Word: health
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Burnett is known for producing Discovery's grueling wilderness-race show Eco-Challenge (scheduled to move to USA network next year), but he says that while contestants will need to be in good health, Survivor will emphasize mental toughness: a middle-aged woman, he says, could just as likely win as a 25-year-old commando. Indeed, the psychological rigors of twoscore days in the rain forest--and the potential humiliation of being booted by 15 comrades on national TV--are as worrisome as the jungle fauna. The Swedish show Expedition Robinson, from which Survivor is adapted, ran into controversy...
...well over the long haul by owning companies that get big and dominate. The average telecom fund has trounced the average stock fund over the past three, five, 10 and 15 years, according to Lipper Analytical Services. The experience has been similarly fruitful in financial services and health care...
...KNOW?...On Jan. 1, 2000, Britain's health service plans to pass out thousands of extra morning-after pills. Talk about Y2-get-laid...
Every year Global Volunteers, which is based in St. Paul, Minn., sends some 1,500 workers to 21 international projects ranging from health care, business and community improvement to teaching English. Their airfare and the cost of $2,095 each are tax deductible. "It was a wonderful way to experience a culture, vs. going as a tourist," Bettie says. On free afternoons and weekends, they went sightseeing and enjoyed trying the local cuisine. Duane, whom everyone calls Pete, developed a taste for eel with hot pepper. They were invited to cook dinner with a Chinese family in their home...
...wonder why good legislation dies and bad bills survive? One way to find out is to sign up for a week with the Close Up Foundation's $1,160 Congressional Senior Citizen Intern Program in Washington. Participants go to hearings and briefings, take political seminars on topics ranging from health care to international relations, meet with VIPs and lend a hand in the office of one of their Senators or Representatives. Accommodations and most meals are provided by a nearby Marriott. During her stint as an intern in California Democratic Representative Bob Filner's office, Lupita Jimenez, a children...