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krazykitkatFrom SMH:
Forget the wit of Indiana Jones, the brawn of Jason Bourne or the endurance of Jack Bauer. In the event of disaster, Americans would prefer to have by their side MacGyver, the ingenious secret agent from the 1980s TV show.
That was one result in a survey released today, in which participants were given a choice among seven fictional heroes for help in an emergency.
The poll, commissioned by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, has a serious purpose: Urging Americans to become better prepared for disasters.
Still, the fact that a television character who triumphed by using everyday objects and scientific principles was the favourite surprised and delighted Don Cooke, the foundation's senior vice president for philanthropy.
"I love MacGyver. You could give him a sock and a piece of string and he could somehow create electricity for the whole city," joked Cooke, an astronomer by training.
"MacGyver," portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson, ran from 1985 to 1992 on ABC. In the survey, 27 per cent of respondents chose the character.
He was followed by Indiana Jones (16 per cent); John McClane from the Die Hard films (14 per cent); James Bond and Jason Bourne (eight per cent each); and Lara Croft of Tomb Raider and Jack Bauer of 24 (seven per cent each).
For the survey, Opinion Research Corp interviewed 1,049 randomly selected US adults by telephone on August 24-27. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Forget the wit of Indiana Jones, the brawn of Jason Bourne or the endurance of Jack Bauer. In the event of disaster, Americans would prefer to have by their side MacGyver, the ingenious secret agent from the 1980s TV show.
That was one result in a survey released today, in which participants were given a choice among seven fictional heroes for help in an emergency.
The poll, commissioned by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, has a serious purpose: Urging Americans to become better prepared for disasters.
Still, the fact that a television character who triumphed by using everyday objects and scientific principles was the favourite surprised and delighted Don Cooke, the foundation's senior vice president for philanthropy.
"I love MacGyver. You could give him a sock and a piece of string and he could somehow create electricity for the whole city," joked Cooke, an astronomer by training.
"MacGyver," portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson, ran from 1985 to 1992 on ABC. In the survey, 27 per cent of respondents chose the character.
He was followed by Indiana Jones (16 per cent); John McClane from the Die Hard films (14 per cent); James Bond and Jason Bourne (eight per cent each); and Lara Croft of Tomb Raider and Jack Bauer of 24 (seven per cent each).
For the survey, Opinion Research Corp interviewed 1,049 randomly selected US adults by telephone on August 24-27. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
