Word: skiing
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...MOROCCO: Oukeimeden boasts Africa's highest ski lift, at 3,261 m. Just 74 km from Marrakech, it has one chair and a few drag lifts?as well as donkeys to take you up to terrain not served by technology...
...With the ski season off to a wonderfully snowy start, European resorts like Meribel, St. Moritz and Val d'Is?re are already full to bursting. But if you're ready for some real off-the-beaten-piste action this year, consider our crop of less predictable ski destinations...
Captain Anna McLoon led the way with a third-place finish in the 15K Classic and a new crop of freshman skiers made their Crimson athletic debuts in the Harvard Nordic and alpine ski teams’ first meet of the season at the St. Lawrence Carnival last weekend...
...winter term arrived. The 4-1-4 calendar, in which a one-month special term is sandwiched between two four-month regular terms, has been a huge success with students; it is an academic change of pace, and, to paraphrase Marx, they can go to class in the morning, ski in the afternoon and study in the evening. I like winter term because it encourages faculty members to broaden, as well as deepen, their education—to be students as well as scholars. During the regular semesters, there are opportunities to do this; faculty members teach required first-year...
...tier system--kids who can afford the extra luxury touches and those who can't. Even without a course in class differences, the students get it. Charity Jeffery, 21, says she ended up moving away from some friends when she settled into Seattle Pacific University's $14.4 million, ski-lodge-style Emerson Hall. "Emerson, right away, was referred to as the rich-kid dorm," she says. "I had to separate from friends who went to another dorm because they couldn't all afford to live in Emerson." Some schools take steps to avoid such rifts. Michigan State charges the same...