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...hill in a pin-striped business suit. Other skiers are dressed in more sporty Gore-Tex outfits, but many share the snow-dusted rear of the man dressed for a day at the office. After all, most of the visitors to this newly built ski resort in China's northeast only began strapping on ski boots in the last couple of years. Few know how to negotiate a gentle slope without a few spills-or realize that the dried squid and sauteed pig kidney on the mountain-lodge menu are not usual ski-resort fare. "Now that Chinese have more...
...most of China's big ski resorts are clustered in the country's impoverished northeast. While some American ski-resort towns boast film festivals and fashionable clothing boutiques, the village houses near Lotus Mountain are made of blocks of mud mixed with straw, and the only hotel accommodation is in flimsy, prefab lodges. Donkeys porting bundles of firewood for sale roam the village. Given the rustic environment, Lotus Mountain markets itself as an ecotourism destination, but the Air Supply tunes blasting from loudspeakers placed at regular intervals along the slopes shatter the wintry calm of the setting...
...boots may be an easy sell compared with convincing Chinese to vacation at high-end domestic ski resorts. China's northeast may have plenty of snow, but with average temperatures in the -20°C range, this is hardly balmy country. Chinese tourists with enough cash to dedicate to a luxury sport may prefer to go abroad. "South Korea is only two hours away and has great ski resorts," says Wang Hongbin, publisher of China's first ski magazine, Speed Ski. "People like to boast that they have vacationed overseas, not in some poor village in China's northeast...
...Fayetteville, Ark. senior Samyr Laine and sophomore Lindsey Scherf respresented the Harvard track and field teams by competing in the long jump and the women’s 5000- and 3000-meter runs, respectively. Laine, who was named U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I Northeast Region Field Athlete of the Year, jumped 15.48 meters in his third and final attempt to place 12th in a field of 17 competitors. Lane also fouled on his first attempt and landed a jump of 14.95 meters on his second. Scherf, in only her second year of collegiate competition...
...Crimson in 2006.Haviland, the de facto ace, went 7-1 in 14 appearances during his freshman campaign, leading the team with a 3.10 ERA and holding opponents to a .225 batting average. A pre-season first-team All-Ivy pick and the only Harvard representative on the All-Northeast Corridor squad, he hopes to rebound from a bout of mononucleosis late last spring and reprise his role as a surefire weekend starter. “He had a real good season—7-1,” says Walsh of Haviland. “And I think he?...