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The Dangers of Surfing Big Waves and Brain Injuries How often are surfers getting concussed...or worse? Tom Dosland. Photo: Fred Pompermayer Dashel Pierson Link copied to clipboard At a remote surf spot in northern California, Shawn Dollar was in trouble. It was 2015 and Dollar was surfing alone. When a large set steamrolled his way, he stood on his board for a few feet of extra leverage, and dove beneath the whitewash. But, as he broke the surface, he went head-first into a shallow rock. His neck was broken; his brain, scrambled.     “The real problem was, which I found out later, that a...

“Under the Southern Sky,”  by Kristy Woodson Harvey (Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster, 389 pages, $16.99 paperback) Put “Under the Southern Sky," the latest novel by North Carolina’s rising star Kristy Woodson Harvey, on your reading list, right at the top. Over the last several years, with stand-alone novels and her Peachtree Bluff trilogy, Harvey has become a regular on bestseller lists and a favorite of readers who enjoy contemporary Southern fiction. Her books are primarily aimed at women — women who want a good story that doesn’t insult their intelligen...

The moment you fall in love, the world comes to a stop. But when you fall in love with one of the foxy, free-spirited 2021 Toyota hybrids, things begin to speed up.