Word: aspens
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...trek in 1967: "We got lost. A bear ate our food, and it rained 11 out of 12 days." But Cowden recalls the trip joyously. Coping with blisters, bears and soggy meals somehow adds texture to the chill of windy mountaintops and the sight of wildlife roaming in ghostly aspen groves. Most of all, scouting's unstylish traditions of group discipline and self-reliance provide a powerful social cement. "Scouting comes down generations, from my father to my brother to me," says 501's Morgan Browning, 14. "It sticks with...
...Senator sees the G.O.P.: "The Grey Poupon crowd, the Gucci-poochie- coochie shoe-wearing, Mercedes-driving, polo-playing, Jacuzzi-soaking, Perrier-drinking, Aspen-skiing, ritzy-rich, high-society Republicans who eat broccoli." Leaving out George Bush...
Bush flew to Aspen, Colo. to deliver a speech appealing for keeping America strong enough militarily to respond to terrorism, hostage taking and "renegade regimes and unpredictable rulers...
...Doris Duke came through with bail. For his involvement, Khashoggi, a man of multiple houses but no fixed address, was saddled with bail of $110 million -- and an electronic ankle band that keeps prosecutors informed of his whereabouts as he roams from smart Manhattan boites to the slopes at Aspen...
...This was really the great 'aha' moment," MacCready says. Stopping along the way in Aspen to visit Murray Gell-Mann, who was vacationing there, MacCready announced that he had figured out how to win the Kremer prize. "He was that definite," Gell-Mann recalls...