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FLOWER POWER Just 80 km south of Dongara and a three-hour drive from Perth lies the dusty, sunbaked township of Eneabba, which has as many dogs as people. It's home to a general store, some uninspired architecture and a rutile sand factory, which employs half the population of 286. This is a place to fill the gas tank, wipe the splattered insects off the windscreen and vamoose in a cloud of dust. But from mid-July to the end of October, Eneabba undergoes a startling transformation into one of Australia's most impressive natural attractions. The spring rains...
James P. Conroy, head counselor at New Trier Township High School outside Chicago, stresses the importance of weather and location in the college choice...
...particularly from the US. And at each stop, O'Neill demurs. "I think Paul O'Neill is going to be a very different person going out of this trip than he was coming in," Bono told TIME after a visit to an AIDS clinic in the impoverished South African township of Soweto. "He will take a message back to Washington that much more can be done...
...bottom of America's electronics wastebasket lies the township of Guiyu. The cluster of villages in southern China's Guangdong province is a dumping ground for mountains of scrapped computers and high-tech appliances, the detritus of a digital revolution going on an ocean away. Blue Dongfeng trucks with heaving loads of broken hardware dominate the roads and kick dust into the faces of the bicycle-cart drivers, their own cargo of tangled wires swaying with each turn. Atop a riverbank junk heap near the Meizhou bridge, a piece of cardboard flutters in the breeze?printed on it are keystroke...
...same time the AIDS rebels hit on another front. The tac's chairman, Zackie Achmat, went to Brazil to obtain a consignment of cheap, generic antiretroviral drugs for a program of treatment of 85 HIV/AIDS victims, adults and children, in the black township of Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town. Achmat's shopping trip to Brazil was in open defiance of South Africa's patents law. "Potentially we face a civil action from the drugs companies," said Achmat last week. "We'll just have to wait and see." But public opinion is so firmly behind the activists that drugmakers in South...