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Never heard of kiteboarding? Don't worry-20 years ago, people said the same thing about snowboarding. But 150 kiteboard riders and thousands of spectators descended last month on the town of Cabarete on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to participate in the Bestkiteboarding.com Cabarete World...
...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Never heard of kite-boarding? Don't worry - 20 years ago, people said the same thing about snowboarding. But 150 kiteboard riders and thousands of spectators descended in June on the town of Cabarete on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to participate in the Bestkiteboarding.com Cabarete World Cup 2004. It's one of the most popular events on the Professional Kiteboard Riders Association World Cup Tour. Yep, there's a kiteboarding circuit now. The pastime - in which riders on small boards are propelled by large kites...
...well-worn paths. Still, in a land as vast as Australia, there's more reason for joy than despair. Its myth-rich Aboriginal culture offers enlightenment if we care to engage with it; the seemingly barren interior can inspire awe when we visit the thriving land away from the coast. The wonder of discovery is there in simple things and grand: in quiet lives of contemplation and, if you can picture it, the instant a cosmic fireball hits the Earth. In the uncompromising intensity of professionals at work and in that heart-stopping moment when a raft races into...
...other part of Australia's frontier is as closely watched by authorities as the Torres Strait, a shallow sea spanning the 150 km from the tip of Cape York to the coast of Papua New Guinea and flanked by the Coral Sea to the east and the Arafura Sea to the west. Scattered across the Strait like stepping stones are 138 islands, only 17 of which are inhabited. This region, many of whose 8,000 Australian residents follow traditional indigenous lifestyles, seems a tranquil tropical idyll. But for professional border-watchers - officials of the Australian Customs Service, Federal Police, Quarantine...
...SETUP The year is 2021. An ultra-high-tech multinational battle fleet (led by the U.S.S. Hillary Clinton, a George Bush--class supercarrier) is cruising off the coast of Indonesia, when suddenly a nearby high-energy physics experiment has a whoopsie, and the year isn't 2021 anymore. It's 1942, shortly before the Battle of Midway. So much for history as we know it. Birmingham could have just left this story as one big battle scene--he describes military hardware with an exuberance and virtuosity that's positively Clancyesque--but he also shows a surprisingly tender touch with...