Word: lifeguard
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...that ran on the cover of the Advocate’s Winter 2001 “Men Issue,” in which he posed shirtless on the beach looking slyly at the camera. This innocent moment—which looked like his three summers as a lifeguard at a country club—did not prepare him for the pictures in the middle of the magazine. Inside ran a series of nude photographs of another man, whose face was not pictured...
...with the brazen declaration of summer—from the bikini wax horror stories and get-thin-for-summer diets to beach bargains and lifeguard love stories—comes what I think is the oddest parallel to my own skin-tone woes: the self-tan. There I was pooh-poohing the cosmetics industry for not caring enough about making or marketing the products I need to attain flawless, cover-girl appeal and the next thing I know, every model in every ad is rubbing her way to darker, warmer skin...
...they grapple with these questions, politicians and scientists are often accused of playing God. On issues this morally and scientifically mysterious, Bush knew, humility was the better part of wisdom. He avoided playing national priest (relying purely on Scripture) or capitalist tool (letting the markets decide). Instead, he played lifeguard: These are dangerous waters, he warned. Mind where you swim when you go looking for treasure...
...what people thought were shark attacks--began to come in from all around the U.S. On July 15 a surfer was apparently bitten on the leg a few miles from the site of Jessie's attack. The next day another surfer was attacked off San Diego. Then a lifeguard on Long Island, N.Y., was bitten by what some thought was a thresher shark. Last Wednesday a 12-ft. tiger shark chased spear fishers in Hawaii. News crews stood on the sand to interview experts, who declared over and over that sharks killed only 10 people worldwide...
...says Klein, "the arm was too far in the mouth to remove it," particularly with the shark still in violent convulsion. He asked the crowd to step back and shot the shark four times in the head. Then he opened its mouth with the baton, while Tony Thomas, a lifeguard and volunteer firefighter, his own arm wrapped in a towel for protection, reached in with hemostats and extracted the limb. He covered it with a towel and packed it in ice to be rushed to a waiting ambulance...