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...their vacations quiet and their luxury discreet, part of an island in the South China Sea can be rented by the week. Boayan Islet, just off Palawan Island, comes with a staff of six and a speedboat. Home is a palatial wooden bungalow on stilts, the playground a private lagoon, and there are any number of pristine snorkeling holes waiting to be discovered. And the cost? Less than the price of a five-star hotel, say the owners. Check out your very own fantasy isle at chinaseaisland.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...found the next best thing?a miniature hump-backed lump of igneous rock barely 800 m long and about 400 m wide just off Kalipur Beach, 20 km to the south of Diglipur. It had no name, but it did have a beach, a lagoon and even a patch of forest?we immediately dubbed it Turtle Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise, for Two Dollars a Week | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...between the football field and the Booker Prize was left largely undisclosed. She curtailed her story at the publication of her first novel, and finished her speech without instructions, only a warning and a smirk: “Beware…it’s a daunting, shark-filled lagoon out there.” Margaret Atwood knows the end of the story, but she’s not telling...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Margaret Atwood's Wilderness Tips | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

Prospective writers of today face a “daunting, shark-filled lagoon,” Canadian author Margaret Atwood told an audience of more than 600 in Cambridge yesterday...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Author Atwood Discusses Writing | 11/20/2001 | See Source »

...DICK, left, as singer Christina Aguilera's "cousin Daphne") and a monster truck rally. (P. Diddy arrived on an 18-wheeler.) And those were some of the more dignified moments at the MTV Video Music Awards, a spectacle that started low and slithered downhill from there, landing in a lagoon of cheese, with BRITNEY SPEARS' joyless gyrations to her new single Slave 4 U. (She didn't like her boa, it seems.) The most curious aspect was the shameless shilling. Presenters like MACY GRAY, right, Busta Rhymes, Shakira and others were more interested in the "Song of Myself," relentlessly hawking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 17, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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