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...struggled to maintain his gains. Like a golf swing, the submarine motion remains contingent on a number of factors—“Am I saying back? Am I staying closed? Am I getting extension? Am I using my backside?” says Brown, counting them down—with the most important perhaps being mental stamina...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Submarines Way to Dominance | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

...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 ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to the People | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

When the apocalypse arrives, at least he'll be comfortable. Patterson spends most of the year in Palm Beach, three blocks from a world-class golf course. His backyard is the Intracoastal Waterway. Sitting in his airy, wood-paneled office, surrounded by about a dozen neat stacks of paper representing works in progress, he's amiable, chatty and deeply unpretentious--he refers to his writing as "scribbling." But it's at least a bit of a con--he's read practically everything, and he gets a sly kick out of reminding you of that. He references both Ibsen and Crichton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: James Patterson: The Man Who Can't Miss | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...wasn't done. He wanted to re-engineer his own creative process. He's never had a problem with writer's block, but there were just too many ideas piling up in his head. So when he and journalist Peter de Jonge came up with an idea for a golf novel, Miracle on the 17th Green, he thought, Why not just write it together? "Peter's a much better stylist than I am, and I'm a much better storyteller than he is. It's another way to do things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: James Patterson: The Man Who Can't Miss | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...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 ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to the People | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

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