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There is, however, a way to avoid all the potential unpleasantness associated with blocking groups. Don't block, just float. It is a simple solution, but it requires a solid constitution on the part of the floater. Very few of us have the courage to assert our independence in that way, to put our faith and our future happiness in the hands of fate. Or is it chance...
Either way, floating is even more frightening than blocking with people you don't really like. At least you have the security of knowing the people you live with. Floating increases your chances exponentially of being assigned to the Quad and of being the one person to complete a group of fifteen. I know someone who's planning to float. It seems he didn't want to offend any of the three groups that invited him to block with them. He's a brave soul. I wish him well...
Just getting into Bosnia is no easy job. The bridges across the Sava River between Croatia and Bosnia have either been destroyed by artillery fire or are shaky. So Army engineers will build two "float" bridges of steel, aluminum and Styrofoam; by Christmas, the spans should be ready for tanks to rumble across them. It will be quite a sight. The bridges will settle six to eight inches under the weight of the tanks, and water will come up above their tracks. It will look as if the tanks are gliding across on top of the currents...
...resemble a college dorm during finals week, with diplomats gathering on the fly to thrash out issues big and small. At the center of it all was Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, who acted as a sort of diplomatic cruise director, dispatching experts to float proposals, stamp out disagreements and buttonhole delegates. "It's like a living, breathing, international diplomatic biosphere," gushed State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns...
...planet. Sockeye salmon choke the mouths of streams, huge brown bears and their cubs feed on cloudberries in the surrounding sun-dappled meadows, while a giant stellar sea eagle rides the thermals on the flanks of one of the volcanoes ringing the lake. Boulders made of porous volcanic rock float at the edge of the lake, seemingly defying gravity. George Schaller, the renowned and famously dour American wildlife biologist, who is visiting the region to study brown bears, looks out over the natural bounty, and a broad smile splits his face. "Bears never had it so good," he says...