Copper Mountain started the price war three years ago by offering a season pass allowing four family members to ski for close to the price of one.

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And yes, they're concerned about ethanol or Yucca Mountain or the Iraq War, but they are also concerned about picking a horse that can win the presidency for their party.

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Even Google , which has set up a war room at its Mountain View, Calif.

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Even Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), which has set up a war room at its Mountain View, Calif.

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Issam - a 50-year-old owner of a large business - sends his wife to stock up on tinned food for their mountain house in fear of a possible war.

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But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found a new home for its files: A Cold War bunker, inside a Swedish mountain, that's been described as fit for a "James Bond" movie.

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While the author of the Magic Mountain talked about the complexity of time around World War I, in the 1990s time was compressed here.

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This loop also passes through the Sasso San Gottardo, a demilitarised tunnel that is part of a network of clandestine Swiss Army caves and tunnels built into the mountain and used as bunkers during WWII and the Cold War.

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In its life the engine has worked on the Foxdale mines, the Snaefell Mountain Railway and the line to the internment camp at Knockaloe during World War I.

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Nor will he land in Skene Manor on Skene Mountain in upstate New York, named for a Skene who was declared an enemy of the state in the Revolutionary War.

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