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...eyes and a proud Latin gait, bound him to that inner tube even as she fought to stay alive. And even a coroner's description of how Elian's tube trailed behind it the body of 61-year-old Merida Barrios, who had been strangled by one of the raft ropes, and floated, like bait, yards from Elian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Battle For A Little Boy | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...Raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...choked, dreamscapey San Francisco, refugees from the author's novels Idoru and Virtual Light navigate the blurry boundary between terrestrial reality and cyberspace, meeting a new raft of 21st century weirdos as an ill-defined societal apocalypse nears. The ferociously talented Gibson (Neuromancer) delivers his signature melange of techno-pop splendor and postindustrial squalor, but this time his teasing, multicharacter narrative leads only to an irritating head scratcher of a conclusion. Genre freaks: this appears to complete the trilogy. Connoisseurs: just reread Neal Stephenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Tomorrow's Parties | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...music (a combination of techno and opera), each show is an apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Along with a raft of other similar charges, prosecutors say Meinert illegally financed a spring break trip to Europe by using a friend's social security number to obtain a loan...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Imposter Posing as Student Fools Campus Groups | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

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