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Some boards selectively accentuate rocker, the bottom curve from nose to tail. More rocker means more mobility, less speed; less rocker lets you rocket down a wave's face...
Introduced to make polyurethane foam boards more rigid, the stringer (usually made of wood) has migrated to other parts of the board and to other materials. Full or tapered, sharp or rounded, rails (where the deck meets the bottom) are also taking a turn--for a better one on waves...
...show biz or comedy patter. Moreover, stage juggling is about making tricks look difficult, and the Galchenkos' natural gracefulness makes everything look easy. "We're probably the top team in the world, ever, technically, as far as juggling goes," Vova says and adds ruefully: "But we're probably the bottom team when it comes to presenting...
...never in a situation where one wins and the other loses, thinking that the next time the second will lose and the first one will win, because this doesn't work. And making sure that everything we do or change is only for the bottom line...
Friction between patients and their nurses may also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places...