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Perhaps the most confusing event for me was the "Super G." When I first saw it, I though it was another tribute album to Notorious B.I.G., but it turns out to be a type of ski race--the super giant slalom...
...Ski jumping? Have two guys face each other and go at the same time...
...President recently declared much of California a major disaster area due to massive storms that have caused roughly $300 million worth of damage to more than 20 counties; Western ski resorts are suffering from a lack of snow and the Northeast is experiencing one of its most pleasant winters in recent memory (today's Nor'Easter notwithstanding). If El Niño could be explained and understood, it would be possible to blame or praise it; nonetheless, most meteorologists in the country as well as most civilians are using El Niño as their justification for current trends...
...Pounds of Canadian bacon the 16-member U.S. ski team plans to eat at the Nagano Olympics...
Bloodied snow led to purple rage in Italy last week after an EA-6B U.S. Marine warplane threading through a mountain valley at treetop level severed a ski resort's lift cable, sending 20 people to their death. "The skies are not for the most powerful or for the most aggressive," the Rev. Lorenzo Casarotti told mourners in the Dolomite mountain village of CAVALESE. "They are for everyone." The Pentagon will pay each family $5,000 for burial costs, and the crew could face a court-martial. Residents and Italian officials said that earlier complaints about low-flying military planes...