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"I feel that there's a fine line between being an individualist and a glutton," says Amanda Griscom about her article on the EPA Clean Air Act (Breathless/' page 56]. "We're moving dangerously away from basic concepts of communalism that are prescribed by our natural environment." Am, anda, often adorned wit assistant editor at Feed Magazine (www.feedmag.com). Her work has also appeared in Time Out and Wired Magazine News Service. "Good humor makes for good travel companions and is the best way to transcend cultural bound aries," says Brian Monni n, who ran with 50 Lakota Indians on the five-day, SOO-mile Sacred Hoop Run (Sacred Hoop 500," page 46J around the Black Hills of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. "Even though we share the same country, there's 200 years of history and different cultures standing between us. But when you spend ten hours a day 'run ning together you begin to loosen up." During the course of the traditional run he was given a variety of Lakota names, mostly vulgar, before David Brings Plenty, Sr, the race's Chairman, final ly settled on Mni Con Ju Wicasa, which is Lakota for "Rain Man." Brian lives in Seattle and is Producer and Director of Mama Planet, an online environmental journal on the Microsoft Network (mamaplanet.msn.com). or index finger surfin.s a "giant toothbrush" [ urnlng Nylon," page �2J. yet he finds in Britain's dry-slope snowboarding scene an independent-minded culture of resis Chris Campion has little inclination to risk life and limb "B . :i�h�(Nrlt� � � QJ IT (Q) � � tance similar in attitude to the country's world-conquering dance culture that he covers for music magazines such as Urb, Style & The Family, Tunes and Echoes, the weekly London based black-music paper for which he writes and designs the urban music supplement, "Code Of The Streets." When not writing about Britain's music scene, he's off' producing T-shirts Jr i Despite what he calls "concerted efforts not to be provocative," Contributing Editor QouS Fine (Oracie in W ....I W w U Z w Q:; Q:; w I- Boonles, page 64] is constant ly adding to the list of countries to which he is officially banned. He tends to report from places such as Tajikistan, Laos, Rwanda and Surinam before flee ing amid gunfire and reporting for the likes of the Washington Post, the Discovery Channel Online and National Public Radio. His first novel, Sugar Bowl Game, is being published in 1998 (Watershed Publishing). and he is direct ing Migration, an independent feature film he also wrote. His work can be viewed at www.well.com/userlfine. Martin DUQ.... Adventure �ace Will Be Televised, page 60]. While competitors jumared up the slick granite cliffs of 600-foot-high Blencoe Falls he hopped rock to rock ard riske� his life for an .inside ,�ook at the Eco-Challenge ["The across the top. After unclipping his harness from the handline, he fell. "If I wasn't able to grab the line, I would have gone over the falls," says Martin. Was he scared? "I was mad." He is the author of Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth, a first-person narrative on adven ture racing due out in December from McGraw-HilI. A two-time competitor in the Raid Gauloises, his writing on adventure racing and other sports has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Outside and GQ. Collecting information about the Seven Summits isn' s easy as it seems. When interviewing Steven Koch L'Seven Peaks of Wisdom," page 32], acrophobic writer Jeff Rotter was constantly confronted by flatfoot intru- sions. "My interviews with Koch were interrupted several times by his radar detector going off in his car," say' near me-let's talk a little later.''' Rotter-a man who loves scallops, plants and pants-works for a massive software corporation in midtown Manhattan while his band, Thank You Super, prepares for a 30-day European tour this spring. How does it feel to write an article that might ban you from visiting a country you love (The Lady and the SLORC," page 40]7 That's one of the questions San Francisco-based journalist Sara Hare faced as she wrote about the travails of travel to Burma. "Whatever hap pens, it will be worth it. Now I've got Burma emblazoned on my soul," says Sara. Although she trav els six months a year on assignment for magazines published in Italy, Germany and the US, Burma is her recent fave, ahead by at least 10,000 temples.