Word: glides
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...choices of vacations on wheels are limitless. You can travel solo with tent through the Rockies or glide along Dutch canals with a feather bed awaiting you at your five-star hotel. But however you go, even if you begin with a sore behind, you will finish with a soaring spirit...
...spot the new arrivals by the briskness of their gaits. On the streets, teenagers conduct confabulations on motorbikes?two or three abreast?scarcely going fast enough to remain vertical. Rheumy-eyed old timers lean on fences in the grip of some nameless torpor. Silent saffron parades of monks glide by, footsteps raising little puffs of dust, stooping now and then to solicit alms. Time creeps by. You imagine some indolent imp has fallen asleep inside your watch and gummed up its works. Indeed, Luang Prabang might just be the best value holiday destination in Asia, if only because...
...WHAT IT IS A jump in which skaters glide on the back outside edge of one skate, kick off from the toe pick of the other and land on the edge of that skate. The rotation forces the upper body to turn in the opposite direction from the hips when entering the jump, making the move more difficult for women than for men to perform, since they have less upper-body strength to fight the lower body's rotation...
Like Sarah Hughes of the U.S., Slutskaya is a natural and powerful jumper. At last year's world championships, she strung together - and successfully landed - three jumps in a row. But her approach to Utah wasn't always a smooth glide. Just two years ago the two-time European champion failed to qualify for the Russian world team and seriously considered retiring: "I ask myself, What do I want to do? Go back to school? Never. I love figure skating. I can't live without it." If she keeps her jumps in control, Slutskaya may well become the first Russian...
...will be in New York City this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. This year the gabfest has decamped from its mountain fastness in Davos, Switzerland, for the charms of midtown Manhattan, where the movers and shakers will discuss the state of the world and glide from one party to another. I'd bet a trayful of caviar canapes that none of them will make it to Canal Street. Too bad; they could learn more there than they ever will in the Waldorf-Astoria...