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...Drives are organized every two years, taking different routes each time. The next herding adventure is planned between May 5 and June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert and skirt the vast expanse of Lake Eyre's salt flats. Although cattle are transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will...
...speech advocates once dreamed that the Internet might make it impossible for repressive governments to control information and stifle dissent. But while the Internet has given dissidents more ways to communicate with some privacy, authoritarian regimes have still found ways to censor websites, to monitor e-mail and to track down and jail online offenders. Still, in this game of electronic cat and mouse, the methods for evading roadblocks are evolving, and in Vietnam pro-democracy activists have hit upon a useful tool: Internet telephony, or Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP...
...Luke's parents searched online for better intervention methods and came upon Boston Higashi. The school uses rigorous exercise to get autistic children to start eating and sleeping regularly. And once those biorhythms are on track, students can begin to acquire basic living and academic skills. Within four months of being at Higashi, Luke went home for vacation mostly toilet trained. He has since conquered such complex tasks as riding a unicycle and walking on stilts--activities that have given him confidence to try other new things. "I do think he can have a life that's happy and maybe...
...Australian Outback Cattle Drive offers visitors a chance to ride those same desert trails, accompanying herds up to 500 strong. Drives are organized every two years, taking different routes each time. The next herding adventure is planned between May 5 and June 10, 2007, along the 400-mile Oodnadatta Track. Participants will ride across the seemingly endless plains of the South Australian Desert and skirt the vast expanse of Lake Eyre's salt flats. Although cattle are transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes...
Additional logistical details about the process, such as how students would track their requirements and inform the Registrar’s Office have not yet been resolved...