Background
Sherwood, Ben was born on February 12, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Richard and Dorothy Sherwood.
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Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to your life? How can birthdays be hazardous to your health? THE SURVIVORS CLUB Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do some people bound back and others give up? How can I become the kind of person who survives and thrives? The fascinating, hopeful answers to these questions are found in THE SURVIVORS CLUB. In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, this book reveals the hidden side of survival by combining astonishing true stories, gripping scientific research, and the author's adventures inside the U.S. military's elite survival schools and the government's airplane crash evacuation course. With THE SURVIVORS CLUB, you can also discover your own Survivor IQ through a powerful Internet-based test called the Survivor Profiler. Developed exclusively for this book, the test analyzes your personality and generates a customized report on your top survivor strengths. There is no escaping life's inevitable struggles. But THE SURVIVORS CLUB can give you an edge when adversity strikes.
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This is a story of the greatest love, ever. An outlandish claim, outrageous perhaps, but trust me-- And so begin the enchanting, unforgettable tale of J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world's longest continuous kiss, 30 hours and 45 minutes. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel, 172 feet and 4 inches. He has measured the farthest flight of a champagne cork from an untreated, unheated bottle 177 feet 9 inches. He has tasted the world's largest menu item, whole-roasted Bedouin camel. But in all his adventure from Australia to Zanzibar, J.J. has never witnessed great love until he comes upon a tiny windswept town in the heartland of America, where folks still talk about family, faith, and crops. Here, where he last expects it, J.J. discovers a world record attempt like no other: Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman. In this vast landscape of cornfields and lightning storms, J.J. is doubly astounded to be struck by love from the same woman, Willa Wyatt of the honey eyes and wild blond hair. It is a feeling beyond measure, throwing J.J.'s carefully ordered world upside down, proving that hears, like world records, can be broken, and the greatest wonders in life can not be qualified. Richly romantic, whimsical, and uplifting, The Man Who Ate the 747 is a flight of fancy from start to finish. It stretches imagination, bends physics and biology, but believe it just a little and you may find yourself reaching for your own records, the kind that really count. Written with tenderness, originality, and insight, filled with old-fashioned warmth and newfangled humor, it is an extraordinary novel, a found treasure that marks the emergence of a major storytelling tale. From the Hardcover edition.
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Sherwood, Ben was born on February 12, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Richard and Dorothy Sherwood.
Bachelor of Arts in American Government and History, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986. Master of Arts in History and Development Economics, Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1989.
Intern KCET Public television, Los Angeles, 1981, Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, 1982, Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News with Dan Rather, New York City, 1983. Reporter The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, Los Angeles Times Paris bureau. Investigative associate producer, then producer ABC PrimeTime Live, 1989—1993.
Senior broadcast producer NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, 1997—2001. Executive producer ABC News Good Morning America, 2004—2006. Founder, blogger www.TheSurvivorsClub.org, since 2009.
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Member advisory board Center Public Integrity, Washington. Board directors City Year, Los Angeles. Member of Council Foreign Relations.
Married Karen Kehela Sherwood. Children: William Richard, Charles Edmund.