Boxing Day's football schedule has been hit by the weather as heavy rain from Storm Eva in the north of England and in Scotland caused a raft of postponements.
Slackened rules on big hitting caused a raft of injuries, not least in the opening scramble which had replaced the mundane coin toss: two opposing players ran from 20 yards towards a ball waiting in the centre and the one to grab it secured possession for their team.
Contaminated drinking water, either piped down from a lower part of the glacier or trucked in from polluted local lakes, causes a raft of intestinal and other problems, but nothing, apparently, like the public-health catastrophe that warmer weather would wreak.
Abolishing Myo1c function by RNA interference or overexpressing a dominant-negative mutant induced a collapse of raft-enriched recycling tubules and lipid rafts accumulated in the recycling compartment causing a dramatic loss of raft markers from the cell surface.
Meanwhile, the killings have raised a raft of nettlesome questions.
He would also do away with a raft of regulations.
A decades-old peacekeeping operation may be threatened thanks to a raft of violence caused by Islamic State-linked groups in the Sinai Peninsula.
Babies and youngsters slept, crawled or cried while their parents listened to dozens of speakers endorse a raft of causes, from ending the death penalty to granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.
Under the umbrella title Mobilization for Global Justice, organizers are promising that thousands of protesters will come to Washington intent on a raft of causes with global economic implications, from famine to deforestation, political corruption to global warming.
Leaderless, multinational and known by the ubiquitous, sly Guy Fawkes mask, Anonymous is fueled by a raft of causes, from repression in Tunisia to animal rights in Tennessee to a defense of the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks.
But the hotel is funnier and more engaging than the forest, and introducing a raft of undeveloped new characters causes a loss of focus.
