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 offslope 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.
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.