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Elsewhere, in letters published in newspapers, others have more explicitly equaled the United State wars in the Middle East with the actions of Nazi Germany during World War II. The Rocky Mountain Outlook says the I-hate-everythingAmerican contingent has gone over the top in equating U.S. actions with those of a German regime that was directly responsible for the murder of more than 12 million innocent civilians. Even CNN. which the Outlook believes is a propagandist for George W. Bush, would have noted the corralling of IraqiAmericans into cramped slums deprived of food, water or medical supplies were they occurring, says the newspaper. Nor has America's alternative media reported a Bush doctrine to wipe out all other nations on earth while singling out one particular race as the equivalent of rats. Nor, unlike the brownshirts of 1930s Germany, have police in U.S. cities pistol-whipped homosexuals who refuse to wear pink armbands everywhere they go. "Much like Canadians would be outraged to find a hammer and sickle spray painted on their vehicles while traveling south of the border, U.S. travelers should not have to accept being subjected to anti-American radicalism while traveling abroad," concludes the Outlook. "Such expression is uncivilized, hateful, and inappropriate." •Man stabbed to death in case of road rage tnjoi| a n:loxin(j Iiutuan fnnrli tcrliiinliir|ij inassiujr rluiir uc;[or<:' or a|utr ran; ' iNutrilional / Supplemental proflurls fivailnnlr Call now for an Appointment I Consultation 435.655.0420 Dr. Scan M Mann, D.C. Hours: By Appc. M-W-F Tues-Thurs. Sat. 1725 Sidewinder Dr. 9-2pm & 3-fipm |]-7pm 9-1 lam A Roundup of mm. torn other Western ski Canadian paper objects to comparisons to Nazis ' •^ • Direct Importers ^ ^ - W e Deliver ^ Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 31- September 2, 2005 suite 1011 OUH Left of 7-M> City, eating breakfast and reading a book. Words led to fists to a knife as Brooks stabbed Ash. Brooks had no record of previous arrests, nor were either drugs or alcohol involved. Response in the Truckee-Tahoe area was swift. "A local is used to being cut off by flatlanders and the like," wrote Jennifer Nelson of Reno in the Sierra Sun. "Please remember that a "local" address does not make you a local. Locals let things like that go, that's why we live here." •It's snare drum time for lowend housing VAIL, Colo. - Evidence is trickling in that the housing situation in Vail and the Eagle Valley is back to the situation that existed previous to 9/11 and the bust in speculation on tech stocks. "Tight as a drum" was the usual aphorism back in that day. Statistically, tight was defined as a vacancy rate of less than 1 percent. Then came the economic slowdown, when vacancy rates approached 20 percent. As the construction of speculative trophy homes slowed, hundreds of new housing units were constructed in the Vail, Avon and Eagle areas to the protests of some who warned of a glut. The glut is clearly gone. One. property manager of several affordable housing complexes told the Vail Daily that even in midAugust, his projects in the upper and mid-Eagle Valley are completely full. Also, there is evidence that prices for affordable housing will likely rise, because of a general increase in wages. •Cougar paws woman while she sits on deck DURANGO, Colo. - The physical wounds to Annette Hayes TRUCKEE, Calif. - One caused by a mountain lion several Truckee man is dead and another weeks ago have already healed, in jail as the result of what police but not so the emotional wounds. say was road rage. She was sitting on the deck of The incident occurred near their house near Durango at about Squaw Valley, on the highway sunset with her husband and dog between Truckee and Lake Tahoe. when she felt the paws of the aniWhat exactly happened was not mal on her shoulders. She jumped reported- but the Tahoe World up, screamed, and ran. The hussays that the offended driver, band looked to see what had hapTimothy George Brooks, 25, was pened, and saw the mountain lion so angry that he searched for a saunter away. half-hour for his protagonist, Although her wounds were Robert Lawrence Ash, 48. He light, she is being injected with a found him in a bagel shop in Tahoe vaccine just in case the lion was rabid. Wildlife officers told the Durango Herald that the mountain lion was attracted by the dog or. perhaps, confused her hair with that of an animal. "The incident is very unusual," said Pat Dorsey, of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. "If this cat had meant to do harm it could have and would have." While lion attacks on people remain exceedingly rare in Colorado, they arc not totally unknown. Two people have been killed by mountain lions in the last 15 years, one a small boy and the other an 18-year-old jogger. •Aspen Music Festival still breaking ground ASPEN, Colo. - With the possible exception of Banff. Aspen remains the model for four-season resorts in the West. It came by this reputation early but, as The New York Times noted in a review recently, continues to break ground. . A Chicago manufacturer, Walter Paepcke, arrived in the decaying mining town immediately after World War II along with a bunch of skiers, most of them from the 10th Mountain Division. Paepcke had in mind a summertime haven devoted to intellectual discourse and high-brow cultural attainment. Aspen, if occasionally distracted by drugs, greed, and arrogance, would seem to have lived up to Paepcke s dream. Physicists gather there to hike and talk theory. A design conference every summer draws international attention. And, not least, there's the renowned Aspen Music Festival, now in its 56th year and, says the New York newspaper in a recent review, still breaking new ground on old routines. The cause of The Times pleasing review was a production of a 1649 opera, "Giasone," updated to something of a "Saturday Night Live" romp of the late 1970s. The festival is held in the Benedict Music Tent, named after Fritz Benedict, a war veteran who returned afterward to create the 10th Mountain Trail from Vail to Aspen, among other achievements. •From the primal to the high tech in Telluride TELLURIDE, Colo. - From film festivals on Memorial Day to Labor Day, Telluride's summer schedule is notoriously crowded with festivals. Perhaps the most unusual, however, occur during mid-August. First in creation, was the Telluride Mushroom Festival. It is rooted in a celebration of fungi as a form of life with still unrealized good, beginning with eating but also continued to medicinal and even hallucinogenic values. Speakers lend to be brilliant, but are always zealous as they advise how to grow mushrooms, describe psychedelic mushrooms in the Andes, and extol use of mushrooms in cleaning up toxic waste dumps. Highlight of the weekend, at least for on-lookers. is a parade down Tdluride's main street on Saturday evening with people wearing mushroom-looking hats and other clothing thai suggests mushrooms, carrying signs praising mushrooms, all nf this accompanied by steady beating of a bass drum. Us primal and joyous and even perhaps a little rrutic, if you consider the phallic stupes of some fungi. During Ihe last two years, the festival has been expanded to include mushroom-laden dinners thereby engaging the local chefs. Still, the event remains more Mother Earth News than the Food and Wine Classic. At the other end of natural is the Telluride Tech Festival, which pays homage to past innovators of technology and probing current technology such as the future of space travel and the World Wide Web. 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