Word: skis
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Clinton seemed to enjoy nothing more than opposing the Republicans' more extreme proposals. He blocked initiatives to weaken wetlands protection, sell off federal forests to ski resorts, provide exemptions to the Clean Air Act for oil refineries and repeal the law that regulates pesticides in foods. But often these issues were merely deferred, not settled. Most visible is the case of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), 19.6 million acres of pristine tundra in northeast Alaska populated by vast herds of caribou and other wildlife. Clinton vetoed a 1995 bid by Republicans to open the refuge...
HOLY COMIC BOOKS! To appeal to young Catholics, the Vatican has approved a comic book about the life of Pope John Paul II, with emphasis on his soccer-playing, ski-slope-bombing youth in Poland. "He really wasn't a geek!" insists the comic's narrator, Grandpa. Comparisons with other comic-book heroes make us wonder why no one thought of this before...
...extensive article on the subject served as the basis for the screenplay). In a sequence of terrifying simplicity, Bowman, who was commissioned to build a dam on the outskirts of Tescala, is merely driving to work when he encounters a barricade and is randomly snatched by men in ski-masks, who hustle him off into the mountains. Thorne, representative of the London-based K & R (Kidnap and Ransom), is brought in to handle the case and offer assurances to Peter's wife, Alice (Meg Ryan...
...easily be met by the government, such as the release of some pro-Zapatista prisoners and the gradual withdrawal of armed forces from Chiapas, it seems likely that he will indeed go ahead and meet Fox in February, and this will be a historic moment. Whether he takes his ski mask off or not, we'll have to wait...
...hours Time it took him to ski 11,515 ft. to base camp, becoming the first to complete the descent...