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...once before. According to the Aspen Times, he has made more than 40 solo winter climbs of Colorado's Fourteeners (peaks taller than 14,000 ft.), bringing just water, candy bars and an ice ax--no cell phone, no GPS, not so much as a rope. In February, while skiing near Vail, Colo., Ralston was buried to his neck in an avalanche; a friend was completely submerged for 10 minutes. When an Aspen Times reporter came calling in March for a story on Ralston's climbing feats, the outdoorsman told the paper the ski trip...
...Bloody Marys, omelets and home fries. A ONE-HOUR WALK Maymont, 2201 Shields Lake Drive. This 100-acre estate offers wildlife, a Japanese garden and a nature center. A QUICK BITE Arby's Short Pump, 4250 Pouncey Tract Road. A fast-food restaurant decked out as a Pacific Northwest ski lodge, with margaritas, pad Thai with chicken, and burritos brought right to the table. A LOCAL TASTE The 17th Street Farmers' Market, 17th Street and Main Street. Locally grown vegetables and handmade crafts in an open-air market. A CULTURAL FIX Monument Avenue, between Roseneath Road and Lombardy Street...
...operations to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division, which makes popular Sea-Doo watercraft and Ski-Doo snowmobiles. "We have taken the measures to ensure we will be ready when the business-jet market picks up." But as Merrill Lynch analyst Ronald Epstein points out, Embraer doesn't depend on business-jet sales, and it has invested heavily in regional-jet R. and D. during...
...operations to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division, which makes popular Sea-Doo watercraft and Ski-Doo snowmobiles. "We have taken the measures to ensure we will be ready when the business-jet market picks up." But as Merrill Lynch analyst Ronald Epstein points out, Embraer doesn't depend on business-jet sales, and it has invested heavily in regional-jet R and D during...
...convention center through the ring of activists, the police sprayed gas and shot rubber bullets at people engaging in civil disobedience by linking themselves together with pipes and locks. That was the first violence, although the media focused more on young white guys in black ski masks who broke store windows later in the day. While I disapprove in principle of property destruction, I've often wondered whether we would have got as much press as we did without the Starbucks trashing...