11/16/2008
Acrophobia alert in Canada (Boston Globe)
The new Peak 2 Peak Gondola at Whistler Resort in British Columbia, which zips 2 3/4 miles between adjacent peaks Whistler and Blackcomb in 11 minutes, isn't for the faint of height. It dangles 1,432 feet off the valley floor - that's almost as high as the Empire State Building - and the span between supporting pillars on either side ...
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11/16/2008
Vertigo, City (The New Zealand Herald)
To say that I am not fluent in Mandarin understates the case. After four days in Beijing, I had nailed "hello" but, judging by the way people fell about laughing when I said "thank you", I suspect I was pronouncing it wrongly and saying something like "virtuous carrot".
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11/07/2008
New Bond Girl, Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko, has acrophobia (Unian)
Did you know that Olga Kurylenko, the new Bond Girl introduced in the latest (the 22nd) 007 movie Quantum of Solace, has a mortal fear of heights (acrophobia)?
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11/09/2008
PASS THE WORD (Lancaster Online)
Our readers rock! About 90 people submitted captions for last month's feature photo of a rocking chair in a barn, shot in Ronks by Sunday News photographer Vinny Tennis.We can publish only a portion of those funny lines today; but look for samples — from every contributor who followed our ...
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11/05/2008
Afraid of heights, Bond girl Olga does own stunts (Calcutta News)
Ukrainian model Olga Kurylenko, who stars as the new Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig in 'Quantum of Solace', is scared of heights, but she says she did herself proud by overcoming her fear and doing her own stunts.
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11/05/2008
Afraid of heights, Bond girl Olga does own stunts (Deccan Herald)
Olga Kurylenko, who stars as the new Bond girl in Quantum of Solace, is scared of heights, but she says she did herself proud by overcoming her fear and doing her own stunts.
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11/05/2008
Afraid of heights, Bond girl Olga does own stunts (New Kerala)
By Robin Bansal, New Delhi, Nov 5 : Ukrainian model Olga Kurylenko, who stars as the new Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig in 'Quantum of Solace', is scared of heights, but she says she did herself proud by overcoming her fear and doing her own stunts.
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11/02/2008
How I cured my fear of spiders but not of light bulbs ... with a little help from the Flumps! (Daily Mail)
TV presenter SHARON MARSHALL gives hope to others who struggle with phobias after confronting her own with the Fear Master.
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10/31/2008
Summer Rayne Oakes: Journey to the Center of a Windmill (HuffingtonPost)
In between doing some Planet Green events I've been filming for G Word, one of Discovery's new shows. Here's a recap on one of my...
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10/24/2008
Terrifying mind-set (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Few filmmakers in history messed with the mind like Alfred Hitchcock did. Id, ego, superego – they were all fair game for the director who famously opined: “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” Freud would have loved Hitchcock, or feared him. And wouldn't a course called “Hitchcock 101” make a terrifyingly perfect elective in some university's psychology (or abnormal psychology) ...
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