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...felt like I wasn't getting anywhere," recalls Cabrinha, 42, a veteran surfer from Hawaii. There had already been 10 "horrific wipeouts" that morning. As Cabrinha was gaining speed going down the wave, its breaking lip was closing in fast from behind. People watching from the shore began shouting, "Go, Pete, go!" as he raced ahead of the white water. He hit a few bumps but kept his balance and triumphantly finished his journey. When he reached the calm water outside the reef, his partner Rush Randle told him, wide-eyed, that it was the biggest wave he had ever...
...wave surfing, documented in Riding Giants, a film directed by Stacy Peralta that opened nationwide last week, goes back a half-century. Its pioneer is Greg Noll, a stocky Californian nicknamed the Bull, who, with a small group of friends, began surfing big swells off the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, in the 1950s and '60s, riding waves up to 30 ft. high. But with the boards and techniques available then, it was not possible to go much higher. In the '70s and '80s surfers instead sought to conquer challenges on smaller waves with a range of turning and tube...
...traditional values. Howard lamented a "coarsening of the culture," blaming a decline in civility, voyeuristic media and male aggression. Was this an attack on Latham or the infotainment-footy-industrial complex? Perhaps Howard doesn't get Big Brother. Or just get out enough. Maybe he's trying to shore up the gray vote who cop the brunt of those road-raging, finger-popping P-platers...
...central banks of Japan and China aren't buying American bonds out of charity. They're doing it to shore up the dollar and prevent their own currencies from appreciating; this is making their exports cheaper and more appealing to American consumers. One result is that Japan and China have been running enormous trade surpluses with America. They have then reinvested a chunk of that surplus in U.S. bonds. Trans-Pacific trade is thus starting to look like that theoretical impossibility, a perpetual-motion machine: America pays for Asian goods with borrowed money, then Asia uses the profits from these...
Atkins-friendly, low-carb meals are the bread and butter (so to speak) of most new club restaurants. Ethnic cuisine is catching on too. Typhoon, inside Chicago's Lake Shore Athletic Club, has become such a popular sushi spot that it does great business with both club members and guests who walk in off the street. With a menu that includes healthy versions of such Louisiana favorites as spicy crawfish and Cajun-style gumbo, chef Marc Gilberti serves about 200 diners a day at the Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans, earning $100,000 a month for his club. Like...