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Article: The Golden Age Of Gear? What used to be good is increasingly great, from easy-turning beginner boards to race-ready rockets.(Fall Line: News And Notes Straight From The Slopes/What Now)
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- September 1, 2004
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Byline: Paul Hochman Joe Cutts
Ski manufacturers, with few exceptions, serve up the most impenetrable names in the sporting goods universe. What does "RX9 Railflex2" say to you? Does mere mention of the "i.XRC 1100 SW" give you goose bumps? As it happens, the new Fischer RX9 Railflex2 is one of the most thrilling long-turn carving skis ever made, and Head's iXRC 1100 SW is among the best boards to hit the snow in years. But their names look like faulty computer code and fail to convey the magic of today's gear. Skis, you see, have never been better.
SKI Magazine gear testers haven't ever seen a time--and that means you haven't either--when intermediate, ...
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Article: The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and ...
Canadian Journal of History;
December 1, 2002 ;
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... ... industrial supremacy in the so-called "golden age" between 1850 and 1870. It grew out ... The first section questions whether the golden age actually even existed, and the subsequent ... is not a celebration of this apparent golden age; rather many of the authors question ...
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