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Article: Mogul mania: at a radical ski school in Aspen, a former Apple exec trains corporate types for the toughest slopes.(EXECUTIVE LIFE)(Bumps for Boomers)
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
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- December 1, 2004
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Sometimes a sport is transformed by a revolution in equipment design. It happened in tennis with oversize rackets, and in golf with titanium drivers. Over the past decade, it's also occurred in alpine skiing, with the advent of shaped, or side-cut, skis, which have an hourglass shape that makes turning much easier.
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Skis used to be straight and long. In their typical macho fashion, ski bums would joke over who could control the longest pair. But such locker-room humor diminished with the arrival of shaped skis, because they were much shorter than their predecessors. If you skied 195-centimeter skis 10 years ago, chances are you're ...