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...Number of days after Michael Kennedy's death that the National Ski Areas Association noted these statistics in a press release...
Sources: Arizona Law Review, Associated Press, Los Angeles Police Department, National Ski Areas Association
...attracting a younger audience. Another feeling among riders is that their sport is still evolving, with new moves being pioneered. The Olympics might freeze everything in place. And then there's the organizational feud. The Olympic Committee handed responsibility over snowboarding events in Nagano to the International Ski Federation, not to the snowboarders' own federation. The skiing organization, said Haakonsen, "did not want to have anything to do with us previously. But now that we have become so big, they are coming to take us." He has drawn his line in the snow...
Whites have always bitten off black culture (the beatniks, rock 'n' roll, everything Quentin Tarantino has ever done). It gives them that cool, outsider image they so desperately need. But over the past few years, black kids have been taking fashion cues from the whitest of the white: ski gear, polo shirts, hiking boots, N.H.L. jerseys. The gold chains and dangling clocks of the '80s have been replaced with sweaters in bright primary colors with polo embroidered on the front. Jeans are in, but the baggier the better. Ski jackets are pumped up to Michelin Man proportions. Things have...
Last year Wu-Wear made $10 million and opened four stand-alone stores filled with Wasp staples like varsity jackets, pea coats, hooded sweatshirts ("hoodies") and ski caps ("skullies"). Wu- Wear is one of the first inner-city styles that actually look good on white kids. And, of course, it's white guys who make up a big hunk of the hip-hop clothing market. FUBU was surprised to learn that as fly as it may be, one of its top markets is Washington State. Even those who take their fashion tips from PBS are joining on: when LL Cool...