Word: surfer
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Never one to keep his opinions quiet, Venter did two stints in the brig for refusing to follow orders. When he returned to the U.S., his laid-back surfer-boy mentality was gone. He signed up at the University of California, San Diego, and emerged six years later with a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology. Within a few years, he landed at the National Institutes of Health, where he began trying to locate and decode a gene that governs production of a brain-cell protein. The work was agonizingly slow, and when he heard about a computerized machine that used...
...nation's southern beaches is bringing back the movie's memorable teaser: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..." So far this year in Florida, 21 people have been bitten--on track to surpass the 25 attacks in 1999. Recent victims include a surfer in Melbourne, Fla., who last week nearly lost his foot...
...gang stayed up late playing truth or dare. Or the times Eddie, the Long Island tough who lost a leg to cancer, tells anyone who will listen, "Chicks dig me. I dunno why." Or when Brittany, the pink-haired virgin, innocently persuaded Karen, the unhappy housewife, and Josh, the surfer heartthrob, to cuddle with her as a threesome in the "big bed of looove...
...seems every other surfer and skateboarder is into golf," says Will McCulloch, 25, a U.X. Open player and managing editor of Schwing!--a slick, year-old magazine that reaches an estimated 68,000 punkish players of both conventional and extreme golf. "The game isn't just for geeks or old, white men anymore," adds Adrian Young, 30, who plays drums for the rock band No Doubt and boasts an 8 handicap. The National Golf Foundation reports that 57% of all current players are younger than...
...Last week, in the wake of Gretchen's unexpected expulsion by the Tribal Council, the first meaty theory emerged about who really won the tape-delayed "Survivor" when it was completed on April 20. An intrepid web surfer had rummaged through CBS' web site and discovered that among pictures of the cast members, a certain picture of Gervase (the lazy one) did not have a certain red X over his face. Winner? Saying it was probably a CBS-engineered red herring, I nevertheless passed it on to readers of this site last week. (As for the Gervase "red X" theory...