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...runway for the likes of Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent and starting her own label. Postfashion, the gracious celebrity used her fame and her horrific experience as a 9-year-old to write a book and speak out against female genital mutilation. Katoucha, who apparently fell from the houseboat she owned in Paris, had been missing since January. Her body was found in the Seine...
...Zealand The Abel Tasman Coastal Walk is a 30-mile, three- to five-day hike through native forests and along golden beaches. Accommodation options include eight basic huts scattered along the trail, a houseboat dorm anchored in the turquoise bay and the luxe eco-friendly Awaroa Lodge, inset...
...young protagonist of The Coffin on the Hill climbs aboard a houseboat on the Yangtze River (Welch was born in Shanghai, where his father was a partner in a firm that managed rubber plantations): "Leaning forward and putting out my tongue I licked the brass rim of one of the portholes, in order to realize the ship with all my senses. Then I curled up in a corner of the fitted seat and felt like a mole, or some other perfectly happy blind animal, burrowing deeper and deeper, coming at last to its true home...
...helmet out of a 5-gal. paint can and nearly drowned trying it out. After he arrived in Key West in 1970 and began salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove a $600 used Mercury. He has made millions from finds smaller than the Atocha, some of them wrecks of its sister ship, but he has spent millions looking for the Atocha. Now he wears an estimated $12,000 worth of gold around his neck, including a Spanish doubloon...
Today the University squad, as the guests of J. P. Morgan on his yacht Corsair, journeyed almost as far as Newport. Harry Paine Whitney's houseboat, Captiva, took the Yale squad for a sail this afternoon. No rowing was done in either camp today...