Word: surfer
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It’s hard to imagine that a California, surfer-type stud like Paul Walker (“Into the Blue”) would be a snow guide. Yet that is the premise of the new kid-friendly Disney adventure “Eight Below...
Hillman seems glad to leave Washington's battles behind. An avid surfer who grew up catching waves on the Jersey Shore, he recently passed up a trip with friends to the Bahamas because he had too much work. Besides, there were barracuda in the Bahamian waters, he jokes--"kinda like...
...world's best snowboarders, like Teter, still project the laid-back, surfer-dude spirit that sparked this once-renegade sport (the public address announcer's favorite word at the Mountain Creek Grand Prix: "gnarly"). But make no mistake, these elite athletes are no slackers. America is stoked about the shredders- from the mainstream sponsors whose banners line the pipe- Chevrolet, Sprint, State Farm (crash your board, but not your car)- to the mini-van moms who, kids in tow, watch Teter ?McTwist? to Guns N? Roses...
Matt George, one of the tens of thousands of aid workers who headed to Pakistan after it was struck on Oct. 8 by its worst recorded earthquake, is accustomed to harsh conditions. But the American ex-surfer, who took up full-time volunteer work with the International Organization for Migration after he participated in relief efforts following the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has found his work especially frustrating in the devastated Neelum Valley, located in the Himalayan mountains in the Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley...
...Rival groups of angry young men are beating their chests and pumping up the volume of hate screech. One mob is mainly white surfer boys, the other tough guys of Lebanese origin. A festival of aggression-glass has been smashed, cars trashed, alcohol spilt and heads bashed-is never a pretty sight. This is a fight to the bottom for males who haven't found their place in the world. Loserpalooza is not the face that upwardly mobile, multicultural Sydney wants to show to the world...