Word: skiing
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Inside the hideout were a loaded .45 automatic handgun, a .32 revolver, plastic masks, wigs and fake mustaches and beard, burglary devices, ski hats, latex gloves and "a scanner to monitor police transmission and a book to help decode them," according to the Globe report...
Guerrilla theater note, environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...
...mining industry sees nothing outlandish in the risk Crown Butte proposes to take with the nation's oldest national park, and nothing funny about the claiming of ski runs by environmental jokers. Hard-rock mining (for gold, copper, silver and other metals) once ruled the Rocky Mountain states. The industry is foreign-dominated now (18 of the 25 largest gold mines in the country are owned by non-U.S. firms, most of them Canadian). Only one Western job in 1,000 is directly tied to metal mining. But mining interests have not lost the knack of command, nor have...
...California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike...
...Mount Igman and Mount Bjelasnica overlooking the city, Serb militiamen appeared to take heed. Making a show of fulfilling Karadzic's original promise to pull back, troops began to move off the mountainsides, accompanied by tanks, trucks and jeeps. As they left, they apparently set fire to several ski lodges. In the town of Trnovo, southeast of Sarajevo, hundreds of grimy soldiers lined up for tourist buses that would carry them away from the peaks they had captured after 10 days of heavy fighting. Some displayed the souvenirs of victory: a Bosnian flag, a helmet with an inscription in Arabic...