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...money in a region many consider to be a black hole? "I have a fascination with risk," he says in his heavily accented English. "It makes me feel alive. I can get bored just living." While that confession may explain his activities as a speculator and breakneck downhill skier, it is only part of what drives a man who is himself a refugee from the region...
ASPEN'S TWIN PEAKS (ABC): Limited-run series. In the two-hour premiere, a lost skier, played by Kyle MacLachlan, goes for help, leaving his companion (Lara Flynn Boyle) in a cabin with only doughnuts to eat. She spends the next seven episodes hallucinating about a dancing dwarf (Jason Alexander). Directed by Jennifer Lynch...
...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...
Earlier this season, the men and women Nordic skiers attended a division two carnival at Vermont, and Harvard took six of the top eight places. Ware, the only women's Nordic skier for the Crimson, came in a full seven minutes before anyone in her competition...
...hard for juries to understand why women like Burt do not turn to the courts for orders of protection. But these are a makeshift shield at best, often violated and hard to enforce. Olympic skier Patricia Kastle had a restraining order when her former husband shot her. Lisa Bianco in Indiana remained terrified of her husband even after he was sent to jail for eight years. When prison officials granted Alan Matheney an eight-hour pass in March 1989, he drove directly to Bianco's home, broke in and beat her to death with the butt of a shotgun. Last...