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...than a minute to complete. Local topography is hilly rather than mountainous and poses little challenge to ardent ski demons. Many resorts also depend on artificial snow, which, in addition to providing less-than-ideal schussing conditions, requires thousands of tons of water in a region already suffering from drought. With Chinese skiers clamoring for tougher runs and posher digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting out the market?just as foreign golf-course firms did a few years earlier. This week, Shanghai will host the first-ever Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing...
...than a minute to complete. Local topography is hilly rather than mountainous and poses little challenge to ardent ski demons. Many resorts also depend on artificial snow, which, in addition to providing less-than-ideal schussing conditions, requires thousands of tons of water in a region already suffering from drought. With Chinese skiers clamoring for tougher runs and posher digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting out the market-just as foreign golf-course firms did a few years earlier. This week, Shanghai will host the first-ever Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing...
...Meanwhile, Harvard floundered, shooting 8-of-26 from the field and committing 11 turnovers. “We had a tough time with turnovers,” Rollins said. “And we had a tough time getting the shots we wanted.” Amidst the scoring drought, senior Shana Franklin and freshman Katie Rollins led the Crimson offensively with 12 and 10 points, respectively. Harvard did manage to make more trips to the free-throw line than its rival—20 compared to eight—but the extra shots did not help erase the deficit...
...right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what's still wrong with India. In the last few years, thousands of impoverished farmers have committed suicide in the barren, drought-stricken land outside the metropolis. For some, despair has turned to anger at the shiny city on the horizon, and their forsaken fields are now a front line in a little-noticed war between security forces and an estimated 10,000 Marxist guerrillas. In a land-mine attack a few hours...
...loss to second-place Princeton was but the continuation of a disturbing year-long trend: the Crimson stumbles out of the gate more often than not, burying itself in a first-half hole that even sustained second-half runs cannot fill. That frustrating inconsistency—untimely droughts followed by offensive outbursts and stalwart defense—is a mark of the youth that has kept Harvard out of the Ivy title hunt since the fourth weekend of the season.“We’ve tried to iron [the slow starts] out,” said Harvard head...