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A much-used photograph in the British press was of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams with a camera to his eye, snapping the media at the opening ceremony for the new executive.
The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)
Thanks to first-rate sound equipment, though, we hear everything they hear--especially a snapping of branches in the dark outside their tent that escalates into an omnidirectional clatter.
Well, Today's Papers couldn't take it any more and quickly found out some further interesting facts: The boy was injured when, after his father put him on the back of a motorcycle, the baby blanket that the father placed around his shoulders became entwined with the cycle's drive shaft, breaking the boy's neck and snapping his spinal cord.
The river traffic, meanwhile, keeps amateur photographers snapping in all directions at flat-bottomed tubs, hand-poled bamboo rafts, sampans, and towboats.