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Joey, 36, a loader at a truck terminal in Brooklyn, got his supply from a man wearing a ski mask at a bustling "drug market" five minutes from work. "I'd go during my breaks and at lunch, picking up four to eight nickel [$5] bags at a time," he says. "If it was payday, I could run through my whole check [$515]." Joey, now in a drug-abuse treatment program, says he is "trying to find a place where there is no dope...
Mahre, until last week, had not won a race all season, though his showings in each of the three skiing disciplines-slalom, giant slalom and downhill-added up to the leading point total for the four-month series. Winning his two giant slaloms pleased him more than clinching the Cup. "I don't know, individual races just mean more to me," he said. "You don't think of the Cup until afterward. The races are the fun of it, and I ski...
Their father, Dave Mahre, mountain manager of the ski area at White Pass, gave each child a set of skis and a sense of adventure. Last year the news of Phil's second World Cup reached his father by shortwave radio as Mahre, 55, dangled from a rope on the side of Mount Everest. "Fortunately," Phil continued, "I was gifted, and I also had a twin brother who pushed me in the sense that I always wanted to beat him. And yet, at the same time, his victories were sort of my victories too. It's hard...
...high school football player, Mahre enjoyed the crashes. On the night before the last race of the 1981 World Cup, when he had to finish among the top three to become America's first champion, Mahre played three hours of basketball despite friends' hysterical warnings. No ski coach has ever been able to dissuade either Mahre brother from motocross racing in the offseason. "A lot of people say I'm crazy," Phil said, "but I think all these things are games, and games...
...Fresh" is the ideal now. It stands, figuratively, for stylish, but it literally means clean, new, right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman...