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Apart from answering the question of whether more legroom really can make people happy, Legend will plumb a major mystery of the booming U.S. economy: In an age when Americans are demanding high-end luxury alternatives in every market from mountain bikes to hotel bathrooms, why can't they escape steerage when they fly? Must every ticket purchased be low-end and high-hassle...
...laborer and two dozen other guys in work shirts and battered jeans are gathered in the basement of Eagle County's government building, hard by the vacation resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek and Copper Mountain. They're listening to instructor Gustavo Heredia explain bail bonds, warrants and plea bargains. Many in the crowd are recent arrivals from Mexico. None can speak English. And all are in trouble for such offenses as drunk driving, driving without insurance, spousal abuse and fighting. Four-fifths of them are in the U.S. illegally, but deportation is no big worry in the Colorado resort country...
...shoots back. "In the U.S.," Heredia says, "you don't have to break up a fight. The police will do it for you." He explains that "the system here is like a card game. You've got to know the rules to win." Javier, 26, a laborer at Copper Mountain Resort, learned the hard way. He paid a $450 fine--about a week's wages--after he was pulled over for having a broken windshield. Then the Chihuahua native was charged with driving while impaired, although he insists he had only one beer...
...There ain’t no valley lower than the Science Center mailroom, but Vincent B. Chu ’03 carries a Carabiner wherever he goes. It once secured him to a rope on the side of Malibu Mountain. Straying even deeper, FM found Vincent’s own little black book, scribbled thick with the names and numbers of all the barbies in Malibu...
...founder of a think tank called the Rocky Mountain Institute, Lovins, 52, makes his home amid the alpine splendor of Snowmass, Colorado, but his influence can be seen in Detroit, Tokyo, Stuttgart--wherever cars are made. In 1991, before the industry got serious about greener cars, Lovins used a speech before the U.S. National Research Council to call for a transportation revolution. Though the title--"Advanced Light Vehicle Concepts"--could have used more pizazz, the response was immediate. More than two dozen car companies have enlisted his expertise from time to time...