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DISPATCHES
A Skateboard Legend's Half-Pipe Dreams
By Ian Wilhelm
Carlsbad, Calif.On a crisp, sunny morning here, a dozen or so teenagers in baggy jeans do their best to defy gravity. At a newly built skateboard park, they zip through the gray-white hills and valleys with abandon, the soft rolling sound of their rubber wheels punctuated by the occasional crash of a failed ollie or other aerial trick.
Despite...