Surfing’s dirty secret is easy to find in the drab enclave of San Clemente known as the surf ghetto, where the ocean breeze is spiked with the sweet smell of chemicals and men wearing flip-flops and ...

July 7, 2006 Sandia National Laboratories prides itself on provifind technology solutions to the most challenging problems that threaten peace and freedom for our nation and the globe. It’s ...

Somewhere in California, Florida or Hawaii someone is painstakingly sculpting a block of polyurethane foam into one of the most unique products the United States has ever produced: a surfboard. Using ...

In the surfing world, it's called a wipeout. On Dec. 6, 2005, Clark Foam (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) - the supplier of 80 percent of the polyurethane foam blanks that form the cores of the world's ...

Take a junky surfboard that’s been sitting in the back yard all winter. Grind it up. What can you do with it? Turn it into street pavement? You can. You even can turn it into a new surfboard. The ...

VENTURA, Calif. -- When the Clark Foam company unexpectedly shut down in December 2005 because of environmental reasons, some said it spelled doom for the surfing industry. Many thought the price of ...

Few things are essential to surfers, but a polyurethane board is certainly one of them. And now that is threatened, many surfers fear, with the news this week that the manufacturer of foam blanks used ...