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...first sign that Lotus Mountain is not Aspen comes from the man skiing down the hill in a pin-striped business suit. Other skiers are dressed in more sporty Gore-Tex outfits, but many share the snow-dusted rear of the man dressed for a day at the office. After all, most of the visitors to this newly built ski resort in China's northeast only began strapping on ski boots in the last couple of years. Few know how to negotiate a gentle slope without a few spills?or realize that the dried squid and sauteed pig kidney...
...first sign that Lotus Mountain is not Aspen comes from the man skiing down the hill in a pin-striped business suit. Other skiers are dressed in more sporty Gore-Tex outfits, but many share the snow-dusted rear of the man dressed for a day at the office. After all, most of the visitors to this newly built ski resort in China's northeast only began strapping on ski boots in the last couple of years. Few know how to negotiate a gentle slope without a few spills-or realize that the dried squid and sauteed pig kidney...
...ASPEN Snow bunnies enjoy Bobbi Brown's smudge-proof gel eyeliner ($18) because none of the 12 intense colors will smear on the slopes...
...gilded bubble otherwise known as Aspen, Colo., the local pecking order isn't kind to outsiders. At the top are the natives, then the Johnny-come-latelies, followed by the tourists--who are vermin in most resort towns. But in Aspen, the bottom slot goes to guys like David Massarano, a prosperous real estate attorney from Houston who recently dropped $470,000 for three slices of a one-bedroom condo in the six-week-old Hyatt Grand Aspen, 157 steps from the gondola at the base of Aspen Mountain...
Massarano is not the only flatlander engaged in a high-stakes land rush for fractionals--the new-millennium term for time shares in lavish condominium projects in Aspen and other beautiful-people playgrounds sprouting around the world. Shelling out an average $221,600 for a deeded share, these Range Rover-in', Fendi-friendly folks who live to ski, golf and power shop are buying a couple of weeks of prime time in first-class venues stretching from the West Coast through the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico. More often than not, though, the tab ranges from...