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...life, this would make him a cad. But it wasn't real life--it was reality TV. The titular hero of ABC's The Bachelor, Buerge, 28, a banker from Springfield, Mo., was the potential trophy husband for the 25 women who signed up to compete for an engagement ring. Each week he gamely narrowed the field, risking chapped lips and a sprained tongue as he squired the women to various restaurants and hot tubs. He finally settled on Helene Eksterowicz, 27, a New Jersey school psychologist. She enthusiastically accepted his marriage proposal before close to 28 million viewers...
...core, The Lord of the Rings isn't a story about frilly shirts and talking frogs; it's a tale about temptation. Frodo isn't a knight in shining armor; he's not even a wizard in a pointy hat. His only claim to fame, his sole superpower, is his uncommon ability to resist the seductive, corrupting temptation of the all-powerful Ring he carries. And as hard as he fights against that temptation, in the end he fails...
...there a message there for contemporary America? As the world's only superpower, we're carrying the Ring on behalf of an entire planet, and our burden is every bit as heavy as Frodo's. Seen in that light, The Lord of the Rings looks like a very grownup story indeed, one that can't be told often enough. FRODO LIVES. --Reported by Mike Billips and Marc Schultz/Atlanta, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles and Andrea Sachs and Heather Won Tesoriero/New York
Part of the "Ring of Fire," the string of volcanoes that encircles the Pacific Ocean, Kamchatka has more than 100 volcanoes, 29 of them active, along with spectacular concentrations of geysers and thermal springs. Nine months a year, snow blankets the peninsula, and only by July does it melt sufficiently to allow for comfortable hiking. Well, let's say relatively comfortable. During our mid-August trek, it rained half the time. Much of the interior is accessible only by helicopter, and tourists who fly into a volcanic site for an afternoon can occasionally be stranded for days...
...spends weekends at home with his wife and two children and his hi-fi cranking out jazz and classical music. He is working on his golf but prefers to take visitors for hikes in the rugged mountains that ring Seoul. He always enjoys a good, steep climb. --By Donald MacIntyre/Seoul