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Freetown is burning. The sky is barely visible through the gray clouds of smoke curling up from the eastern side of the city. The occasional finger of white African sunlight that pokes through the haze falls on piles of dead bodies. The soft sands of Lumley beach, which sits on the north edge of town, are blanketed with dead soldiers, and the tranquil bay that lies between downtown and the airport is an oily, grisly mess, teeming with floating bodies and body parts...
Over the years, numerous local surfers and skaters have schemed a way to extend the adolescent life-style of cutting school and hitting the beach into a career of cutting work and hitting the beach. "It's a wonderful industry to be in," says Bob Hurley, 43, founder of Billabong USA and Hurley International. "It's kind of like going to high school forever, and then leaving every day to go surfing...
...clothes and accessories dedicated to the "board-sports" life-style are operating in Velcro Valley. They range from Oakley, the $200 million sunglasses-and-footwear firm housed in a futuristic, $47 million hilltop bunker, to smaller fry like Black Flys, Split and Volcom, crowded into Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach industrial parks...
...have a romantic comedy where the boy didn't get the girl," Stoppard explains. "This troubled people, but the whole point was that the experience led him to write the greatest love tragedy of all time, not the greatest love comedy." Instead of that final shot of the beach, he says, "I shouldn't be telling you these things, but in my first go I had a sort of ghostly Manhattan in my mind as she walked off--but that was a ghostly skyscraper...
This year, Dartboard will celebrate the long intersession while skiing in Vermont, rowing in North Carolina or perhaps getting a tan on the sands of Panama Beach. Or, perhaps more likely, Dartboard will discover a new meaning of the word "chillin"' while sitting in an underheated dorm working on a thesis or hunting down a summer job. No matter how it gets spent, though, nothing could be more welcome after ten days of exams than seven days of real vacation...