No Ill Wind in Hood River via NYTimes Travel Maui Meyer, a world-class windsurfer and a writer for American Windsurfer Magazine, who happens to have trained as a restaurateur at Cornell University

Patents; A blow by blow of how the inventor of windsurfing found his place in the sun via NYTimes American Windsurfer, a glossy quarterly magazine based in Gilford, N.H., published an article titled “Origins of Windsurfing,” featuring two extensive interviews with Mr. Drake and Mr. Schweitzer

Carter Dismisses Clinton State Dept. via The Hill Nice to read an admirable review of John Kerry from Jimmy Carter!

An Insect That Masters Water and Air via NYTimes The lily pad beetle moves across the surface of the water in a kind of self-powered windsurfing