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However, if you feel you just have to get some real skiing in, try Buttermilk Mountain. It has the shortest black run in the world, the "Wall of Death." Spend ten seconds going straight downhill, head straight back up the adjoining slope before you fall and then tell your friends back home how you survived a black slope...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aspen, Colorado Is For Stars and Skiers | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

This may seem like a great loss considering the moral bankruptcy of the army's discrimination, but if Harvard starts to pick and choose what kink of money students can use to pay their tuition, they will engage in a slippery slope that will leave a lot of us paying our money to other institutions...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: What Else Can They Do? | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

WHERE: PARK SLOPE ARMORY, BROOKLYN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classical Spellbinder | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...anxiety behind the phrase "family values" may derive from an intimation of such breakdown, a flicker of the instant when the moral slippery slope may swivel like a trapdoor to right angles. Americans see the inner Ik all the time these days. They glimpsed it out of the corner of the eye for a moment when an 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was abandoned at the dog track in Post Falls, Idaho, last March. A cautionary scene -- and it turned into a morning talk-show joke: "It's dog-track time for you, doofus!" the host with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...ground combat. "The air force will argue that to remove the risk of < losses, they would like to take out some if not all of the Iraqi air defenses again," says Colonel Andrew Duncan of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "Then you're on the slippery slope to escalation." But the allies may have concluded that their best tactic is to squeeze Saddam between rebellious Kurds to the north and hostile Shi'ites to the south. (See related story on page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Fly, You Die | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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