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Traveling from area to area only one thing remained consistent: development. Here a condo, there a condo--each mountain is adding real estate to its list of profit-making activities. But the building boom isn't only at the bottom of the mountain. Every area has been expanding lift facilities, cutting new trails, and increasing snowmaking capacity...
Pulling off the interstate and driving through small villages with tourist gift shops which advertised "General Store items," seemed a fitting start to a day in Vermont. We arrived at Mount Snow just in time to catch the 9:00 a.m. lift opening...
Mary Robison, critically acclaimed author and Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor in English, met her present spouse, James, when he "offered me a lift on his motorcycle between states somewhere, on the way to Motor City...
...Brenssons ran for the stairwell, only to be met by other panicky guests and a thick wall of smoke. "We rushed back up," Brensson said. The family climbed onto the 20th-floor balcony that encircles the hotel. There three men helped lift them and others onto the top of the building. Throughout the late afternoon, six helicopters hovered in the air, plucking survivors from the roof...
...party Soviet Union. The Soviet leader may hope that Sakharov will play that role. If not, Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda a practical boost at home and a political lift abroad. Toward that end, Sakharov played his part well. "I have great respect for Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev," he told Western reporters. "I find the new policy of openness in this country very important...