He was fortunate that two of the people who trained him in his apprenticeship were interested in sport and consequently turned a blind eye so that football became something he could "slope off" to train in the afternoon.
On the one hand, Telluride is a very affluent town with high real estate prices, on par with places like Aspen and Deer Valley, and as a result it has all the support industry, like dining, spas, services, and off slope activities like heli-skiing and dog sledding.
In a big blow for Royal Dutch Shell, the Obama administration has blocked the drilling of exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean off the North Slope of Alaska until 2011 at the earliest.
The fuel on board the rig is used to power equipment and is not the result of the drilling operations Shell conducted off the North Slope, on the opposite side of the vast state from where the Kulluk now rests.
Shell began work on its planned well in the Chukchi Sea, about 90 miles off the Alaskan North Slope, on Sunday.
The rig had been working in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's North Slope.
As much as 150, 000 gallons of ultra low sulfur diesel and approximately 12, 000 gallons of other petroleum products are on board the Kulluk, which had been working in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's North Slope, until October.
The prospect of unsettled weather on the first two days at least suggests that Amir and the wily Mohammad Asif will still be a handful with the famous Lord's slope assisting them to move the ball off the seam as well, making it vitally important that England's batsmen knuckle down and be prepared to graft.
As he got ready to hit his putt, it moved again, this time off the green and down the slope.
But he also received perhaps the biggest break of the tournament when his shot into the par-5 13th spun back off the green and was headed down the slope into the tributary of Rae's Creek when it suddenly stopped, a blessing from a day spent in the rain.
The town of maybe a few hundred people is locked in a self-sustaining cycle of grief after a school bus slides off the road one morning, careens down a slope, and sinks in an icy lake.
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Lee Westwood got off to a terrible start Thursday when his approach shot ended up at the bottom of such a slope on No. 1.
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