Word: terrains
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...Resort, will charge only $39 for its all-day adult lift ticket (its rival asks $59). A six-person express lift will take skiers from the base to above Timberline. Moonlight's 3,050 ft. of vertical descent, including 1,200 ft. of inbound hike-up terrain, is on a par with the long drops of Park City, Mammoth, Killington and Deer Valley. --By Pat Dawson
Bush aides think the advantage of relying more on locals is that Arabic speakers who know the people and the terrain would do a better job uncovering threats in advance than Americans. "We understand the minds of these killers," says Lieut. Colonel Salam Zajey, commander of Baghdad's al-Bayaa police station, where 15 people died in one of last week's bombings. "We lived with them for 20 years. We trained them. That should help us in fighting them...
...closed meeting of House Republicans last week. At the same time, the 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls are landing blows on national security, an issue that was supposed to be unavailable to the opposition. And the addition of General Wesley Clark only gives the Democrats more credibility on this terrain. Though the G.O.P. foot soldiers support George W. Bush with a fervor not seen since Ronald Reagan's presidency--the campaign has raised close to $80 million so far--they are calling on the White House to start fighting back. "It's 10 to 1," says a Bush adviser...
...politics quickly proved a trickier terrain for the telegenic antiwar general than even the battlefields of Yugoslavia. Only a day after his announcement, Clark told reporters on his campaign plane that if he had been in Congress last fall, he probably would have voted for the resolution authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq. In a single sentence he had undermined the rationale for his whole candidacy--at least for those who saw him as Howard Dean with stars and a war record. Clark seems to have realized this himself, for the next day he reversed course. "I would...
...ready for anything. It can start to rain buckets in an instant, and even tough hiking boots cannot protect you from roots, stones, slick trails and steep ascents. Trying to make it to camp—hours from a phone or an ambulance—and persevering through tricky terrain, the group has to calmly accommodate the unexpected...