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Outside the U.S., however, various kinds of synthetic ski surfaces have been more successful. A 400-meter nylon-covered ramp at Edinburgh's Hillend Ski Center is jammed with people during the winter months; so are the chloride-vinyl ski jumps and slalom courses of Tokyo's Yomuiriland. But it is in Brazil, where a tropical climate leaves no alternative, that plastic skiing has demonstrated its greatest appeal. In the past four years, 300,000 persons have driven the long dirt road that winds past lush palm, orange and banana trees to get to the President Medici...
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