Word: skis
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...reportedly slipping tissues under her door when he heard her crying. He is said to have suggested the charity auction of her frocks last June. He also developed an early aversion to the press. At age 11, he had to be restrained from a fight with photographers on the ski slopes in Austria. And according to Richard Kay, a columnist for the Daily Mail who spoke to the princess the Saturday of the accident, William had called his mother that day, complaining that Buckingham Palace was making him "perform"--asking him to pose for the hated photographers at Eton, where...
...Island as recent successes, but problems still exist in some vital areas like Washington, because the city covers three area codes and its information systems don't "talk" to one another. There's still some work to be done. Earlier this year, a request for Squaw Valley, the famous ski resort in California where the 1960 Winter Olympics were held, produced incorrect numbers from all over the region. One operator finally got close, providing a number for the Olympic Village--something that has not existed for 30 years...
...William Pawluk, a former faculty member at Johns Hopkins, maintains that magnets stimulate red blood cells, which contain iron. "I placed a round bull's-eye magnet on a nurse's knee following a ski injury," he writes in a Web article. "The next morning she had a perfect bull's-eye pattern over her bruise...
Your article on the movement to control development in Colorado referred to the "flamboyant ex-hippies and ski bums of Crested Butte." With a resident population of 1,450, we may well have our share of these types, but in the interest of journalistic balance, it must also be reported that we have more than our fair share of fine families, college graduates, astute businesspeople and nature lovers, not to mention theater and the arts, pristine mountains, wildlife and wildflowers, and premier restaurants and shops. Our skiing ranks among the best in the world. Our summers are a foretaste...
...from taking Gunnison's water. It wasn't Lohr's eloquence on the subject that broke Trampe's reserve. It was the way Lohr got to the water-board meetings. Since the only road to Lohr's cabin in Gothic was closed from October to June, she had to ski out, an hour's trek to Mount Crested Butte, where she would jump into a Subaru wagon and drive an additional 45 minutes to Gunnison. After the meeting, she would snowshoe home in the dark. "Anybody who lives all winter in Gothic," says Trampe, "is either crazy or all right...