Italian investigators suspected excessive speed may have caused a snowmobile pulling a sled to crash on a ski slope last night.

意大利调查人员怀疑昨晚一辆拉着雪橇的雪地摩托由于超速撞上了滑雪坡道。

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Shows a bar graph that looks like a ski slope: user counts dipped down to just over 100, 000 in April, although the latest counts are in the 500, 000 range.

给我们呈现了一个滑雪坡道般的条形图：用户量在4月份降低到了10万，虽然最近的数据在50万左右徘徊。

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Dubai, one of seven members of the United Arab Emirates, gained a reputation for excess with the creation of man-made islands shaped like palms and an indoor ski slope in the desert.

迪拜是阿联酋七个酋长国之一，拥有人工修建的“棕榈岛”以及位于沙漠中的室内滑雪场，让其名噪一时。

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Organizers in Vancouver say the athletes will notice very little difference between a natural ski slope and the one that has been built for the games.

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The Russian authorities have launched an investigation after a man was killed during a ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball.

BBC: Russia investigates horrific 'zorb' ride death

Six Russian tourists have died and two others have been injured after their snowmobile flipped over on a ski slope in north-eastern Italy, reports say.

BBC: Italy: Russian tourists die in snowmobile accident

Plus the man who was once caught in an avalanche and now studies the maths of how they move by rolling ping-pong balls down a ski slope.

BBC: Quantifying economic success