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Victorian explorer David Livingstone reported the existence of the Victoria Falls back to the West after discovering them in 1855, and the numbers of tourists streaming to visit the "smoke that thunders" have been increasing ever since. Although some folks still prefer to take in the majesty of this geological wonder from the viewing platform, excitement addicts microlight overhead, whitewater raft below or bungee jump betwixt and between. Last summer, 75% of foreign visitors to the falls participated in adventure sports, according to Zambia's National Heritage Conservation Commission. For some of these thrill seekers, the falls aren't even...
...When Victoria Fuller and her husband, Jonathan Baker, joined the cast of CBS? ?The Amazing Race? they never imagined she would come off as an abused wife and he as a bullying husband on national television. But footage of Baker aggressively yelling and pushing people around, including his wife, made him one of the most vilified characters on reality television - and turned Fuller into TV?s number 1 victim. ?People felt sorry for me, which made be angry,? she says. ?I?m a strong independent woman. ?Even so, Fuller concedes that she and Baker made the mistake of venting their...
...VICTORIA KIM ’07 of Seoul, South Korea and Winthrop House Senior Editor...
...hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father of Australian pottery, then Ipswich, Queensland-based Hanssen Pigott, who practices a form of Buddhism, is its mother superior. "If there was any investment of her spirituality in her work," says Jason Smith, curator of the National Gallery of Victoria's current retrospective, "it would be that calmness, and the hope that people would find that in her work...
...reality participants think the enhancement amounts to a lie, they have little recourse, since they usually sign a thick stack of waivers. On The Amazing Race last year, Jonathan Baker savagely berated his wife Victoria Fuller and alienated fellow contestants and service workers around the globe. But Baker says his villainy was trumped up in the editing room. One episode showed him appearing to be kicked out of a cab after browbeating the driver. Really, Baker says, the driver had an accident and couldn't continue. "I got the worst rap of anyone in reality television ever," Baker says...