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...newer boards are often called "composites," because unlike old PU boards, they are crafted from foams of varying densities as well as fiberglass, resins, carbon fibers and wood in various configurations, some devised with sophisticated computer modeling. "Once surfers try 'em, it's an easy sell," says Jason Weatherley of Salomon. The trick is getting those old-school riders on board. [This article contains a diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
Averaging 6 ft. 2 in., shortboards increasingly feature new core materials, fabrics and resins borrowed from other industries to allow riders more flex, speed and maneuverability. Fiberglass and polyester...
...DIED. Luis Jimenez, 65, who with his towering fiberglass sculptures of illegal immigrants, fiesta dancers and ruddy cowboys became one of the most important artists to depict Latino culture; after a piece of a 10-m-tall sculpture he was crafting for Denver International Airport fell as it was being transported, crushing him; in Hondo, New Mexico. The Chicano artist celebrated working life in energetic pieces like Man on Fire?based on the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc, executed by Spanish colonists for his resistance?which is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum...
DIED. Luis Jimenez, 65, who with his towering fiberglass sculptures of illegal immigrants, fiesta dancers and ruddy cowboys became one of the most important artists to depict Latino culture; after a piece of a 32-ft.-tall sculpture he was crafting for Denver International Airport fell as it was being transported, crushing him; in Hondo, N.M. The Chicano artist celebrated working life in energetic pieces like Man on Fire--based on the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc, executed by Spanish colonists for his resistance--which is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum...
...kidnapped at least eight more foreign oil workers and attacked several oil installations, killing some 14 Nigerian soldiers posted to guard them. In the past month, militants have also exploded two car bombs as "warnings" of coming chaos. When I set off with three guides in a cigar-shaped fiberglass boat into the swamps last month, a Nigerian naval officer aboard a warship in the port city of Warri warned me not to go on. "Even we don't go there," he said, motioning along the Warri River. Then he slowly drew a finger across his throat...