Word: calif
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Among the most controversial claims in Stiffed is Faludi's defense of the Spur Posse, a group of male high school students in the early 1990s who engaged in a sex-for-points contest that rocked their Lakewood, Calif., community and received national media attention...
Mission Viejo, Calif., has a lofty level of Olympic consciousness. Greg Louganis used to work out at the local multipool swimming complex. The bicycle races of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics ran on its roads. So acute is Mission Viejo's awareness of sports that keeping athletic talent a secret is impossible. Dale Herring, 53, went out for his usual walk and jog with his wife Kathryn one morning a few years ago; on impulse, he decided to sprint around a curve, something he had not done in 30 years. Inevitably, he was spotted. The observer, a collegiate coach, urged...
Freshley, who lives in La Jolla, Calif., is an apostle of swimming. "Before 50, swimming is optional," he says. "After 50, it's mandatory. Guys' egos force them to play basketball at 55 as they did at 20, and they damage their knees." A 70-year-old swimmer looks 50, he maintains, but a 70-year-old runner looks 90. Swimming lowers cholesterol and reduces arthritis pain, he says, and it has strengthened his immune system to the point that he gets barely one cold a year. He recognizes, however, that not everyone will share his devotion. "Nobody...
...most anticipated in history." Diablo, their first game, was among the best selling ever, moving a couple million CD-ROMs, making the game's co-creators, brothers Erich Schaefer, 34, and Max Schaefer, 32, multimillionaires. But what is striking about walking into the Blizzard North building in Menlo Park, Calif., is not the casualness of the offices, the cubicles strewn with toys or the 8-ft. red-and-black Diablo mannequin next to the receptionist--that's standard work-is-play, tech-firm vibe. Instead, what makes me stop and wonder is the feeling that I am revisiting my childhood...
...Like so many members of Gen X, I too could have participated in the Silicon Valley orgy of wealth creation. Because at Blizzard North, Erich and Max have somehow turned what used to be a clique of adolescent boys--our rabble of pimply, geeked-out teenagers in Pacific Palisades, Calif.--into a highly profitable, 100-employee, new-economy juggernaut that is currently the focal point of millions of young males eagerly awaiting the Christmas launch of Diablo...