Word: surfer
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...there is to the Surge phenomenon? A visit to the drink's website (www.surge.com) suggests otherwise. The site is little more than a Surge fan club which visitors are encouraged to join. Teasers for the happier life that awaits the Surge Club member entice the unwary web surfer. But an all-too-brief browse is enough to show that these Surge-clubbers are not to be envied. To join, one enters, along with the requisite vital statistics, the answers to such "No Fear"-esque questions as "Do you have a life? If so, what do you do with...
...engines match up to the searching power you get by using any two or three of them in conjunction. With the Internet set to hit a staggering 3 billion pages by the next century, it?s only going to become more true: If you want to become a better surfer, you?ve got to do your homework...
Collins, who completed only two years of college, knows as much about meteorology and oceanography as most scientists. But he started out as a surfer who kept on wondering why great waves were so hard to find. In the early '80s, while he and his buddies were roaming the sparsely populated beaches of the Baja Peninsula, Collins began spinning out his first crude forecasts, downloading satellite weather maps in the middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline...
Knox and some two dozen other top surfers showed up at Todos Santos because Collins had predicted a spectacular swell at that particular time at that particular place. They brought with them their longest surfboards, because the longer the board, the faster it cuts through water. A 50-ft. wave, after all, travels at speeds in excess of 20 m.p.h., and anyone who's too slow at the approach risks being smashed. Every so often, in fact, a big-wave surfer dies. This year Jet Ski rescue teams provided backup, and there have been no fatalities...
...company brought the Internet to West Africa, and in 1995 Ghana became the second sub-Saharan nation to have full connectivity. "We're sharing the same information as everyone else in the world," says Quaynor. His most prized client: President Rawlings, an avid Web surfer. Soon, Quaynor hopes, wireless technology will let the phone-short country leap straight into airborne access