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...World Cup moguls champion, Weinbrecht, 26, is heavily favored to capture the gold. Weinbrecht learned to ski on family vacations in Vermont and by age 10 had managed most of the expert slopes. That is when she decided she liked straying off the groomed trails and onto the rougher, steep stuff: moguls presented an extra challenge. "I started skiing bumps and I had fun," says Weinbrecht. "I felt a freedom of expression." Her teammate and training partner, Nelson Carmichael of Colorado, is expected to win a gold medal in the men's division. Two other types of free-style skiing...
...citizens, all tenants of rent control properties on Market and Windsor Streets, protested what they considered steep and frequent rent hikes handed down by the RCB recently...
...star- crossed 12-day journey to Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan. Planned last November as a routine diplomatic swing, the trip was hastily converted by White House officials into a full-blown trade mission after growing public dissatisfaction with Bush's handling of the recession triggered a steep drop in his approval ratings. In an effort to counter criticism that he cares more about foreign policy than the woes of unemployed Americans, Bush proclaimed the trip was about generating "jobs, jobs, jobs." As he explained in an interview just before his departure, "I'll do what I have...
...Monte, Calif., Julio Toruno, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who prospered in Southern California after World War II, watched the revenues from his print shop nose-dive 20% last year. "I don't have the opportunities my father had," he says. Strapped by high housing costs, steep taxes and a declining income, Toruno and his wife recently bought land in Nicaragua and plan to move there in the spring...
...being hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than a series of tenuous toeholds dug into sticky red clay. Several other equally steep but shorter climbs that followed made the six-mile journey a five-hour ordeal...