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...After the discussion, Engelhart presents his weekly mini-lecture on aspects of the sport. Today's lesson: How to build a mountain...
...Bill Gates gave us a billion dollars--we're making a mountain from scratch." he says as he steps to the chalkboard...
...Lift-ticket prices have skyrocketed this year, and a Sunday pass will run a snowboarder somewhere between $35 and $59. At the beginning of the season, HUSC offered members a three-mountain season pass for a drastically reduced rate. The club also offers loans of boards and boots so riders without equipment can avoid costly rental fees...
...Russians seem intent on winning--for now--at any cost. In Moscow, top army commanders announced at week's end that Russian troops had entered the third and final phase of the offensive, the destruction of guerrillas in their mountain bases. On Thursday Grozny was hammered with the heaviest rocket and artillery fire of the current war. Thousands of rockets and shells rained down on the city, according to the Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen...
...invested in the S&P 500, it would have grown to just $49,923, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago's graduate school of business. Incredibly, there were more than a few outright losers, including Acuson (-46%), Battle Mountain Gold (-83%), Russell Corp. (-51%) and Toys "R" Us (-29%). Many others were gross laggards (Fluor, International Paper, Kellogg, Reynolds Metals, GM). The analysts messed up by taking Pepsi (+260%) over Coke (+599%), Unilever (+165%) over Gillette (+558%). And a couple of stocks (Waste Management and Compaq) blew up just this year...