INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA has selected Steamboat Springs, Colo., for the men's and women's skiing championships in 2010. It will be the sixth time the NCAA championships have been held in Steamboat Springs, and the first time since 1996. The NCAA says ...

10 km and 15 km Combined Skiing - Orlando Sentinel

Skating on a frozen lake was fun. So was taking a dogsled ride, trekking to an ice-encrusted gorge and learning how to cross-country ski beneath snowcapped evergreens. The sheer variety of winter activities in the upstate Lake Placid area, combined ...

Why sterling is getting a real pounding - Times Online

If the exchange rate is the measure of a nation's economic virility, then Britain is the skinny kid getting sand kicked in his face. Sterling has taken a severe beating in the past few weeks as international investors and currency speculators dump ...

Decorated US Army veteran looks for medals - International Herald Tribune

BEIJING : Melissa Stockwell has her share of coveted medals, like a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. She was awarded those after her left leg was blown off almost 4 1/2 years ago as a U.S. Army second lieutenant during a roadside bombing while on a ...

Russia: Kremlin wins war but faces new battle as investors scramble ... - Guardian Unlimited

For Russia's leadership, it seemed everything had gone right. In three weeks, the country had invaded Georgia, crushed its military and defied international opinion by recognising the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Western threats ...