Word: surfer
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...back to “rehab.” (She didn’t even get to say goodbye to Kirsten…tsk tsk. Maybe she’ll send a “Stalk you again soon” card.) Ryan’s conflict with that surfer from the bad side of the tracks—Stalin or Voldemort or whatever her name is—ended when Ryan managed to, as Sandy paternalistically put it, “use brains instead of brawn.” Eloquent, no? Never before has a character pulled a complete...
...SONY DVP-FX705 PORTABLE DVD PLAYER AND STEP INTO LIQUID DVD. ?I'm a surfer. This is really cool for someone who's getting into surfing because it shows the heritage.? $300 at sonystyle.com DVD from Lions Gate Entertainment...
...Still, determined Chinese web surfers manage to tunnel through today's firewall with the help of software that guides them to overseas "proxy servers," computers that enable them to fetch and view banned content. Activists smuggle proxy software into China and pass it hand-to-hand on flash memory devices. "It's really cat and mouse," says Bill Xia, president of U.S.-based Dynamic Internet Technology, whose product bounces users among many proxy servers, making it hard to track the surfer's identity...
...Through the '90s, Burling's coterie of young surfers expanded and diversified - it took in numerous girls, for one thing - and in 1994 the Australian established the Tonga Surfriders Association, which now boasts more than 30 active members. As a surfer, Burling lacked champion qualities, but he was technically sound and adept at imparting what he knew about staying on a wave to these wide-eyed pioneers. "I don't know what I've done right, but I've just explained simple technique and the kids have taken it from there," says Burling. "With video, too, it's great these...
...Tonga's next generation is coming through. On this morning there are probably more complete surfers than 10-year-old Alan Burling showing their wares. But he's the kid who catches the eye. While the others appear wary of falling, he zips across the waves with abandon. "I want to be a pro surfer," he says later during a game of ping-pong, in which he at first pretends never to have played the game, and then begins swiping balls into the corners. Dad Steve is not ruling it out: "I think he's surfing better than Michael...