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...nearby office, a man wielding a knife -- a man he had no opportunity to identify -- forced the door open and pushed him into the passenger's seat. A second man jumped into the back and put a noose around his throat. Blindfolded, Weinstein was driven to a secluded slope underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and forced into the muddy cave 8 ft. underground where he would spend the next 293 hours. A Marine veteran who still plays singles tennis three times a week, Weinstein was not afraid of the physical challenge...
Japan's pleasure domes enclose a beach and a ski slope...
...office 9.5% by 1996. The enforcement of leisure time, however, is likely to leave many Japanese puzzled. In a recent survey of Japanese, more than 40% said they wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they had a month-long vacation. Seagaia, like an enormous indoor ski slope just outside Tokyo that opened two weeks ago, plans to profit by showing them how easy it is to enjoy themselves...
...world's largest indoor ski slope has no up-close competition from nature -- and that explains the excitement over it. SSAWS, which stands for Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Snow, is a $366.9 million building shaped like a giant mechanical centipede whose highest hump reaches 25 stories. On opening day two weeks ago, hundreds of summer skiers, eager to escape muggy Tokyo, lined up for the first runs down the slopes. Regular, outdoor Japanese slopes are notoriously crowded -- and SSAWS is likely to be as well when it is fully operational. However, SSAWS is only 30 min. from Tokyo Station...
...mischance, there is nothing useful to say. This is not because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...