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...traditional powers of skiing - Switzerland, Austria and Italy - all this freestyle and half-pipe stuff is strictly New World. A course, a clock and a mountain are challenge enough. The Austrians have owned Alpine skiing lately, but the men's team has been devastated by injuries, most significantly to Hermann (the Herminator) Maier, a double gold- medal winner at Nagano who shattered his leg in a motorcycle accident last summer. Five other top Austrians are also on the shelf. Yet Austria is so deep it can easily claim gold through Stephan Eberharter, currently the No. 1 ranked skier on tour...
Though the racers accept the inherent dangers of their sport, some think that safety could be improved. "If the safety was in place correctly, that kind of stuff wouldn't happen," says America's Picabo Street, who won silver in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer and gold in the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Games. The FIS, recognizing that skis are getting faster and that skiers could fly beyond the limits of the nets, regularly recommends modifying courses by shaving the lips of jumps and setting gate controls before jumps to slow the racers down...
Cisco has come under the lens, as have a slew of other tech companies, for its use of so-called pro forma earnings, which may leave out recurring expenses and are often referred to as "earnings before all the bad stuff." Last year Cisco asked investors to ignore a $2.2 billion charge for inventory loss, which most accountants consider to be a normal business expense rather than something extraordinary...
...Still, the first day of the conference had good stuff on the world economy and the "Clash of Civilizations" thesis, and, I'm told, on artificial intelligence. To an extent, the week got off to something of unexpected start. Every pudding needs a theme, and most conferences do, too. But the idea that is emerging, quietly, as the guiding text of Davos-in-New York is not, I suspect, the one that most people in the Waldorf-Astoria - to say nothing of those outside - would have anticipated...
...It’s good because it lessens a lot of hassles,” Shah said. “Even more so on weekends because the parties usually go on until after 1 a.m. and there’s stuff afterwards...