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...trying to hide; we know it's you. But Leonardo DiCaprio is such a resourceful actor, and such a magnetic movie presence, that he can persuasively slip into the character of Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler from Zimbabwe who's on the trail of a rock the size of Kilimanjaro. Blood Diamond, the fitfully engrossing drama from director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai), links Danny with the diamond's discoverer, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, ever noble), whose family has been seized in the brutal 1990s Sierra Leone civil war and sent to a refugee camp...
...illustrate their points about melting ice caps, advancing deserts and rising sea levels. They have a particular thing for discouraging compare-and- contrast shots of sights like Iraqi wetlands before and after being drained by Saddam Hussein, the disappearance of the once permanent snow on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and, worst of all, the sinister and apparently unstoppable spread of Las Vegas. So it's true: Céline Dion may be as much of a threat to the planet as global warming...
Corey M. Rennell ’07 will soon boast more than climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and surviving anthrax contracted from a sheep as among his feats. Rennell will be one of six participants in an upcoming reality TV show produced by BBC and The Discovery Channel. Rennell said he will receive $10,000 for participating in the program. Rennell was one of over 100 Americans who applied for the show, according to Louisa M. Griffith-Jones, associate producer for the BBC. The program will feature three American and three British male athletes who will spend...
...time Charles R. Melvoin ’10 comes to Harvard in the fall, he will have eaten dog in Vietnam, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, ridden a camel in India and an ostrich in New Zealand, and gone shark-cage diving in South Africa. Melvoin has already cruised through 19 countries, with three more to go before coming back to the States. But those not lucky enough to take such a jet-set gap year can get in on the fun vicariously through www.whereischarlie.com, a professional-looking website that boasts hundreds of blog posts and photo galleries tracking...
...climbing. This summer, he will complete his final training at a camp in Colorado by going on long hikes carrying weights on his back. Above all, numerous hiking experiences have prepared Osborne for his face-off with Everest. Since 1999, when a friend first convinced him to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, Osborne has climbed mountains in Russia, Alaska, and South America. “I fell in love with it. I like being outdoors, and the technical aspects of the climb,†Osborne said. According to Rennell, the biggest risks of being at such high altitudes are cerebral...