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Meghan Jensen of Mystic, Conn., is among 20 high school students competing in the National High School Recipe Contest in Denver, Colo. The students are vying for full scholarships to Johnson & Wales University. Jensen is competing in the dessert category. Her recipe is "Mystical Orange Berry Delight," a dessert in the shape of a sailboat and inspired by the Mystic Seaport area.

Kenneth Kamler, Md is a surgeon who also climbs mountains. He was team doctor on three expeditions to the top of Mount Everest, including the disastrous 1996 trip during which 6 people died. Kamler is both storyteller and advisor in his book, Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account including the 1996 Disaster. (The Lyons Press) Blackened limbs due to severe frostbite were the least of his troubles. I-V fluids are frozen solid, and abrasions cannot heal at such high altitudes. Kamler's day job is Director of the Hand Treatment Center in Hyde Park, New York, where he is a microsurgeon. He's done research on telemedicine for NASA and Yale Medical School.

The holidays are over, both on the calendar and on the pop charts, and that's great news for an assortment of beneficiaries.

"A Bar Song (Tipsy)" added another week atop the chart, making it the longest-running No. 1 of the decade. In two more weeks, it could tie the all-time record, but a seasonal juggernaut approaches.

Starliner's test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, should have returned by mid-June. NASA is weighing its options for returning the two, including a ride home in a rival SpaceX capsule.

A beginner skier was excited for their first run on the “real mountain” after a morning of practice at the base of Buttermilk. Kyle Blumberg, a quick study, said “falling is important to learning.”

This week on the pop music charts, a film soundtrack has done something that no other soundtrack had done in nearly 30 years.

The creative mind behind the recently released "Dogs of Aspen" photo series will fly in a helicopter over Aspen Mountain this month.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation into Musk for alleged obstruction.

The Aspen Skiing Co. celebrated its 75th anniversary on Tuesday. The company pegged the anniversary celebration to the official opening of Aspen Mountain’s original chairlifts, Lift One and Lift Two. That event was held Jan. 11, 1947. Tim Willoughby remembers how his uncle and father helped build the lifts, which began spinning Dec. 14, 1946.