So I was puttering down Interstate 75, doing the one-finger radio when my FM dial landed on what sounded like your typical pop tale: Girl meets Prince Charming after a lifetime of kissing frogs. The story was headed toward the predictable happily Read More

The phone rang one Saturday morning. My daughter was watching cartoons, so I took the cordless into the hall. A man introduced himself. I expected him to launch into a rote sales pitch for a new long-distance service or credit card company, but the Read More

HONG KONG — Douglas Zhang describes himself as “a QQ person through and through.” A “VIP” subscriber to QQ, China’s most popular instant-messaging service, the 24-year-old Beijing information-technology professional has more than 100 QQ friends in Read More

While surfing has become popular around the world, it is surfing’s Hawaiian history that Pohaku Stone wants to make known. Pohaku’s appreciation for his own roots fuels this passion. “My father taught me the ways of our kupuna; the making of wooden Read More

I feel blessed to have called Woody Brown my friend, since he was the most influential surfer of our time and the most inventive person I have ever known. Woody wrote me a letter once, in 1999. He was 87 years old at the time, and recently married to Read More

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