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...increasing popularity has in turn drawn younger girls from the malls to the beach. Once they get there, a boom in surf schools makes learning to surf as common as enrolling in a yoga class. No longer content to sit on the sand and watch the guys feel the ocean beneath their feet, an estimated half a million women in the U.S. are taking up the sport (twice as many as in 1996), along with the freewheeling way of life it symbolizes. "Most people get hooked straightaway to the rush of standing up and getting pulled along by the waves...
...guys are going to have to learn to share the ocean. On the pro scene, 100 women are competing, twice as many as five years ago (800 men compete professionally). The women's prize money for each of the six competitions in the World Championship Tour (W.C.T.)--which is host to events on beaches in Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Portugal, France and Hawaii--has doubled, although at $60,000, it's hardly a treasure...
Clearly, surfing has transcended fashion for many women, and the number of participants seems poised to continue to grow rapidly. The veteran women surfers aren't all that surprised. They understand the irresistible magic of being in the ocean and playing with this awesome force of nature. "You dance on water," explains Kennelly. "It is this impossible thing that is made possible...
Sources for charts Population: U.N. Population division ("Northern America" consists primarily of the U.S. and Canada. Central American countries are included in "Latin America, Caribbean"); State of the World 2002, Worldwatch Institute; climate; J. Hansen et al., Goddard Institute of Space Studies, "Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index in .01C" Worldwatch Publication: Vital Signs 2002; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001; International Energy Agency; Energy Information Administration; food: Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N. (FAO); water: UNEP Global Environment Outlook 3, 2002; U.N. Population Division, 2000; biodiversity: Forest Resource Assessment 2000, FAO; IUCN/World Conservation Union; Orangutan Foundation International
...Yann Martel's inspired novel Life of Pi is at its core a record of survival?and quite a record it is. Martel's protagonist, a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, not only endures 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but does so while sharing a lifeboat with a 200-kilogram tiger, which regards his shipmate as a tasty sea ration. More than mere physical endurance, however, Life of Pi is concerned with the difficult perseverance of the human spirit. The tiger is a threat to Pi's body, but then becomes...