Word: franciscos
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...consideration than even his top aides suspected. Only Johnson, Cahill and scheduler Alyssa Mastromonaco, who was charged with the under-the-radar logistics, ever really knew which potential running mates Kerry was talking to and when. Mastromonaco arranged Kerry's secret meeting with Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack in San Francisco, but Dick Gephardt blew his cover when reporters caught him sneaking into Kerry's hideaway office in the Capitol. Kerry insisted on seeing the candidates alone, or sometimes with his wife. About once every 10 days or so, Johnson would deliver to Kerry a fat accordion file of background memos...
Even those who are ready to open their wallets are doing so carefully. Michelle Nance, 34, starts work this week in San Francisco as a nurse. She's planning a long-delayed visit to the dentist and the purchase of a new set of tires. But with $40,000 in student loans, "I'm not going to go out and buy a flat-screen TV," she says. Wal-Mart and Target both reported declines in sales growth in June. A drop in consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy, could slow the recovery. "We're watching that...
...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...
...that when the next El Nino warming of the Pacific happens, adding 20% to 30% to the power of storms likely to impact prime surfing sites, surfers will have a chance at 100-ft. swells. Two jet skiers claim they saw 100-ft. waves breaking several miles outside San Francisco's Maverick's reef in 2002, and Hamilton says he has seen 100-ft. waves on the outer reefs between Hawaii's Oahu and Kauai islands. "Using these machines and the little boards, we're going into outer space," says Clark, pioneer of the big swells of Maverick's reef...
Isotope, a San Francisco comic-book shop, netted 107 new voters at a book party and registration drive it held for the debut of Ex Machina, a political comic by California writer Brian K. Vaughan...