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...Love, you say that surfers are like addicts and that they use waves for a fix. Can you explain? Well, for me, I can never get enough. I mean, I do get satisfied. I do get my fill in a day, I get tired and want to go home and sleep or eat, but the next day if the waves are happening, I'm out there again. It's not something that necessarily gets old. You push yourself to a certain limit and once you've done something new you've want to keep going, you want to do something...
...competitive life in 1998 and retired but then you ultimately returned. Why did you feel burned out? I'd been doing the same thing every year for a number of years. I was probably - well, not even probably - I was definitely tired of it in the end. I mean, for surfing, our year is not like a 4- or 6-month thing, it's basically a 10-plus-month tour, so that is tiring. You go to the same places each year, surf the same spots, see the same guys mostly. It just got to a level of monotony...
...negatives. Friends like New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter are counseling her not to take the job. They say she would be giving up important work in the Senate, particularly on the health-care-reform cause that is her passion. Others warn that her job description at Foggy Bottom would mean she'd lose her own voice. Against that, enthusiasts for the move point out, Clinton is smart, a fast and thorough study, and tough as nails. And with Obama focused on the economy, she could have a big role in repairing the U.S.'s image overseas. Says an Obama adviser...
...weeks now, the auto manufacturers, led by GM, have been warning that they are on the brink of bankruptcy. And they insist that in the current climate, without billions of dollars from Washington, bankruptcy would mean total liquidation, not the restructuring that many experts argue is the only real way to fix the industry. Given the complex, interdependent system of auto-parts suppliers, analysts warn that the loss of one of the Big Three could take down the entire sector - and with it some 2.5 million U.S. jobs - in a cascade effect...
...possibility that Pyongyang might shut the border, crippling a highly symbolic four-year-old joint industrial complex between North Korean and South Korean companies. Since South Korean laws protect freedom of speech, there's little the government can do to legally stop activists like Choi. That doesn't mean they don't try. "We cannot stop this activity," said one official at the Unification Ministry's public information office. "But we are making efforts." The Ministry would not outline how it has been trying to ground the balloons, but Choi says government officials have visited him at his office, sent...