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...become an ice-rink impresario as well. The company created an ice show under license from the Disney company in 1981 and now has five touring companies. One of the shows, which stars Mickey Mouse, features 60 skaters (average age: 21), who perform scenes from such cartoons as Steamboat Willie and Fantasia. The skaters need 245 costumes, which contain "enough spandex to cover a football field," the promoters...
...Suddenly another skier, Howard Hidle, 31, came hurtling down the hill. He barreled into Kari, the force of the collision throwing him 20 ft. into a stack of ski racks. Kari died the next day. A week after that incident, Terrence Coghlan, 38, crashed into Russell Wittman, 8, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., shattering the boy's right...
Serious skiiers usually pass over Vail and head for Aspen or Steamboat Springs, which are much harder to reach, but reputed to offer a greater number of really challenging slopes...
Before reaching Del Rio, the road wanders through Roma, a steamboat terminus in the 19th century. The sheriff is out to lunch, but his office, on a bluff overlooking the river, is unlocked and unminded. Two hundred yards upriver a trio of illegal immigrants from Mexico wade across and disappear, just three more of the estimated 1 million to 2 million people who slip across the border each year...
...discoveries include parts of a 200-ft. stern-wheel steamboat, a 175-ft. wooden coal barge and another 140-ft. wooden barge. These relics excite historians because no large boats of the era, nor even their construction drawings, survive. Contends Archaeologist Leslie Stewart-Abernathy, who heads the project: "When we think about the Mississippi, we've got to get beyond the image of the river gambler and think about the guys who built the boats." Without them, there would have been a lot less life on the once romantic river...