Devon Howard dove into one thing in particular that many people struggle with when a surfboard gets a bit of length in it: generating speed.

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Richard Salick was a champion surfer and a tireless advocate for kidney disease research and patient care who died at age 62 in 2012. But, three kidney transplants — the first from his twin brother, ...