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...pastime-in which riders on small boards are propelled by large kites in order to glide over or jump atop bodies of water (and sometimes on sand, grass or snow)-is the extreme sport of the moment. "Four years ago, kiteboarding was just for a few determined and durable extreme athletes because the equipment was unevolved and you had to teach yourself," says Trip Forman, co-owner of Real Kiteboarding in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a kiteboarding school. "But now there's good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros." Forman's outfit boasts 18 full-time...
...sport has risks. According to Rick Iossi, director of the Florida Kite Surfing Association, which promotes safety awareness and maintains an accident database, there have been 21 deaths related to kiteboarding since 2000. "The vast majority of accidents are avoidable if you know what you are doing," says Iossi, who collided with trees and suffered a brain hemorrhage while kiteboarding in unstable weather three years ago. He is now fine and still kiteboards. "People need to take plenty of lessons and, as in any other sport, be cautious...
...Despite the perils, however, the sport can be relaxing. Says Laura Meyers, 39, a sponsored kiteboarder from Miami who competes against women half her age: "You can ride leisurely or make it as extreme as you want...
...familiar refrain these days. Counterfeit shopping has become something of a sport, much to the chagrin of luxury-goods manufacturers. Fake designer bags are everywhere, it seems--so easy to buy that in some circles it's almost uncool to carry the real thing. Once limited to grimy stalls on New York's Canal Street, counterfeit luxury goods can be found online and in malls, and have even turned up at discount chains such as Daffy's, based in Secaucus, N.J. Among the ladies-who-lunch crowd, purse parties, where guests buy inexpensive fakes in private homes while they...
...insanity. His schizophrenic brother lives behind locked doors in a private mental institution. His best friend, a lawyer, asks him to lie under oath. His mother Izzy, a manipulative, acidic and passive-aggressive divorce played by Blythe Danner, occupies the apartment above Huff's garage and makes a sport of tormenting his wife. Then there are the patients. One of them, Monique, is driven to a near homicidal rage by her boyfriend's incessant knuckle cracking--but it has never dawned on her to ask him to stop. So the question is this: What's with the exclamation point...