Word: winterizer
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...Vancouver, which will host the Winter Olympics in 2010, has already had its debt rating downgraded because its Olympic Village has turned into a money pit that could end up costing taxpayers as much as $1 billion. As for the total price tag for Vancouver's Games, estimates vary from $1.6 billion to $5.5 billion. (Read "In Hard Times, Olympic Plans Go On a Budget...
...between 1980 and 2000 alone, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Some 350,000 people are estimated to live in the Green River Valley. Last January, because of torrential rains, the river rose 10 ft. higher than it ever had before and severely damaged the dam. This winter, with the likelihood of just as much rain, there will be some 35,000 residents in danger. If authorities try to make do with the crippled dam and it fails, "you're talking about a biblical wall of water swimming down the valley," says Kurt Triplett, interim executive of King...
Kevin Sprague and Stewart Richardson are freshmen at Harvard this year and have joined their siblings on the Crimson’s roster. In Kevin’s case, he will also be nordic skiing for Harvard with Cara in the winter...
...family would go up every winter to Gore Mountain in North Creek [New York] and ski,” Cara said. “not only downhill, but cross country skiing as well. Kevin and I are the youngest, so we always paired up for things...
...Everyone who ran cross country [in high school] also skied cross country in the winter,” Cara said, “so [Kevin and I] hung out with the same group of friends...