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...uncoordinated in our approach, and too late to change course when we realize our error. The current of a mighty river doesn't indulge mistakes, which is why I find myself gripping onto the raft as it goes over the rapid sideways and comes to rest at a curious angle on a log. As cold water pours over my shoulders into the boat, I keep saying robotically to my companions, "I'm concerned, I'm deeply concerned." A rafting trip down the length of one of Australia's last, and greatest, wild rivers seemed a natural progression from...
Late last night, a square in one of the city?s grittiest neighborhoods erupted in shouting and yelling. The noise reverberated throughout nearby streets, attracting curious or even some slightly frightened passersby. Scores of bare-chested men, swirling their shirts over their heads, were chanting ?Iraq! Iraq! Iraq...
...Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Carmack, their programming ringer, was a 23-year-old who had spent a year in juvie and completed exactly two semesters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Carmack is an odd duck: blond, skinny, with a fixed, unblinking gaze and a curious vocal tic--his sentences often end with an involuntary noise that sounds something like Mn! Despite his otherworldly demeanor, he is artlessly charming, although he does not make anything resembling small talk. It's not because he's too busy or aloof; you get the impression he doesn't make...
...cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail." The heroine is his mother - spunky, intelligent and curious about all things Chinese. Dad, a civilian employee of the navy, wants to go home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo is artfully shy of detail about what comes...
...order to find the most intellectually curious students, representatives of Summerbridge visit every fifth-grade classroom in Cambridge public schools each year in a recruitment effort, said development intern Adam G. Zolesk...