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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Friday: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA One hundred and fifty years of newspapers contain stories large and small about the achievements, failures and foibles of the people of a region. Michael Jackson: Josh dickey and Frank Baker are off, but monitoring and on cell. Jesse Washington is your first contact; he and John Antczak are running the desk from Los Angeles. Backing them up in New York are Dolores Barclay and Dave Bauder. There's one more reason to grumble about high gasoline prices: They could be prolonging the recession. In the long history of winter sports in the Sierra Nevada, there are a handful of legends. One of them was John "Snowshoe" Thompson, who carried the mail across the mountains on skis in the 19th century. Another was Nic Fiore, who taught more than 130,000... Nic Fiore, the personable and charismatic ski instructor who graced the slopes of Badger Pass for more than 50 years, was remembered Wednesday as a man who will have a permanent place in the history of Yosemite National Park. Fiore is said to have taught more than 100,000 people to ski at Badger Pass over a 50-year period. Nic Fiore, one of America's most influential ski instructors and a legendary figure at Yosemite's Badger Pass ski area, where he taught skiing for more than 50 years, has died. He was 88. A run on hotels, elastic bandages, gasoline and carbohydrate-rich pasta last weekend filled the coffers of local merchants with millions of dollars. The economy's tailspin gave way to a more controlled descent in the spring, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties. Still, troubles persist in California related to the housing bust and in the Midwest, pounded by manufacturing layoffs. |
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