of the Snowy Mountains Highway for six years, and each year it has claimed around 650 kangaroos. "And that's not counting wombats, possums or anything else," he says...
...usual culprit along this stretch of road is the kangaroo. "The roos breed up something phenomenal," says Eucla mechanic Rodney Fowler, who regularly tows broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply...
...There's never a dull moment,'' says 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...