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Even surfboards have gone girly. Kristina Marquez sells boards decorated with glitter, hibiscus cloth cutouts and other decorations for $500 and up at her Santa Cruz store, Paradise Surf Shop. Five years ago, Paradise was the only surf-gear store catering to women. Now other local shops devote large sections to women, a trend being replicated on the East Coast as well...
...hostel has free gear for fishing and clam digging. Its motto is "The view...
...getting a measure requiring airlines to provide more extensive training put into a bill permitting guns in the cockpit, which passed the House last month. A bill that the Senate will consider next month includes similar language, requiring 28 hours of instruction and demanding that flight attendants get communications gear that could be used to alert the pilots from anywhere in the plane (a cabin-crew member now must go to one end of the plane or the other to use an internal phone). And on Sept. 5, flight attendants will converge on Capitol Hill to make their plea...
Apart from the risk of death, injury and exhaust-caused lung damage, being behind the wheel in many parts of the E.U. is a hazard to mental health. The frustration caused by sitting with the engine in neutral or first gear in a flashy metal box built to travel up to 200 km/h certainly contributes to road rage, the syndrome whereby Mr. Nice jumps out of his car as Mr. Nuts. The white paper calculates that each day 7,500 km of E.U. roads are like arteries clogged by cholesterol, at best sluggish, at worst blocked to standstill. Over...
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