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Action starts on the slopes of the Middlebury Snow Bowl and the paths of the Rikert Touring Center at the Bread Loaf campus on Friday...
...conditions on the mountain were very icy, and it was a very hard snow that was falling," Myers said. "The actual falling snow did not make much of a difference during the race, because the course was just becoming icier as it got colder...
...utilities are not the only businesses using derivatives. In the winter of 1998, Montreal transportation-equipment giant Bombardier offered Midwestern buyers a $1,000 rebate on its Ski-Doo snowmobiles if a set amount of snow didn't fall that season. Bombardier backed the promise with a weather derivative, and with the help of other promotions, saw its Ski-Doo sales in the region jump 38% over the previous year's. "In a market driven 100% by weather, it's a little insurance for us and for the customer," says David Thompson, a Ski-Doo spokesman. This winter...
...show's finest pieces is by Annette Lemieux, this year a visiting lecturer in Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies department. "Decline," 1989, is a monumental, sepia-toned print of a pastoral scene. Recalling vintage travel posters, a snow-capped mountain ascends in the background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where...
...should have known they were together before he said anything because when they were standing by the salad bar, she put her hand on his hip and everything was quiet, like the first snow...