Word: kayaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power plant head up snow-covered Mount Useful in pairs, competing to be first to reach a cabin at the top. The boss cheats, the employees just want free sandwiches, and an avalanche sabotages the whole thing. In the real world, climbing a mountain or learning to handle a kayak with someone you've barely met or, even worse, someone you see at the office every day can be just as lame. Toss in the fear of tackling physically challenging tasks and the potentially corny kum-bay-ya-ness of it all, and you've got the makings...
...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...
...Wheeler decided to use the story of the great auk to dramatize what was happening. A former U.S. Navy deep-sea diver and a veteran kayaker, he set out on a solo 1,500-mile kayak trip from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay, Mass., following the seasonal migration route of the great auk--as much a feat for a man with a paddle as for a bird that could not fly. He hoped the attention the perilous journey would receive would send a clear message: "What we did to the auk, we are now doing to other species...
...visible physical malady, and you don't know why. So what do you do? Make something up. When Kennedy appeared in public with a soft cast early last month, each tabloid came up with a different explanation. The Star reported that he had fractured a bone while paddling his kayak on the Hudson River. The National Enquirer made the highly dubious claim that John-John broke his bone by pounding on his desk in an argument with a staff member at George. The Globe made a bold ratings grab by saying it was most likely he'd had a Moonlighting...
...four-year teepee-camp program is being funded by an $803,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its Healthy Nations program to reduce the damage caused by substance abuse among Native Americans. The foundation is sponsoring 12 other similar programs, including an Inupiat kayak expedition near Nome, Alaska, and an Apache multimedia campaign against alcohol and drugs in the White Mountains of Arizona...