Word: rafts
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...stories, to see where my father had fought during the war and to meet my Vietnamese relatives for the first time. My sister came because she had finally accumulated enough frequent flier miles to fly International Business Class. After 15 minutes of smacking mosquitoes, we docked the raft on the river’s muddy outer bank. We could finally begin our trek through the forest to my grandfather’s grave...
...megahit Trading Spaces (where pairs of friends fix up, or ruin, each other's homes), the drama is, Do your friends really know you? Could you live their lives better than they do? And Trading Spaces' success has inspired a raft of shows that are as much about love as about louvers. Take HGTV's Designing for the Sexes, where spouses gamely spar over home projects, Mars-and-Venus style; one husband wants angular stones for the new fireplace because they're more "manly" than curvy river rocks. On Discovery's Surprise by Design, people race against the clock...
...rough game of football at the beginning of the school year. When the faculty outlawed the game because of annual injuries, students held a funeral for the tradition, complete with a coffin for the deceased football and eulogy written partly in Latin. In Adams House, students participated in a raft race on the Charles River. One year, MIT students entered the contest and sped to the finish by hiding an engine under their raft...
...Swiss bank account no longer offers the ironclad protection it used to. Embarrassed by its image as the banker of choice for Third World tyrants and organized criminals, over the past decade Switzerland has introduced a raft of legislation designed to clean up its status as a financial haven, including anti-money-laundering laws that are among the toughest anywhere. The country now routinely cooperates in international criminal cases and has taken major steps after Sept. 11 to help track the financing of terrorism...
...film of a farmers' market, and the tape wound up in Japan. At first, it got little attention. But after intelligence agencies finished studying it they reached a startling conclusion: Pyongyang had lost faith in central planning and was cautiously embracing capitalism. Indeed, this summer, Pyongyang finally announced a raft of market-based economic reforms...