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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...

Author: By Perry Q. Despeignes, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Man Interrupts Student Mass | 2/4/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 4,000-Year-Old Man | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over The Rainbow | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: This Isn't a Stickup | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

...HARVARD STUDENTS are just like everyone else," said the man who pretended to check my backpack as I left Hilles Library...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Are You Tired? I'm Tired. | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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