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During a training session at Colorado's Snowmass Mountain, near Aspen last week, a group of élite snowboarders who call themselves the Collection swooshed, spun and flipped over a curved channel, or half-pipe, changing the way their sport is played...
...alone that separates the Collection--whose members include teen phenoms Mason Aguirre, 18, and Luke Mitrani, 15; 2002 Olympic gold medalists Ross Powers, 26, and Kelly Clark, 22; 2005 X-Games silver medalist Andy Finch, 24; and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, who is expected to take the women's half-pipe gold in Torino--from the rest of the snowboarding world. The group, formed in 2004, is the first rider-controlled team in the sport, operating outside the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), which oversees the U.S. national team...
...plans to call friends in the U.S. the same way - instead of dialing his NTL fixed-line telephone. "I'm just trying to find a way to keep down the costs," says Tuttle. His life could obviously be simplified if all his communications came through a single pipe, and that's what tomorrow's telecom companies are hoping to offer. As digital technology enables more customers to bypass traditional paid services, telecoms are scrambling to introduce services that combine telephone, broadband and subscription television into a single package that can be piped into every home - and eventually to mobile devices...
...using economic weapons-particularly, energy as a weapon-RAO UES bought a power station in the Transdniester Republic (a breakaway Moldova province, very much under Moscow's influence), and then cut off Moldova from this key power supplier, until Moldova met its terms. Transneft (Russia's state-owned oil pipe monopoly), blocked oil flowing from Kazakhstann to Lithuania, because Russia coveted Lithuania's oil refinery. The latest such case is abruptly raising natural gas prices fourfold for Ukraine...
...said. “Pretty consistently there was work going on throughout the day, but it wasn’t anything major... [The] fire alarm shenanigans were the first real technical problems I’ve experienced, although there is always a very loud banging in a pipe in the basement when I have class there...