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...green with the flatness of the Alps once up the hill. Three of Crimson golfers missed putts inside of four feet after poor lags to the far-left pin position. But Radtke had perhaps the cruelest break of all. His drive was too perfect, stopping halfway down a slope, impeded by a burrowing animal hole, and leaving him with no chance to hit a shot with enough elevation to clear the rise in front...
...Columbia University, warned in Friday's Wall Street Journal that "if a nation's trading rights can be suspended simply because it refuses to accept another nation's idiosyncratic values, everyone could insist on morality-driven trade restrictions and the whole international trade system would head down a slippery slope." He also sagely urged us to examine whether "environmental regulations are really protectionism in disguise...
...tell its own history? If so, what would then result? For within each group, there are smaller units, each of which experiences history in a different manner, and within these units. But wait a minute! Is this what we want? Do we really want to follow down a slippery slope that leads to complete alienation? Muhammad argues, "I didn't come to Harvard University to teach you to hate white people." But what exactly are you doing, Muhammad If you teach us that there is no truth beyond each subjective conciousness, what hope remains for any communication between individuals...
This, of course, is something of a surprise to those who objected to the mission from the beginning. The standard line was that we would be in Somalia--and then the rest of the world--forever, as we plunged down the slippery slope of humanitarian aid. The mission's critics worried that a policy of sheer benevolence provides the U.S. with no clear stopping point. Sure, Somalia is better off now than before the intervention, but it still doesn't have a government, and people are still starving--but people are starving everywhere, and this argument could expand forever...
Backcountry skiers can substantially reduce their risk by heeding avalanche- center warnings, which rank the danger as low, medium, high and extreme. Forecasters routinely dig pits into targeted slopes to probe the condition of the snow below. Sometimes they even check the stability of the slope by carving ski-size slices through a test area, then standing or jumping on it. In general, south-facing slopes are less prone to avalanches because warmth from the sun promotes the bonding of the snowpack. Avalanches are also rare on slopes with inclines of less than 30 degrees. But there are exceptions...