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This year's favorite in the unofficial popularity contest is Isaac Menyoli. The 29-year-old cross-country skier from Buea in snowless Cameroon - his country's first-ever Winter Olympian - wants the ballyhoo that comes with being bad. But unlike the crowd-pleasing losers of Games past, he doesn't want all the attention. He actually has something other than himself to promote: AIDS education...
...longer the state in which some 120 settlers from Arkansas were killed for being non-Mormons in the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Now the gates to the Beehive State are wide open. Five million people visited its five national parks last year. A record 3.4 million skier days were recorded last season at its 14 Rocky Mountain resorts. And Utah is bending over backward to attract science graduates, software wizards and venture capitalists from across the country...
...Staff Writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...