To most Australians, "humpty doo" means "all right, everything is O.K." But to the hardy residents of tiny Humpty Doo in Australia's Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas—the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen...
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