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...wearing a large backpack, worn fatigues, had rough skin and his hair didn't look completely washed," Ford said yesterday. "I assumed he was homeless...
...long time ago, a young man bundled himself up in a weatherproof leather coat, shouldered a crude wooden backpack, grabbed a knife, a bow and an ax, and headed into the Tyrolean Alps, which run between Austria and Italy. Up high in the mountains, at about 3,200 m (10,500 ft.), something happened -- an accident, a violent blow -- that took his life and left him to be swallowed by the Similaun Glacier. There he lay, locked in a crevasse, buried, frozen, forgotten...
Barbara, a single mother in her 30s who looks as if tiredness is a permanent condition, slogs up the four-mile trail from a roadhead at Texas Falls. She carries a big, scruffy backpack and a nursing baby. A couple of other kids skip ahead. She comes to Gatherings because "I can feel safe for a few days." Safe from what? She doesn't say, and it doesn't seem necessary...
With that, he glanced nervously about him, produced a stapler from his backpack, and forcefully united his Chick-wich and the underside of the dining hall table. It may still be there...
...HARVARD STUDENTS are just like everyone else," said the man who pretended to check my backpack as I left Hilles Library...