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GLOBAL LIFE A22 Post-Olympics, Salt Lake City's resorts and facilities are world class...
Before the 2002 Olympics, the perception of Salt Lake City, Utah, was no postcard: picture a geographically isolated and socially conservative burg with a dead lake to the west and a deader night life. Seventeen days, several billion television viewers and more than 300,000 visitors later, Salt Lake was something to write home about: a world-class destination that attracted a record number of skiers who found powder, speed and fun. "Everyone here was exceptionally happy during the Olympics. I think they were relieved not to have their low expectations realized," says Renee Crabtree, owner of Renee...
...Soldier Hollow in midway (435-654-2002), visitors are steadying their .22-cal. rifles and taking aim at targets after cross-country skiing the Olympic biathlon course. Try not to be distracted by Soldier Hollow's backdrop--11,750-ft. Mount Timpanogos. down in the salt lake valley, you'll find the fastest ice on earth at the Olympic Oval (801-963-7109), where 10 records were set, eight of which still stand. You can try setting your own with the help of a coach and rental skates on the 400-m oval...
Park City is an old mining town 27 miles east of Salt Lake City that resurrected its soul through skiing. Two of its three resorts were host to Olympic events. Stein Eriksen Lodge (800-453-1302), located on Deer Valley's slopes, and Hotel Park City (435-940-5000) offer some of the town's most luxurious digs. After skiing, guests at Stein's place (the former Norwegian Olympian still mingles) can visit the day spa or soak in private hot tubs. The woodwork of the year-old Hotel Park City is reminiscent of that found in the old national...
...mean achievement, yet the Bushes were able to truthfully claim that they had hardly been aware of any protests. This was possible only because British authorities ensured that the demonstrators were kept out of the Bushes' range. And then, having cleverly outfoxed the protesters, the politicians added salt to the wound by extolling the virtues of free protests in democratic nations, pointing out that no such freedom had existed in Iraq. But what is the value of such liberties if protest is to be so cynically robbed of influence by the governments at which it is directed? For democracy...