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...raft full of camera equipment lost there by an unlucky TV crew, courtesy of a partly submerged log. No problem. By now we're at ease in our rafts; the blue one steered by Pat and dubbed the QE2 for its superior buoyancy and comfort; the Red Devil under Dan's control, a little leakier, a little lower in the water and a lot more daring under the 19-year-old guide's cool hand. Aboard the QE2 your chances of getting through a low-grade rapid without having to kick off a rock or get out and pull...
...dizzied by the beauty around us, and then we reach Rock Island Bend. We've just rescued the Red Devil from being submerged, found the barrel of food that fell off it, and are more than ready for camp. But just before we get there is the Bend, which - since the photo of it by the late Peter Dombrovskis galvanized the anti-dam campaign - has become the river's iconic image, a tall island topped by a grove of trees clinging to its craggy head, a fine spray flaring around it. It is our high point; after that the rapids...
...Texas-based Red Adair Co. capped hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells left burning at the end of the Gulf War. Adair's exploits earned him a daredevil reputation, to which he once remarked: "A daredevil's reckless, and that ain't me. The devil's down in that hole, and I've seen what he can do and I'm not darin...
...leading man, and that?s what he was. He made his Broadway debut in December 1925, when Phyllis was a year old. A few years later, when the movies became the talkies, Kirkland was among the hundreds of stage actors lured west. He had a contract at Fox (?The Devil?s Lottery,? ?Charlie Chan?s Chance? and the first talkie version of ?Black Beauty?), but his two notable films were made at Paramount - where he co-starred with Tallulah Bankhead in George Cukor?s first solo directorial feature, ?Tarnished Lady? - and MGM, where he got third billing (above Robert Young...
...sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered good luck by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("white devil," or foreigner), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious no-go area of vice and violence...