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...live up to her sisters’ legacies. “Going to boarding school made me very independent,” she explains. Simmons also took a year off in between high school and college, during which she worked for a Manhattan advertising agency, taught skiing at a Vail resort, and then spent three months backpacking through Europe. “Being on my own and supporting myself gave me the perspective of being an independent individual,” she says. “Sure, my sisters went here, but I am own person...
...open secret at Enron that the company was all but a "house of cards that will fall," as a Texas energy executive attending an industry conference in Vail, Colo., a year ago groused to a senior Enron v.p. His dinner companion's startling reply: "You're more right than you know." Even people who believe that Lay was not involved in the dubious dealings of Skilling, Fastow and chief accounting officer Richard Causey concede that Lay had laid the foundation by encouraging Enron's ruthless, winner-take-all culture. A band of cocky, inexperienced young M.B.A.s was left alone...
Along with hundreds of other White River trails, Red Creek is endangered--or close to being saved, depending on how you look at it. The 2.3 million-acre White River National Forest is Colorado's biggest playground, encompassing everything from the popular resorts of Vail and Aspen to alpine meadows populated only by elk. This year 31 million people are expected to visit, up 10% from just four years ago, fed by Colorado's booming popularity. Every 15 years the U.S. Forest Service must create a new land-use plan for the region, and the draft released...
...years after another radical environmental group, Earth First!, renounced the use of violence. Since then, ELF members and sympathizers have waged a stealth war against "those who profit from the destruction of the natural environment." The attacks include a $12 million fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; a $500,000 fire at a timber-company headquarters in Medford, Ore.; and another that destroyed a partly built home in Bloomington, Ind., that the ELF said was part of a development that threatened the local water supply...
...etiquette, interest heightens. "Culture is so different here," Heredia explains, ticking off taboos. "Keep the radios down after 10 p.m. Watch your language in the park on Sundays. Don't follow a girl down the block--she might have you arrested for stalking." Says Enrique Arvizu, 24, a Vail laundry worker: "All these things...