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...Angeles home office. On the patio, a hula hoop and a portable basketball rim await his children's return from school. Breitbart, 41, dressed on this late-winter day in his standard work uniform of a dirty oxford-cloth shirt and grungy khaki shorts, looks more like a surf bum than one of the most divisive figures in America's political and culture wars. Then his BlackBerry rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Breitbart: The Web's New Right-Wing Impresario | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...facelift, that all-inclusive hideaway, known as the Jumby Bay Resort, has reopened with 28 new ocean-side suites featuring 5.5-meter vaulted ceilings and outdoor tubs, two restaurants, a cooking school helmed by Le Cirque - trained chef Juan Pablo Loza and an open-air spa that overlooks the surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escape to Jumby Bay | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...example, Flickinger's research shows that at a group of WinCo Foods stores in California, the Western grocery chain carried 34 different sizes of detergent brands like Sun, Arm & Hammer, Surf and Gain. Neighboring Walmarts only carried 10 of these sizes. Further, of the 10 brand packages both stores sold, WinCo was cheaper on five of them. Two carried the same price, and Walmart offered better prices on three of the detergent packages. Of the 32 different sizes of Kellogg's cereal brands offered by WinCo, Walmart carried just seven. Of the brands both stores sold, WinCo was cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walmart, Suffering a Rare Slump, Fights Back on Prices | 3/20/2010 | See Source »

Clark, now a surfboard maker, became the driving force behind the Mavericks Surfing Contest, which he started in 1999 with a novel idea: the competition would be called at 48 hours' notice and only when the waves topped 20 ft. Once a storm with swells that size was predicted, Clark alerted the 24 best big-wave riders from around the world, and they scrambled to reach Half Moon Bay, better known for its fog and eerie fields of pumpkins. Advertisers figured out swiftly that nothing sells better to the youth market than the heroic (and rebellious) image of a lone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surfing Super Bowl: Facing the Mavericks | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

Banner agrees. He says he could use the money. He clears trees and works in construction, giving him the flexibility to surf whenever the titanic swells roll in. But when he takes off on a wave, he says, "I'm not thinking about the money or the contest. It's about you and the ocean. It could be the end of your life, and that's what gives the moment its purity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surfing Super Bowl: Facing the Mavericks | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

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