Word: boulder
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Nothing epitomizes the transformation of the region from its hardy frontier stereotype more than the city of Boulder (pop. 95,000). Its New Age proclivities are evident on the handbills advertising everything from channeling to aromatherapy on the kiosks along the Pearl Street pedestrian mall. Boulder still accommodates a leftover '60s style, like that of its Buddhist-inspired Naropa Institute, where Allen Ginsberg still holds court each summer. And it regularly hyperventilates with an ultra-liberal world view that has prompted the city council to pronounce itself on foreign policy as readily as on sewage easements. During the Gulf...
...paragraph stories that appeared in most of the nation's press didn't tell much. As usual, Hersey, 36, an Englishman who lived in Boulder, Colorado, had been climbing alone. No one knows what went wrong, at what height, on a route that should have been relatively easy for him. It was a private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope...
That's now. But George Bracksieck, editor of Rock & Ice magazine in Boulder, estimates that 100,000 new climbers are entering the sport each year. Gear sales and Interior Department figures suggest that 4.1 million people across the nation do some variety of mountaineering each year. Many of the newcomers arrive, wearing Lycra, by way of the local indoor climbing walls. Some won't get far from their cars, but others will sniff the wind blowing from the back country. Accident figures and rescue costs will rise...
...been to four-five home openers of the New York Yankees and nothing compares to this. I've been in Boulder 13 years waiting, and God almighty, two home run--the first run ever scored was a home run--nothing could be greater."--Tom Savoth of Boulder, Colo., after the home opener of the Colorado Rockies...
...Boulder, Aspen and Denver have already opposed this amendment in court and have won. The amendment passed, Bennett said, because "the language in the ballot was misleading...