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...Goddard, former world rafting champion and owner of Bio Bio Expeditions in California, www.bbxrafting.com, has rafted on the Zambezi every year since 1989. He says that, due to the river's special hydrotopographical features, "if you use your fins to face upstream at the right moment on a standing wave, you can stay there forever." Just save plenty of energy for the 250-m vertical climbs out of the gorge on handmade bamboo ladders that punctuate the rock face along the way. Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers...
...them for surfers.) Clark's Laguna Niguel, Calif., company produced 80% of blanks worldwide, and his sudden exit (encircled by rumors of pressure by environmental regulators) left surfers treading water as board prices doubled and deliveries were cut off. One man's wipeout, though, could be another's dream wave. Harold Walker, a 47-year industry veteran with 5% to 10% of the California market, and Gary Linden have quadrupled Walker Foam's staff and are scouting for a new factory, hoping to produce 800 blanks a day by July, up from 125 now. But high-volume surfboardmakers...
...Harvard’s Saturday clash versus Yale could quickly be identified as the game’s two scores. But the most important plays of the game may have been a trio of Bulldogs goals that were disallowed—two in the opening frame and a final wave-off in overtime, permitting the 1-1 final. The initial pair of whistles came during a pivotal stretch of 5-on-3 play to end the first period. With goalie Martin facing a relentless Yale onslaught, the referee blew the play dead during a fracas in front...
...first wave is already in. John Aldeborgh, a sales executive at Varian Semiconductor, got to keep his company-leased Porsche as part of an exit package approved earlier this month. Tyson Foods CEO John Tyson, who took home $4.3 million in salary and bonus last year, got another $324,472 in personal use of the company jet. Fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box spent more than $51,000 on financial planning for outgoing CEO Robert Nugent, who made $2.1 million in salary and bonus, and presumably can pay for his own investment advice. There?s been disclosures...
...huge number of assumptions that could easily be wrong. Both nations could be derailed by geopolitical instability or Western protectionism. Both need to overcome enormous regional disparities of wealth and spread their growing prosperity more evenly among their populations. Davos had a well-attended session that focused on the wave of protests against corrupt officials in Chinese towns and villages. Some experts, including Orit Gadiesh, chairman of consultants Bain, says this competition misses the point: the world economy is not a zero-sum game, and both countries are likely to end up winners. "We are not hostile rivals...