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...expert slopes. That is when she decided she liked straying off the groomed trails and onto the rougher, steep stuff: moguls presented an extra challenge. "I started skiing bumps and I had fun," says Weinbrecht. "I felt a freedom of expression." Her teammate and training partner, Nelson Carmichael of Colorado, is expected to win a gold medal in the men's division. Two other types of free-style skiing, ballet and aerials, will be demonstration events this year and probably medal categories...
Across southeast Texas, the Brazos, Trinity and Colorado rivers, swelled by nearly 9 in. of rain that pelted their headwaters last month, overflowed their banks for miles, sweeping away buildings and vehicles. With losses in the tens of millions of dollars and 15 dead, 25 counties were designated as disaster areas by President Bush. Lamented James Phillips, chief administrator in Brazoria County: "Nobody expected this in a hundred years. We were practically defenseless...
Texans tried to keep the flood from dampening their seasonal spirits. More than 1,000 people in Dallas had Christmas dinner at Red Cross mobile kitchens, where they received special holiday gifts: scrub brushes, buckets and mops. In the Colorado River community of Wharton, more than a dozen flood victims spent the holiday in a school gym. "This is a Christmas I'll remember, all right," remarked Evelyn Shanklin, 89. "I didn't have to cook...
...conflict attending Mary have risen to extraordinary levels. A grass-roots revival of faith in the Virgin is taking place worldwide. Millions of worshippers are flocking to her shrines, many of them young people. Even more remarkable are the number of claimed sightings of the Virgin, from Yugoslavia to Colorado, in the past few years...
ASPEN (PBS, Dec. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Frederick Wiseman, the no- frills documentarian who has explored everything from hospitals to animal laboratories, gets a rare dose of fresh air in this 2 1/2-hr. look at the trendy Colorado retreat...