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...Life, if you're a bacterium or virus, boils down to this: finding a pristine human home to provide for your every need, from food and nutrients to shelter against biological storms. As a microbial drifter, you can literally travel the world, hopping from host to host when the opportunity presents itself or when conditions at your temporary residence start heading south. There's no worry about taking along life's necessities either-viruses in particular are adept at traveling light; incapable of reproducing on their own, they think nothing of co-opting the reproductive machinery of their cellular sponsors...
...almost everyone with some part in the Hispanic immigrant story. There's the boy, spunky Carlito (Adrian Alonso), separated from his parents by the border; the mother, Rosario; a disillusioned recent illegal played by telenovela star Kate del Castillo; Ferrera's second- or third- generation college student; a drifter Carlito meets picking fruit; a security guard with a green card and a shiny truck who courts Rosario; and the list goes on. "It speaks about life on both borders, why people feel the need to come over and what it's like for people while they're here," says Ferrera...
...artist, and a consummate upper-class drifter of romantic bent, De Monfreid died in 1974 at the age of 95. In the first half of his life, he traded coffee, dived for pearls, smuggled arms and trafficked hashish off the coasts of East Africa and southern Arabia. Upon his return to France, he began a second career as a highly prolific author, drawing on his experiences to produce more than 60 works of fiction, biography, history and journalism. He even dabbled in painting and photography...
Aditi Banga '09, a Crimson associate design chair and news editor, is a history and science concentrator in Winthrop House. After she becomes a drifter and sees the world, she’d like to go after the rainbow’s end waiting ‘round the bend...
...long-time fan who now lives in Reykjavik, Iceland. This North Atlantic island has something special that I think you'd appreciate. What are the chances of bringing Continental Drifter here? -Michael Sheehan in Reykjavik, IcelandWell, I actually have been to Reykjavik and Keflavik several times because it's a stop when I fly back and forth-?cause I've flown the Atlantic a lot. Iceland is the natural land bridge across the North Atlantic. I've been to the Hard Rock there, I've been salmon fishing, I've been to the pools. I like...