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...first monster wave ate him up. Taylor Knox, a 26-year-old pro surfer, disappeared into the churning foam off Mexico's Todos Santos islands like a rag doll tossed into a washing machine. Then he got another chance. He spotted a second wave, even bigger than the first, and paddled straight for it. As he reached the crest, Knox smoothly swiveled, stood up on his board and started sliding down a slick expanse of water as steep as a cliff. Somehow he stayed in control, even though he flew 6 or 7 ft. through the air so that...
Todos Santos is famous for big waves, which generally range between 25 and 35 ft. tall. This year, however, because of the storms ushered in by El Nino, the waves at Todos Santos have been epic. The official word isn't in yet, but the wave Knox rode may well have been more than 50 ft. high. If that's the case, Knox should win the K2 Big Wave Challenge, which at the end of this month will award a $50,000 prize to the surfer who caught the biggest wave of the season. And if he wins...
After graduating summa cum laude in English, Updike studied at the Rushkin School of Fine Arts in Oxford, England on a Knox Fellowship...
...lighter side -- if an all-female air force spraying debilitating nerve gas over Fort Knox can be considered lighter -- is Goldfinger (1964). Easily the best of the Bonds, and ahead of its time (sort of) with its man-hating, squadron-leading femme fatale, Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). She was a liberated woman until James tripped her up on that haystack. No Gloria Steinem, but her conversion saved a lot of lives...
...forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange of letters between Sir Arnold Lunn and Father Ronald Knox. Lunn, who invented skiing's slalom, was then an agnostic--he later converted--and Knox a famous Catholic apologist. Most readers will have to take on faith Buckley's assertion that this out-of-print tome has not been fatally "anachronized...