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...defined me for the last 15, 20 years of my life, and I?d like to find myself away from that. I want to go out and slide around like normal people who go skiing instead of having to make perfect carving turns the entire way down the mountain. But to be really honest, what I want to do when I get done skiing is just sit on my couch, watch some TV and catch up with what?s going on in America right...
Alpine ski racer Picabo Street, who calls her sport a "dance with death" in her new autobiography, Picabo: Nothing to Hide, clearly has no illusions about the risks she faces every time she hurtles down a mountain at speeds of up to 140 km/h...
TIME: Is there a need for changes in ski racing? STREET: Definitely. When you?re screaming down the mountain and 1/100th of a second is what separates the first, second and third person, everybody?s a winner. We all need to look at it that way. Trying to keep things from one another and having secrets isn?t going to be what makes the difference of that 1/100th...
That flair led Watkins last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed...
Shangri-la. The very name is an incantation that evokes images of a mythical mountain paradise where peace reigns and life approaches perfection. Drawn from the pages of James Hilton's 1933 classic, Lost Horizon, Shangri-la has become synonymous with exotic escapism, a connotation not lost on the tourist industry...