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...first “Survivor,” contestants were so hungry they were forced to eat rats. In “Survivor: Outback,” an exhausted contestant collapsed into a fire, suffering third-degree burns on his hands, and was subsequently disqualified...

Author: By Nicholas F. Josefowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OCS Staff Member Joins 'Survivor' Cast | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...gadgets get you off the couch and on the floor, that's progress. But don't expect a few minutes' exercise to transform your midriff. Alicia Calaway, 33, the personal trainer from Manhattan whose textbook anatomy wowed millions of viewers of Survivor: The Australian Outback, tries to work out 1 1/2 hours a day, five days a week, to maintain her physique. Strangers still ask her to lift her shirt for an ab peep show, she says. "My abs are so popular at this point, I'm thinking about putting out a video to teach people what I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Fabulous? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...harsh remoteness of the outback, and the pioneers' struggle to survive it, are more than a memory in these regions. "The Territory remains an area of adventure," says Les Pilton, proprietor of the Barrow Creek Hotel, who took in the distraught Lees until police arrived three hours later. "It's one of the last frontiers. Part of that is that there is a danger; it's life on the very edge." Distances are almost unimaginable to outsiders: once a week Pilton makes a 570-km round trip just to go to the bank, or for a haircut. Roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Australia | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

With the first pick of the 2002 draft, Houston will select Colby Donaldson, the runner-up from Survivor: The Australian Outback. When Roy Firestone sits down with Donaldson after the draft, Colby will respond, “Thank God I’m a Texan...

Author: By Alexander M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March to the Sea: Predicting the Summer in Sports | 5/23/2001 | See Source »

Reality TV is supposed to coarsen the culture, accelerating America's highly anticipated slide into the Sodom-Gomorrah metropolitan area. Survivor: The Australian Outback proved to be a huge letdown. TINA WESSON, sweet part-time nurse from Tennessee, took the million dollars, but sensitivity flowed from the other finalists too: COLBY DONALDSON (weepy mama's boy), RODGER BINGHAM (weepy schoolteacher), ELISABETH FILARSKI (weepy outback nymph) and KEITH FAMIE (just plain weepy--he broke down on live TV to propose marriage to his girlfriend). "I wanted it to be a kinder game," said Wesson, of the unfortunate lack of backstabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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