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Jostrom comes from Kalispell, Mont., an idyllic ski-resort town only half an hour from Glacier National Park. The small town of 12,000 people has little discernable music scene...
...would be tough to overlook a bed-and-breakfast located in Jackson Hole, Wyo., 10 minutes from a buzzing town, five from the Jackson Hole Ski Area, 15 from Grand Teton National Park and just an hour from Yellowstone. But the Wildflower Inn, an actual log cabin built by owners Ken and Sherrie Jern, is a destination in its own right...
...north in rural western Maine, the Sugarloaf/USA resort gives ski lessons to students in the first through eighth grades of nearby Stratton K-8 public school. For Stratton's middle-school students, the resort offers golf lessons and environmental field trips and provides opportunities for job-shadowing and work-study. "It makes education more relevant when children can have a hands-on experience outside the classroom," says Stratton principal Lorrie Arruda...
...politico and former Buchanan bedfellow, leading her entourage of New York delegates away from the Buchanan camp, into the Hagelin mini-convention, then back into the Buchanan side of the Reform convention seeking a larger walk-out of dissidents. There was an obese, half-naked Long Beach resident named "Ski" Demski, who entered the convention hall with his massive belly depicting tattoos of an American eagle while his back was adorned with a large flag. There was another fellow carrying around a sign that read "Nominate Jimmy Carter to Unite the Reform Party." And there was Jim Bourassa, founding chairman...
Christian Marty was a fighter. The drive that pushed him to the top of the piloting profession also made him an avid sportsman who would hang glide over volcano craters, ski the most difficult slaloms and who, in 1982, became the first Frenchman ever to windsurf across the Atlantic. "In everything he did, he always wanted to prove to himself that he was as good as the best," says Claude Bouvier-Muller, 71, a retired Air France pilot and a close friend. "Yet he never bragged. It was a personal challenge...