Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the poor run that afternoon, Killington does offer some excellent skiing for all levels. The only problem is that it is so spread out. Experts will be more than challenged at "Bear Mountain," and there is plenty of terrain for beginners as well. Of course, some people might find the commercialized scene and number of bars in the Killington area a draw back. An hour and a half north lies Sugarbush, with fewer bars and singles but an equivalent amount of snow and great trails...
...STUCCO RANCHES in an exclusive area north of San Diego looked just as I remembered--huge mansions surrounded by acres of rocky terrain, orange groves, horse corrals and swimming pools. In the town center I saw a dozen real estate brokers trying to peddle these multi-million dollar insulated retreats, where one never has to contemplate neighbors or lawn mowing or noise. But this time I saw more than just the ranches--I found what makes the luxurious lifestyle possible...
With the Christmas wrapping off, the compact motorbikes with balloon tires must have sent visions of roughriding adventure revving through tiny heads. But youngsters who roar off on their shiny new all-terrain vehicles had better watch out: the three- and four-wheelers can be fatal...
...very different kind of fieldwork in big-city hotels and on the lecture circuit. The reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
Economists have traditionally shied away from theorizing about the public arena, ceding the terrain to political scientists. But not James McGill , Buchanan. He reasons that politicians and public servants act primarily to promote their own self-interest, not to serve some higher public good. They behave, he declares, much like consumers in a marketplace. For work stemming from that basic theory of political economy, Buchanan, 67, last week won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Economic Science. The Tennessee-born professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., is the 14th American to win the economics award since it was first...