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...giant faux hill into the arena of 60,000 spectators. During the cultural portion of the evening, Canadian singer K.D. Lang gave a virtuoso performance (Nelly Furtado, not so much). Another highlight was the stadium's virtual floor, which transformed into a vast ice floe that appeared to break apart and disperse, revealing a virtual ocean across which whales swam in 3-D. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
Banner is wiry, with a goatee and a quiet, self-assured manner. He is ranked just outside the top 10 surfers vying for the $150,000 prize, but having surfed this windy California point break since he was a teenager, Banner figures he knows Mavericks' moods and furies better than anyone. "I've been humbled out there - really blasted - so I try to respect the wave," he says. (See Hawaii's monster waves and the surfers they attract...
Surfers speak of Mavericks with awe and dread. The surf break was discovered in the 1970s, when a few intrepid teenage surfers from Half Moon Bay, led by Jeff Clark, thought it might be possible to ride the giant waves without ending up on the rocks. They survived. "It isn't like Hawaii, where you just ride it straight down to the foam. At Mavericks, you have a long ride - over a minute - and you find yourself dancing with the massive power of nature," says Clark, now 52. For years, Clark tried to spread the word that Mavericks existed...
...just say that I’m hardly the type to deviate from an itinerary, let alone break up a party. I am the family purveyor of passports, the one responsible for keeping track of everyone’s travel documents and annotating our guidebook. Improv has never exactly been my forte; I prefer my days—and particularly, my vacations—to be carefully choreographed. But this evening, entranced by the luminous, romantic glow outside my window, I couldn’t help but disrupt my own rhythm...
...Martha Coakley. I hate to perpetuate the Massachusetts-as-foil-for-Texas stereotype, but I’ll take the risk. So drive down through the winding roads of non-urban Texas, where people of modest means have yards the size of parks, where you’ll break a sweat walking to the next door neighbor’s, and where stray cattle wander through neighborhoods...