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...decade ago or thereabouts, Perth-based photojournalist David Dare Parker explored some of the ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula, near Dampier. He's keen to see them again. The pen-insula alone holds some 10,000 known engravings, but the visitors' center is closed for renovations, there are no signposts, and the intrepid Parker, 47, searches his creaky memory in vain. Low, brown boulders and rust-colored piles of super-hard granophyre give no clue to the location of the artistic riches hidden in the scrub beyond the sealed road from Karratha...
...Though they have been studied for years, the engrav-ings of the Dampier Rock Art Precinct remain a vast mystery. No one is sure what they-or the deliberately assembled piles of rocks that dot the area-signify. Aboriginal elders claim that only people from Burrup country can understand the messages their ancestors etched into the stones, and that those messages must remain secret...
...will increase the company's production capacity to 170 million tons by next year. "We are running flat out, going as hard as we can," says Sam Walsh, who heads Rio Tinto's iron ore group. "There is a buzz in the Pilbara. Everybody loves a new project. Our Dampier port upgrade is employing 840 people. It's good news for the region...
...National Guard members, who are fighting and dying in Bush's ill-conceived war. David Sheffield Los Angeles Bush is a proven leader and a god-fearing man. He goes against the norm, and that ticks off everyone. I'm proud to have him as our President. Mike Dampier Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S. The president has given back to Americans something we have longed for and needed for a long time: hope for a moral and strong U.S. Nancy Jackson Blossom, Texas, U.S. I find your substantiation for choosing Bush as Person of the Year quite appalling. Although "sticking...
...MIKE DAMPIER Hot Springs...