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Heading into the lodge for a midday hot cocoa? Adorable. Plan on leaving your Nidecker Swarovski-studded snowboard in the rack alongside the “normal” boards? Better not. Have a portable vault handy instead.
Actually, why the hell are you even snowboarding on one of these things in the first place? …Â Details
Each weekend this winter the 20-something founders of Bean Snowboards have trekked across New England, often in a borrowed bus, setting up their display tent at ski areas and proudly spreading the word that their boards are “Made in Boston.â€
Indeed, their two products, “The Commonwealth†and “The Violator,†are handcrafted in Brighton inside a rented, 400-square-foot cinder block garage – the same type of humble origins that launched big name companies like Apple and YouTube, not to mention Burton snowboards.
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Lebanese ski racer Georges Salameh, who provided a urine sample containing traces of cocaine during last month’s Alpine skiing world championships in France, blames his positive test on the work of mysterious saboteurs.
“I have enemies in Lebanon who may have pushed people to do this,” Salameh said. “I never used these drugs. I don’t know what happened.”…Â Â Details