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...their coach, Marina Zueva, and two emergency medical technicians tried to resuscitate Grinkov, Wylie raced over. "I touched his skate to say a prayer for him," said Wylie. "But his leg was limp." Within four minutes an ambulance arrived to take Grinkov to the Adirondack Medical Center. For nearly an hour, Dr. Joshua Schwartzberg and the hospital staff worked to revive him, but Grinkov never responded, and he was pronounced dead at 12:28 p.m. When Schwartzberg gave Gordeeva the news, she sobbed on the floor, with Zueva at her side. She then asked if she could see her husband...
...even reasonable regulations itch like wool long johns. Take the predicament of 122,000 year-round residents of New York State's 6 million-acre Adirondack Park. The park was to be "forever wild," and the state's 22-year-old Adirondack Park Agency regulates growth. But it also generates fury--expressed by barn burning, tire slashing and vehicle shooting, in addition to much heated talk. One of the angriest is Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting...
Arietta, New York, is the sort of town satellite-TV companies dream about. Located 70 miles northwest of Albany, in the midst of the Adirondack Mountains, the tiny community (pop. 301) has no traffic lights and no full- time doctor. Many telephones are still on party lines, and the nearest , supermarket is 50 miles away. Television too has largely bypassed the town. Arietta is too remote and unprofitable to be wired for cable, and a good antenna brings in only two or, at most, three stations. Between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. during the summer, because of solar interference, even...
Annual summer job: Building wilderness trails in the Adirondack mountains...
...Colorado, where environmental concerns rank right up there with ski fever, a company called ReeSki is mining profits from discarded non-biodegradable skis: Adirondack-style chairs