Show f r fMI9 iff cs - I Contestants seek-spoton s Survivor' By Ryan Kim San Francisco Examiner sXNFRANCISCO —They came bearing tales of eating g insects hunting lizards and in caves Others boasted of being natural leaders black belts and mediators Someone ate a live goldfish ' For the more tium 100 people who turned out Wednesday die goal was simple: become a “Survivor" as in the CBS reality show that pits strangers against each other in remote places “I know what it's like to push my body and I know I wouldn’t give up” said Josh personal Rogers a trainer from Los Gatos KPDC-TV“Evening Magazine hosted the tryouts which consisted of filling out an te application and making a Another yititinn tape audition will be held July 20 Contestants can also download an application from div-in- ’s three-minu- will survive http:wwwxbsxom and send in their own audition tape CBS will eventually pick 16 contestants to vie for $1 million while competing against each other for seven weeks somewhere in Australia show The current filmed in the South China Sea has featured contestants on two competing teams eating bugs and rats At the end of each episode members vote off one ? of their own Wednesday the hopefuls strode up like confident warriors There were a few freaks —one group arrived in leather masks and whips — but most of the aspirants spared the the- tries One exception was Devin Kochis a University of Califomia-Bertele- y police officer who passed up a sergeants exam to try out Wednesday Armed with a tiki torch Kochis tore off his shirt and revealed the word “survivor" written across his chest and stomach "Why would I make the best survivor?” asked Kochis with a deadly serious stare "Because I’ve got 'survivor written all over me top-rat- NITHETUBE " ed Minutes later as he stood in front of a camera recording his audition tape Kochis backed up his bravado by swallowing a goldfish "It didn’t taste like anything but it was a big fish” he said later As contestants stared into cameras recording their audi- tions they all insisted they were the epitome of survivors “I’m proud of my ability to survive I'm in great shape for Pat my age said McAlonan a recreational cave diver from San RafaeL As if addressing such a topic would force them to break from the rugged adventurist persona each came with few acknowl- edged die monetary payoff' Even fewer talked of the fame that would accompany an appearance on die popular show Tm in it for the adventure" said Jennifer Downey a 26-environmental scientist year-ol- d from Noe Valley "It sounds so exciting its a opportunity” And to that end the candi- dates said they were prepared to do just about anything to win ‘Til do anything get naked whatever” said Damien Schot 24 of San Bruno "If 1 have to dance around like a chicken I’D doit" Schot said he was not afraid of eating rats either He’s ‘ -- once-in-a-life-ti-me : ' already dined tm crickets snails and meal worms There are li mits of course to what some people will do “If I had to roll around naked with an ugly fat man I don’t think I could do that” said Jonathan Critcher a member of the Coast Guard from Richmond The show also requires a bal- ance of Machiavellian scheming and selfless benevolence Go too far one way and you get booted off die show It’s a tender balance lhat all Wednesday’s contestants believed they had down “I’d be the mediator" said Downey ‘Tm usually in tire middle the team player” But Downey was not sure that would fly on die show “I don’t have s lot of enemies” she said thoughtfully “Maybe that’s too boring and people will kick me off” — Distributed by Howard News Sendee Scripps httpVAvwwahnsxom The Old lyric J Tm Super Mneral Ttai Hatties Cancer and Protects He Heart Awesome antioxidant anti-canc- er mineral selenium sports a most impeccable pedigree: derived right from the earth beneath our feet it nouriahes the animals and grains on which we survive " -- When soils an depleted of their aalmium stores however aa much American farmland is that deficiency shows up in the body suppressing immune ftwetion and robbing safeguards vital td the heart prostate fiver and pancreas So essential is selenium that aa research continues to spotlight its powers it is increasingly included in multivitaminmineral supplements rather than the single form in which it commonly appears Selenium halps activate the Smyrna gluathiona peroxidase a potent five radical battler selenium and vitamin E (and perhaps vitamin A) act synergistically to According to Michael T Murray ND and Joseph E Pixxorno ND authors of the Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine (Prims) selenium boosts the production and activity of all white blood colls The authors cits a sutdy (Biol Trace Elm Rcc 41 1994 103-1showing that folks who used supplements to restore normal seleni4) Repertory Company presents the J chilling suspence thriller i um levels experienced a 118 increase in the ability of lymphocytes to kill tumor cells and an 82J increase in the action of natural killer eella Recently researchers have focused on selenium as a prostata protec- tor suggesting the mineral in combination with sine and vihunin E provides relief from an enlarged prostata gland Selenium may be mors important for men than women particularly aa it appears i' Dark: nailed to your seat and shivering for two i j hours straight!” - in concentration in the testes where it is critical to sperm production according the The Male Herbal (Crossing Press) hr Jamas Green Selenium supplementation alio has been found to protect the liver in pwiple with alenhnHg riniweii "Get Mon Out of Life" Shanari - Jla Health Foods 'r 9 am 752-131- 5 r ' vE' ¥ i jwfs j - J i r 3 - -- 6 pm Mon-S- at |