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Show Tursdav Jaiiuarj 7. IW7 t ,1 1 Il-- I fry atTh' By GWEN FLORIO Newspapers DENVER Boldly venturing across the state line, deep into enemy territory, a Utah ski resort has put up a billboard in Denver just outside Denver International Airport. The message from Utah's Snowbird Ski Resort is as clear as the plain block lettering: "If you were (in Utah), you would be (skiing! ... 29 miles from the Salt Lake Int'l Airport." retorted "Yeah," Lynn Bronikowski. spokeswoman for a Colorado ski industry group, "but you'd be in Utah." In Colorado, the nearest ski resort is about 70 miles away from Utah's billboard. "One of the major benefits of skiing in Utah is that our resorts are so close," said Kim Peterson. - Ht DA.1LV Hf.KA.ID. Provu. I tali Faj A7 Utah, Colo, ski resort wars heat up Knignt-Ridd- W 1 spokeswoman for Snowbird. "We don't really intend to pose any tension." Coloradans took offense anv-ay. "It truly is a powder keg." huffed Bronikow ski. of Colorado Ski Country USA. an industrv group that briefly considered renting billboard space on Interstate 70 westbound, just past Utah's. "But the beauty of Colorado is. there aren't that many billboards." she said. "We couldn't find one." Disc jockeys at a Denver radio station. KYGO. threw snowballs at the Utah billboard, then ottered listeners a contest, in which all of the correct answers were "Colorado." First prize: ;irline and lift tickets and lodging to any of Colorado's ski resorts. The booby prize: a trip to Utah. The same station also tried ski-triv- 3.3 million skiers. to get country unsuccessfully singer Reba McEntire. w ho recently injured her knee skiing in Utah, to come to Colorado and lest that stale's allegedly softer powder, marketing director Mark Etchason said. Even if all this seems humorous, it's serious business in the two states, both heavily dependent on tourism revenue, much of it from Although skiing. Colorado is by far the more popular of the two. but Utah wants to change that. Even though the ski industry has been flat for 15 years. Colorado's ski lesorts have invested S50 million a year for the last decade, an amount that jumped to SHK) million in That has helped produce a $3.2 billion-a-yea- r industry with 11 million skiers, main more than Utah's w w T t as close." At the heart of Peterson's argument is the way Colorado's ski areas are spread around the stale. "mm mr numbers d 19. r its sheer dwarf Utah's. Colorado's industry has grown only 2 percent or 3 percent a year, which "is not stellar.' said John Frew, piesident of Colorado Ski Country USA. Maybe not. but it's growth thai Utah would be more than happy to experience. Utah is counting on tlie 2002 Winter Oly mpics. scheduled for Salt Lake City, to help But n'.s not content to wait that long to get skiers to defect from Colorado. S( it has launched a cainp;gn t( stress the Utah ski industry's bet points and to offer some compliments to its neighbor. "Colorado is beautiful." Peterson said, "but its areas just aren'-- t N. AP Photo Fire drill Against the wall of a high-ris- e condominium, members of a group to preserve the traditional firefighting, technique perform acrobatics on bamboo ladders at the New Year's drill in Tokyo Monday. The country's top firefighting techniques, as well as the traditional skills, were displayed to the public during the annual event. day. By a 2 vote in cases from California and Hawaii, the justices reinstated the sentences of two 7-- drug dealers. In an unsigned decision, the nation's highest court said that neither federal law nor the Constitu- tion's protection against double jeopardy bars judges f rom considering conduct of which defendants were acquitted. Although both cases invoked federal prosecutions, the court's discussion of constitutional law would apply to state prosecutions as well. In other decisions Monday, the court: Turned away a key procedural dispute in Dow Corning Corp.'s efforts to deal with the tens of thousands of health claims against it by women who used its silicone breast implants. The justices let stand a federal appeals court ruling that allowed Dow Corning to lawsuits transfer breast-implafrom around the nation to a federal bankruptcy court in Michigan. Refused to let New York wquire some prison inmates seeking extra privileges to attend Alcoholics Anonymous programs that ?LSk them to believe in some higher power such as God. The justices turned down state prison officials' nt argument that the program is not an unlawful government endorsement of religion. Rejected the Republican Parh challenge to federty's al rules requiring political committees to encourage greater disclosure by campaign contributors. In the prison sentences case, the justices noted that an acquittal "does not prove that the defendant is innocent: it merely proves the existence of a reasonable doubt as to his guilt." . "We therefore hold that a jury's verdict of acquittal does not prevent the sentencing court from considering conduct underlying the acquitted charge, so long as that conduct has been proved by a preponderance of the evidence." Monday's decision said. In dissent. Justice John Paul Stevens said the decision brings about a "perverse result." "The notion that a charge that cannot be sustained by proof beyond a reasonable doubt may give rise to the same punishment as if it had been so proved is repugnant." he said. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy also dissented, say ing in a separate opinion that the court should have allowed lawyers in the case to submit more briefs and argue in person before issuing a decision. Sentencing courts generally are tree to take into account defendants' conduct other than that for which they were convicted, what courts called "uncharged conduct." tile drug. prohibits prosecution of peowho ple possess marijuana if they have a valid piescriplion for the dug and are using it for the treatment of cancer or glaucoma. !. The law also bats the prosecution of doctors or pharmacists for dispensing or distiibuling marijuana lor medical purposes. Because there is no way to fill a Virmarijuana prescription, the at preventing ginia law was aimed Arrest or providing a defense lor pHtienls who might be anesled lor possessing marijuana, said Dr. William Regelson. a professor of medicine at the Medical College of Yjrgmia Hospitals. Neither Regelson nor the state Department of Health Professions knew if any Vngmia doctors have ptescrilKd marijuana since the law was approved. Virginias medical marijuana if any. xception has had little, cral imoact. A computer search by h til I lie Richmond ana state irgmia Supreme Court ourt of Apx;als cases, and opin i; It Times-Dispatc- a r h 3 i f free-speec- Medical use of marijuana legal in Virginia since 79 New RICHMOND. Va. ( AP) laws in California and Arizona legalizing marijuana for medicinal use prov oked a strong rebuke f rom tlie White House yet a similar measure passed in Virginia nearly 20 years ago has gone largely unnoticed. The seminal law was passed by Virginia lawmakers in 1979 as a pan of an overall el fort to loosen lale laws against possession and Jisli ihutioii of small amounts of ,M v f Latitude in sentencing is expanded by court WASHINGTON (AP) Judges may lengthen the sentences of convicted defendants based on charges of which they were acquitted, the Supreme Court ruled Mon- ' 4 ' ions from the slate aitoi ney general, did not turn up any citations of the law. A spokesman for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration also was unfamiliar with Virginia's pioneering legislation. "I don't know any thing about the law." DUA spokesman Van D. Cjuarles said Friday. "We're looking at California and Arizona as if they're setting the pace and we find that Virginia has similar laws already." The Clinton administration has that doctors in California warh and Arizona could lose prescription-writing privileges or face criminal charges for recommending the drug. The doctors also could be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid programs. In November, voters in both stales approved mcasuies legalizing marijuana for medicinal use In Arizona. Proposition 2W allows doctors to prescribe the drug to ct ideal l ill patients if two licensed physicians agree on the use and oiler research on its appropriateness. California's Proposition 215 decriminalizes possession of mariif juana by patients and its use is recommended by a physician. 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