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...Kitzbühel, Austria. It has been less than two weeks since Canadian Downhill Racer Dave Irwin spun out of control off the steep course in Wengen, Switzerland, slamming into the hillside at 60 m.p.h., cracking a rib and suffering a severe brain concussion. Despite the injuries and a steady downpour, though, Irwin has been working out here. "I took a couple of free runs today," he says. "Straight down, nonstop. " He will be back out every day from now on. "There's nothing a doctor can do for me," he says. "The cracked rib still hurts a little...
...kitchen alone could service a community. First you are buzzed in at the gate, then you drive up a winding driveway until you come to The House. The front is part of a residential neighborhood of old homes while at the back there is a terrace with a steep drop to downtown. On one side you are blinded by the gleaming lights of the metropolis while on the other you are seeped in the peace and stillness of suburbia...
Though they have not yet reached the epidemic level of medical-malpractice cases, suits against lawyers are increasing at a steep rate. Companies insuring lawyers estimate that the number of claims has doubled in the past four years. The current issue of Juris Doctor reports that "warnings are out for every attorney." Predicts Fred Grabowsky, counsel to the District of Columbia bar: "This is the next growth area of the law. Once the doctors have been picked clean, the lawyers will be hauled in. People won't let any professionals get away with mistakes...
...since World War I, when some of northern France's finest vineyards were turned into bloody battlefields, has the French champagne industry seen bigger trouble. Having grown steadily and sometimes spectacularly since the mid-1950s, sales of the French bubbly have been in a steep slide. Last year French vintners were horrified when champagne sales dropped 16% below the 1973 peak of 125 million bottles, to 105 million bottles. This year sales may fall below 100 million bottles for the first time since 1969. "We're not a product of primary necessity," says Jean-Michel Ducellier, head...
...about halfway down the sheer steps from a pagoda towering over Peking's Summer Palace, which was the breathtaking extravagance of the Ching dynasty's Dowager Empress Ci xi; she diverted $50 million worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home to the Rockies. "This would be a good ski slope-there's a nice turn down there," he mused. He would have been better off in Vail. What he accomplished in Peking could have been done by Mailgram...