Word: speedboater
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...amenities didn't stop there. Exploring the lake solely from a houseboat is too slow and costly, since the Admiral cruises at just 10 m.p.h. and guzzles 1.5 gal. of gasoline per mile. Most renters add on a separate speedboat, to be towed astern. Practical houseboaters tend to moor the big vessel on a secluded beach and use the faster, more fuel-efficient powerboat for recreation and exploration...
Obsessed with secrecy, Castano has given only a handful of press interviews and refused until recently to have his face photographed. Catching up to him involved two plane flights, a muddy drive through banana plantations and finally a speedboat ride through a thunderstorm across the Gulf of Uruba to the Darien Gap, the mountainous rain forest separating Colombia from Panama. Castano was waiting on the beach, surrounded by 30 hulking paramilitaries hidden among giant ceiba trees...
Some of us may be hypocrites about it too. The other night at sunset in upstate New York, I shot down Seneca Lake at 50 m.p.h. in the bow of my brother-in-law's speedboat--the rumpled surface of the water turned pewter, touched with the sunset's tangerine, and a fine spray stinging my face like...
...balance and low-key: a home in the unglamorous San Fernando Valley, a position as honorary sheriff in his town and a steady income from his TV show, small movie roles and voice-overs. So what happened early last Thursday morning--the day after the comic tested a new speedboat--did not fit the role everyone was used to: Hartman, 49, dead on his bed, in boxers and T shirt, shot twice in the head around 2 a.m.; his wife Brynn Omdahl then killing herself as their kids (Sean, 9, and Birgen, 6) were being taken from the house...
...consider the ritual required of the owners of laptop computers. You must turn on the computer and, all too often, attempt to explain the concept of a C prompt to someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA...