At some point, many of us were briefly fascinated with kites. The reason we were only briefly interested in this hobby was that it was fraught with failure: The kite never flew or, if it did, it was ...

Take a stroll through a modern kite store, such as the Kite Loft at Harborplace, and you’ll know the days of the paper-covered two-stickers you used to get for a dime are long gone. It is easy to ...