Word: surfers
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Bilbray, a surfer, became mayor of Imperial Beach at the fresh age of 27 and rode a G.O.P. wave to congressional victory in 1994. He spent much of his first term working on environmental issues--notably, he helped San Diego win exemption from some sewage-treatment regulations--but shows signs of centrism with a vote against repealing the assault-weapons...
Think of the impact on some innocent channel surfer who, in looking around for a diverting sporting event a while back, was making his way past MTV at the moment Bill Clinton was discussing his preference in underwear...
Remember: the surfer may not have known that the President was going to appear on MTV to answer the questions of young people, and he may have heard only a clause or two of the President's remarks before going on to the next channel, and he may not have truly registered what he'd heard until halftime in the Australian football game from Melbourne he had finally settled...
...would not have been the first time Kemp's political career took a detour. He is a California boy, but not the California of Beach Boys songs and surfer girls. His father started a small trucking company and raised his four sons in the middle-class Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Kemp's persistence comes from his old man, who gradually expanded his business from one truck to 14, but his empathy comes from his mother, a onetime social worker and Spanish teacher...
...guru turned 'Net-surfer Leary, who lectured at Harvard for about four years, staged his battle with cancer over the Internet, even promising to transmit his suicide electronically...