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This year, the NCAA Skiing Championships will take place at Dartmouth, which McLoon says has a technical course with steep downhills and sharp turns. If she wants to place well, she will have to maintain her power while improving her quickness on downhills and turns. And if this week’s performance is any indication, she’ll be a top contender again...
...This is a continuation of Harvard’s predatory pattern of buying large stakes of closed-end funds at steep discounts for the sole purpose of liquidating for short-term profit,” she said. “That’s a tactic that we believe could jeopardize the future of the closed-end fund vehicle...
...mattress systems to help prevent bedsores. The market for bed surfaces and accessories alone is estimated to be $150 million a year and is growing 15% annually. "As the obesity epidemic grows, so does our revenue," says Lynne Sly, vice president of marketing at Kinetic Concepts. Rental rates are steep--up to $200 a day for a bed--but worth it. Before such products were available and widely covered by Medicare and private insurance, recalls Joe Sacco of Central Medical Supplies in Long Valley, N.J., "we'd see patients sleeping on top of plywood propped up on cinder blocks...
...central government said, 'Make your own money,'" he explains. "That was the start of a business opportunity." In 2002, Lost World guided some 500 foreign tourists on summer hiking and rafting expeditions. In spring and winter, the company and several other firms organize helicopter skiing and snowboarding down steep volcanoes as well as visits to indigenous reindeer herders by dogsled or snowmobile. Other companies specialize in bear hunting and trout fishing. Meanwhile, cruise ships ply the shores, scouting sea lion colonies and groups of rare Steller's sea eagles with their two-meter wingspans...
...arose, and the next day, sheets of rain reduced visibility to a meter or so. Some of us played cards in the main tent, but others curled up inside sleeping bags in a fetal position, trying to stay warm. The second day, we set off in drizzle, trekking up steep ice fields encrusted with ash. Soon it poured again. We crossed paths with a group of drenched Austrians. Only upon our return to Petropavlovsk did we discover that we had hiked seven hours through an 80-km/h storm. Nonetheless, the spectacle had been worth the effort: a vast crater licked...