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...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, he can thank Sean Collins, the sport's foremost practitioner of the science of surfcasting. Because of Collins and other surfseers, California's big-wave riders aren't wasting time chasing pikers anymore. They...
...weeks ago it wasn't clear if Knox would keep his big-wave record. For as the K2 Challenge entered the home stretch, it seemed possible that another giant swell off Hawaii might produce a new contender for the big prize. But when the contest ended early last week, it was clear that the waves that rolled into Waimea Bay did not come close to the monsters of Todos Santos...
...banks have little interest in competing on price for the basic services that many households prize. Consumers had to pay an average of 15% more a year, or a difference of $27.95, to maintain a regular checking account at a large bank instead of a small one, according to the U.S. Public Interest Group. The gap grew to 100%, or $110, when large banks were compared with credit unions. At the NationsBank branch in Woodstock, Ga., a personal checking account costs $10 a month without a minimum balance, while a similar account at the locally owned Bank of Canton costs...
That's a credo we at TIME share, as demonstrated by another distinction we were proud to attain last week. Three of TIME's Washington journalists--bureau chief Michael Duffy and correspondents Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf--won the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their dogged coverage of campaign-finance abuses. TIME shared the prize, awarded by Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, with the Seattle Times, which published a series on toxic wastes in fertilizers...
...watched the young people walk from Kelly Miller Smith's church to the Woolworth's counter that I was watching the beginning of something historic." Halberstam went on to the New York Times and to Vietnam, where his reporting on the early stages of the war won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964. But over the years, he kept up with John Lewis, Marion Barry, Jim Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash and the other student leaders. In The Children he has produced a multilayered, loose-jointed, sprawling history of their pivotal generation and the role it played. "I can think...