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...Why Fourth Lake is popular for fishing, the surrounding area of Old Forge offers winter sports, and there are trails nearby for hiking and biking....
...And once, sometimes twice, a year I go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, because I think preventative medicine is better than corrective....
...With a placid lake and a few kegs of beer, the fire camp in Poland seemed like a benign setting. But the weather was hot and dry, and already the fire was not conforming to humans’ plans....
...One: there is no general ageing trend in male sport. Two: many of the best players in various sports are old. What explains this?...
...Need to know: business The appetite among investors to buy into elite sports assets is still strong....
...Hayes begins his quest in the rare books room of the New York Academy of Medicine....
...Habitas Bacalar, built along the lake of the same name in Quintana Roo, Mexico, opens next month....
...He said that sport — like the sea and medicine — had taught him modesty: “I lost more competitions than I won.”...
...Without the polo arena, the lake has been freed for more accessible activities, with more space for cross-country skiing, skating and walking....
...Just half an hour from the property is Lake Placid, which hosted the 1932 and the 1980 Winter Olympics, and still boasts bobsleigh, skeleton and ice-skating facilities....
...After Facebook bought a 10 per cent stake for $5.7bn in April, Jio sold stakes to everyone from Silver Lake and KKR to Mubadala....
...The packed itinerary still allows time for a safari at the nearby Lake Nakuru game reserve....
...Similar experiences are also available at Lake Placid, New York (whiteface.com) and Lillehammer, Norway (olympiaparken.no) Ski jump Arguably the most terrifying of Olympic sports, ski jumping is usually...
...More enticing is water buffalo, radish and frozen yoghurt with hibiscus powder, while the Lake Titicaca trout paired with a glass of Cepa de Oro Vischoqueña is sublime....
...Who can forget the outfits of winter competitors such as the British figure skater Robin Cousins, a gold medallist in Lake Placid in 1980, with his flawless triple-jumps and his glam-rock flares?...
...In his new book on cheating in sport, The Edge, political scientist Roger Pielke Jr cites a study in the journal Sports Medicine estimating that between 14 and 39 per cent of elite athletes dope....
...The 1950s have a reputation now as an era of placid innocence, which was not how they felt at the time — in the fearful west, the trampled east or indeed the increasingly restive Third World....
...The best part of Mr Brûlé’s story — I must say — is that he picked Lake Placid 1980 as his most memorable Games. I was there too....
...The 1932 Winter Olympics, only the third cold-weather version of the Games, were held at New York’s Lake Placid....
...That makes judgment of risk — something the placid, slow-speaking Mr Hanif says he “can see happen in slow motion” — central to his project....
...My ideal summer day would be spent on the shores of one of Berlin’s lakes....
...(Financial Times) The private equity owner of Catalina Marketing has received bids for the retail database operator from rival funds Silver Lake and Berkshire Partners, according to people familiar with...
...There are still a few Tibetan families living near the lake, like 25-year-old Tsengbala, who sports sunglasses, a black leather jacket and a purple Nike hat....
...What I’ve discovered is to use comedy as a tool to sugar the pill of medicine that’s worth taking.” Our starters have arrived and he takes a forkful of tuna....
...The foundation works to promote the use of sign language, and to support sport, children’s cancer hospitals, and a variety of aid projects in Asia and Africa....
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