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Chris Joosen, a snow ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, said Friday’s avalanche started after a group of three other hikers reached the steep, icy crest of the bowl-shaped ravine, up a 1,000-foot slope...
...wife Eve have another home in Warwick, England, near where she was raised. In California he divides his time between a house in Santa Monica and a property in Santa Barbara that includes a main house on top of a hill and his studio out of sight down the slope. Each day he walks the 150 steps down to the studio, he says, "and up. That's my exercise...
...result was a daring (by conservative Korean standards) $400 million worldwide ad campaign featuring a surreal dream world inhabited by sexy, angelic models and sleek Samsung products. In one cell-phone commercial, a skier carves his way down a pristine slope of powder that morphs into the flowing locks of a white-haired snow goddess. Kim made another smart move by sponsoring big-ticket events like the Salt Lake City Olympics, gaining quick, cost-effective global exposure. "I convinced the company we had to have a single message," says Kim. "We were the new kids on the block...
...four guards at the intersection directing traffic. Another man is on hand to make sure you don't miss the turn that leads to the garage. Five meters down the path, an attendant removes the ticket that the machine just generated and hands it to you. Head up the slope to the first floor and a woman will wave you on, just in case you missed the brightly lit No Vacancy sign over her head. (Every floor, whether full or not, gets its own guard.) When you exit, you get the same treatment in reverse: more floor guards waving...
...disrespect for Constitutional principles are the chilling possibilities of a speech code’s enforcement once restrictions are in place. Limits on expression are, by their very nature, open to a vast amount of interpretation. Prohibiting speech that one group deems insensitive presents a treacherous slippery slope for further censorship...