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...forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This is not the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Dreaming | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...there is always a time and place for comic relief—especially in the heat of battle, when you need a little laugh the most. Second, sometimes being a hero can simply come from doing the right thing—although it often involves slaying a fire-breathing dragon as well...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Hanging with Heroes | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...like running and tapping the dragon on the tail and getting away with the flames all around you," says Jeff Clark, a longtime big-wave surfer at Maverick's reef, south of San Francisco. But not everyone escapes the dragon: three big-wave surfers have lost their lives in the past decade. Nevertheless, chasing the big wave has been embraced by the $4.5 billion surfing industry, which uses dramatic photographs to promote the extreme image of the sport to younger consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Surf's Way Up | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

Born in California but raised in Hawaii from age 2, Hamilton, 40, became the acknowledged dragon slayer of surf--a glamorous outsize personality who tested the limits in everything he did, often as camera shutters whirred. A thrill junkie, he surfed the highest waves, bungee jumped from a 700-ft. bridge and broke the European speed record for windsurfing. He even stunt surfed in the opening sequence of the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day. But since childhood Hamilton had been mesmerized by the huge outer reef breaks that appeared after some Pacific winter storms. He regularly surfed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Surf's Way Up | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...Sassy writer and director Kwak Jae Young, and which is set to open on June 3 simultaneously in South Korea, China and Hong Kong?a first for a South Korean film. "Jun is just a phenomenon," says Bill Kong, the Hong Kong film mogul who backed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, and who is co-producing Windstruck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force to Reckon With | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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